TITLE: Privatdozent Dr. phil. habil.
NAME: Gerald Heusing
POSITION: Associate Professor and DAAD-Lecturer
SPECIALISATION: African and German Linguistics
EDUCATION:
Institution & Location | Degree | Completion Date | Field of Study |
University of Hamburg, Germany | M.A. | 05/1992 | African Linguistics |
University of Hamburg, Germany | Dr. phil. | 04/1997 | African Linguistics |
University of Leipzig, Germany | Dr. habil. | 01/2003 | African Linguistics |
PERSONAL STATEMENT:
As a dedicated linguist, my academic journey has been driven by a deep curiosity for the cultural and linguistic diversity of the African continent. My research and teaching experiences across Germany, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Nigeria have strengthened my commitment to understanding and preserving African languages, while fostering cross-cultural dialogue by teaching German Studies across different sub-Saharan African countries. Besides research and teaching, I am a specialist of higher education management, especially regarding tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa and relations between higher education institutions in sub-Saharan Africa and Germany. As such I worked as DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Resident Representative in Uganda (as well as in Nigeria now), Director of the DAAD Information Centre in Ethiopia and Senior Consultant at the DAAD head office in Bonn/Germany. I have also worked as an international election observer for the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and as Senior Expert for the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
POSITIONS, SCIENTIFC APPPINTMENTS, AND HONOURS:
1988-1990
Student Assistant (»Studentische Hilfskraft«)
Department of African Studies
University of Hamburg
01.05.1992 31.07.1995
Assistant Lecturer (»Lehrbeauftragter«) and Academic Tutor (»Akademischer Tutor«)
Department of African Studies
University of Hamburg
01.05.1992 31.01.1993
Lecturer (»Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter«)
Department of African Studies
University of Hamburg
18.10.1993 31.07.1995
Lecturer (»Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter«)
Department of African Studies
University of Hamburg
01.08.1995 30.04.1997
Lecturer (»Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter«)
Department of African Studies
University of Leipzig
01.05.1997 30.04.2003
Assistant Professor (»Wissenschaftlicher Assistent«)
Department of African Studies
University of Leipzig
01.10.1997 20.12.1997
Visiting Lecturer
Institute of Languages (Subject of African Linguistics)
Makerere University Kampala (Uganda)
01.05.2003- 30.11.2006
Associate Professor (»Wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent«)
Department of African Studies
University of Leipzig
01.12.2006-30.06.2011
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Languages (Subject of German)
Makerere University Kampala (Uganda)
01.12.2006-30.06.2011
Resident Representative of the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
Kampala (Uganda)
01.07.2011- 30.04.2013
Project Manager “Ethiopian University Reform”
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Bonn
01.05.2013 – 31.07.2019
Director of the DAAD Information Centre
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
01.05.2013 – 31.07.2019
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Philology (African
Linguistics)
Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
01.08.2019 – 30.11.2019
Expert
Department of Knowledge Exchange and Network
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Bonn
since 01.12.2019
Associate Professor
Department of European Languages and Integration
Studies (German and Integration Studies)
University of Lagos (Nigeria)
since 01.12.2019
Resident Representative of the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
Lagos (Nigeria)
SELECTED MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE:
- Aspects of the Morphology Syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages: A Cross Linguistic Study of Fulfulde, Igbo, Lamang, and Mupun. Hamburg: Lit.
- Die südlichen Lwoo-Sprachen: Beschreibung, Vergleich und Rekonstruktion. (NILO SAHARAN Series, Vol. 19.) Köln: Köppe.
- »Eine Sprache namens Gartenabfall: Über Sondersprachen in Afrika«. In: Streck, Bernhard (ed.), Die gezeigte und die verborgene Kultur, 39-52. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- Anteneh, G. and Heusing, G. Case Morphology in Majang. In: The Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies (EJSSLS) Vol. 4 No. 2: 3-25.
- »Empaako, the Magic Word: A Special Form of Address Used in Western Uganda«. In: Multilingual Margins: A Journal of Multilingualism from the Periphery, 9 (1): 50-60.
COLLABORATORS/NETWORKS
- Prof. Ekkehard Wolff, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Prof. Rainer Vossen, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
- Prof. Manuel Muranga, Kabale University, Uganda
- Prof. Zelealem Leyew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Prof. Victor Dugga, University of Lafia, Nigeria
