• researcher (Project: The Mouth - an open-access journal for decolonizing the publication culture in African Studies, DFG)
• co-editor of The Mouth journal

• Sociolinguistics
• Anthropological linguistics
• Social semiotics
• Ethnomusicology
• Post- and decolonial studies
• Youth language practices
• Consciousness and agency in communicative practices
• Linguistic creativity
• Creole languages
• Bantu languages
• African-Caribbean relations
• Linguistic biographies
• Kiswahili Studies
• Linguistic landscapes
• Epistemologies and knowledge production

• 2014 PhD African Studies (University of Cologne)
• 2010 MA African Studies, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics, English Studies (University of Cologne)

   

• since 07/2024        researcher in African Studies, University of Cologne
• 12/2021 - 06/2024    Postdoc researcher at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz in the project “Microvariation and youth language practices on Africa” (DFG/AHRC), University of Mainz
• 04/2020 – 03/2021    Postdoc researcher at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne
• 01/2020 – 03/2020    Fellow in the project “Recalibrating Afrikanistik” (Volkswagen Foundation), University of Cologne
• 04/2010 – 03/2020    associate Lecturer at the Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne
• 01/2019 – 12/2019    associate researcher at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
• 04/2014 – 12/2018      Senior researcher (Postdoc) at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
• 12/2016 – 10/2017    Speaker of the Research Area “Communicative Repertoires” at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
• 02/2014 – 03/2014     Postdoc researcher at the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne
• 11/2013 – 01/2014     Research assistant in the DFG-project “Die Marakwet-Sprachen (Süd-Nilotisch): Deskription und Vergleich“ (“the Marakwet languages (South-Nilotic): description and comparison“) at the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne
• 05/2010 – 09/2010     Research assistant at the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, collaboration in the preparations for a CRC-proposal “Migration of Ideas”

March/April 2021

• Communicative Repertoires of Protest (Workshop as part of the Recalibrating African Studies Spring School Popular Culture and Arts in Africa, University of Bayreuth)

WS 2019/2020

• Language ecologies in Africa and the Caribbean: local practices and translocal entanglements (University of Cologne)

SS 2017

• Family, children and pregnancy in the field (workshop as part of the summer school The Gendered Ethnographer: Social Relations, Vulnerability and Power Dynamics in the Field, University of Cologne)

WS 2016/2017

• Global Reggae (with Martin Ringsmut, University of Cologne)

SS 2015

• Swahili 1 (language course, University of Cologne)
• Swahili 2 (language course, University of Cologne)
• Jugendsprachen in Afrika (with N. Nassenstein, University of Cologne)

WS 2014/15

• Anthropological Linguistics (University of Cologne)
• Swahili 1 (University of Cologne)
• Swahili 2 (University of Cologne)

SS 2014

• The African Heritage in the Caribbean (University of Cologne)

SS 2013

• Sprache und Identität in Afrika (with N. Nassenstein, University of Cologne)

WS 2012/2013

• Jugendsprachen in Afrika (with N. Nassenstein, University of Cologne)
• Sprichwörter in afrikanischenSprachen (University of Cologne)

SS 2012

• Sprache und Identität in Afrika (with N. Nassenstein, University of Cologne)

SS 2011

• Transkription afrikanischer Sprachen (with D. Richter gen. Kemmermann, University of Cologne)

WS 2010/2011

• Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen (University of Cologne)

SS 2010

• Medienforschung (University of Cologne)

SS 2009

• Tutorium Bambara für Fortgeschrittene (Bambara language tutorial, University of Cologne)

WS 2008/2009

• Tutorium Swahili (Swahili language tutorial, University of Cologne)

• 2024 - 2027    The Mouth - an open-access journal for decolonizing the publication culture in African Studies" (DFG)
• 2021 - 2024    Microvariation and youth language practices in Africa (DFG, AHRC)
• 2018 - 2020    Member of the international research network An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Diversity and Dynamics of Swahili Varieties (JG University Mainz and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 2014 – 2018    Communicative Repertoires of Transnational Connections in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe (GSSC, University of Cologne, DFG Excellence initiative)
• 2010 – 2013    African Cultural Conceptualizations in Jamaican (Dissertation project, funded by a.r.t.e.s. and daad, University of Cologne)

Publications Andrea Hollington