Anne Storch

Anne Storch
Born	(1968-09-16)16 September 1968 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Linguist
Academic work
Main interests	African linguistics

Anne Storch (born September 16, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the University of Cologne.

Career

Storch studied African linguistics, ethnology, and history at Frankfurt am Main.

From 1995 to 1999, she worked in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 268 Cultural Development and Language History in the West African Savannah Natural Area at the University of Frankfurt. As a doctoral student, she documented the Hõne language during several research trips to Nigeria. In 1999, she completed her PhD in African linguistics, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic Das Hone and his position in the Central Jukunoid. From 2000 to 2004, she held a junior professorship at the Institute for African Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt. Since 2004 she has been a full professor and member of the board at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne.

In addition to Nigeria, Anne Storch has completed research trips in Sudan and Uganda.

From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the Germany-wide African Studies Association. From 2014 to 2016 she was also President of the International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics..

In 2017, she was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation.

In 2018, Storch was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Scientific focus

Anne Storch's work focuses on Benue-Congo (especially Jukun), Atlantic, West Nilotic, comparative African studies and typology. In doing so, she examines in particular how the specific reality of life affects the respective language. Recently, for example, she has been concerned with the language acquisition and language use of African migrants in the Balearic Islands, who as street artists or other service providers in turn absorb and use linguistic elements of the tourists holidaying there.

• Die Anlautpermutation in den westatlantischen Sprachen. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, Sondernummer 2, 1995, ISBN 978-0-00937-303-9
• Das Hone und seine Stellung im Zentral-Jukunoid. (Dissertation), Köppe, Köln 1999, ISBN 978-3-89645-107-1
• Forthcoming. Tourism and Discourses on Ruination (with Angelika Mietzner)
• Magic and Gender (with Sabine Dinslage). Köppe, Köln 2000, ISBN 978-3-89645-108-8
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (with Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig). Köppe, Köln 2004, ISBN 978-3-89645-006-7
• The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic. Köppe, Köln 2005, ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2
• Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa. Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19976-902-5
• Repertoires and Choices in African Languages. (with Friederike Lüpke) De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-1-61451-194-6
• A Grammar of Luwo. An Anthropological Approach. (Culture and Language Use Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam 2014, ISBN 978-9-02720-295-6

References

• "Prof. Dr. Anne Storch". afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. Universität zu Köln, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie. Retrieved 2016-12-08.