Rebecca Grollemund

Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri.

You can download a copy of my full CV here.

Actual Position

2016 – Pres
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri, Columbia MO

Education

2012
Ph.D. in Linguistics
Title: Nouvelles approches en classification: Application aux langues bantu du Nord-Ouest
Université Lyon 2, France / Laboratoire ‘Dynamique du Langage’, CNRS

2006
Master in Linguistics
Title: Les Okande du Gabon, locuteurs d’une langue en danger (langue bantu du groupe B30)
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Previous employment

2012 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Evolutionary Biology Group, University of Reading, UK
www.evolution.reading.ac.uk
Supervisor: Mark Pagel

2009 – 2012 Research Assistant
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon, France)
CLHASS project, (Contribution de la Linguistique à l’Histoire de l’Afrique Sub-Saharienne).
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/clhass
Supervisor: Jean-Marie Hombert

2006 – 2009 Teaching Assistant in Linguistics
Lyon 2 University (Lyon, France).
Courses Taught: General linguistics and French Linguistics.

Awards and Research Grants

2022-2025
NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) “Continuity and divergence in Cameroonian languages: New perspectives on the Bantu genesis”. Co-Pi with Guanyu Hu (University of Missouri, Department of Statistics).

2016-pres
University of Missouri Honors College, ASH Research Teams
Project “Documenting Luyia together”. $22,000 per year (total $110,000)

2022-2023
Tri-Continental Partnership (3CP), project “Understanding African migrations through the study of specialized vocabulary” ($5,000)

2022-2023
Provost’s Jr. Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award ($1,000)

2022-2023
The A&S Research Fellowship Program (course release)
Project: “Phonological innovations support new Bantu migration routes“

2018-2019
University of Missouri Research Leave
Project: “Reconstructing Historical Migrations in Sub-Saharan Africa” ($6,000)