Prof. Dr. Dr. Aleida Assmann
Languages, Historical anthropology of the media, generations in literature and society, conceptions of humanity, the history of reading, writing and memory
Languages
Baltic Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Comparative Philology
History of the Baltic languages, Old Lithuanian texts, Early Baltic religion, Indo-European languages, Sound change and Phonology, Ancient DNA and prehistoric migrations, Baltic and Slavic word formation and nominal compounds, Baltic and Slavic accentology, Language contact around the Baltic Sea.
Young Elite Researcher Award, awarded by the Danish Independent Research Councils
Young Leaders Fellowship, awarded by the Sasakawa foundation
Award from the FAIES association at UCLA.
Awarded the university gold medal by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for my dissertation
English
External researcher on the project “Roots of Europe – Language, Culture and Migrations” (Centre of Excellence), University of Copenhagen. 2008 – 2013.
Research grant awarded by the Danish Councils for Independent Research within the Elite Research Initiative. Title of project: Noun Formation in the Baltic Languages. 2007 – 2010.
Research grant awarded by the Carlsberg Foundation. Title of project: Noun Formation in Indo-Iranian. University of Copenhagen. 2004 – 2007.
Member of the Young Academy of Sweden / Sveriges unga akademi. The academy was established in 2011 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien)
Chair of the Young Academy of Sweden, 2015 – 2016
Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies / Östersjöstiftelsen
Member of the Board of Directors of the Special Doctoral Programme in Language and Linguistics at Stockholm University
Member of Humtank
Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Baltic languages, Finnish and German at Stockholm University, 2009 – 2015
Deputy Head of the Department of Baltic languages, Finnish and German at Stockhom University, 2010 – 2014
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Languages, Historical anthropology of the media, generations in literature and society, conceptions of humanity, the history of reading, writing and memory
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Languages, Syntactic theory
Languages, Neuro-linguistics