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Institutional Responsibilities

Since October 2019

Director of Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION /European University Viadrina/ Frankfurt (Oder)

Since 2007

Professor of Linguistics (Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Romance Languages), Faculty of Social
and Cultural Sciences/ European University Viadrina/ Frankfurt (Oder)

2013 – 2016 Director of the binational research project connecting the TSU, Georgia with EUV and
the Univ. Bielefeld on the topic The impact of current transformational processes on
language and ethnic identity: Urum and Pontic Greeks in Georgia
(funded by VWStiftung / Between Europe and the Orient: together
with Stavros Skopeteas, Univ. Bielefeld)

2009 – 2014

Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Social and Cultural
Sciences/ European University Viadrina/ Frankfurt (Oder)

2001 – 2005 Director of DAAD network project ProAlar (Germany and Argentina) “Discourses
and Discourse Traditions”
1999 – 2003 Director of DAAD network project ProBral (Germany and Brazil) Towards a Reconstruction
of the Language History of Brazilian Portuguese / PHPB)