since 10/2024
Academic staff member at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz
since 07/2024
Academic staff member Coordination & Curation in the BMBF-funded joint project “Counterhegemonic Voices in Music Archives” (JGU Mainz)
04/2023; 09/2023 – 06/2024
Graduate assistant in the subproject B02 “Contouring and blurring of linguistic human differentiation” of the CRC 1482 “Human Differentiation” (JGU Mainz)
04/2022 12/2022
Graduate assistant in the DFG project “Microvariation and Youth Language Practices in Africa” (JGU Mainz & University of Essex)
04/20-04/2021
Academic staff member at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz
03/2020
Master’s degree in African Studies, University of Cologne (Thesis: Constructions of authenticity in heritage tourism in northern Uganda)
01/2018 03/2020
Graduate assistant (WHB) with Prof. Dr. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, African Studies Cologne
02/2017
2-subject Bachelor of Arts in Languages and Cultures of the Islamic World and Languages and Cultures of Africa, University of Cologne
To Appear. Language and Hospitality. In Hilary Nesi & P. Melin (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics,3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
2025. With Nico Nassenstein. Afterword: Hospitable Linguistics. Thoughts on current directions. In N. G. Faraclas, A. Storch & V. Velupillai (eds.). Hospitable Linguistics. Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters, pp. 316-324. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
2024: “They look hostile from afar”: Language ideologies and representations of ‘Northernness’ in Uganda. In A. Hollington, A. Mitchell & N. Nassenstein (eds.). Anthropological Linguistics. Perspectives from Africa, pp. 202-222. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jan Knipping
Room 00-665
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-39-22779
E-mail: j.knipping@uni-mainz.de

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