Lutz Marten#
| Membership Number: | 6831 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/lutz-marten |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2289-5701 |
| Twitter: | @LutzMarten |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutz-marten/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 to date Professor of General and African Linguistics, SOAS University of London
- 2020 - 2023 Head of the Doctoral School, SOAS University of London
- 2020 - 2022 Member of HEFCE REF2021 Sub-panel 25 Area Studies
- 2015 - 2019 Director of the London Confucius Institute, SOAS University of London
- 2015 - 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS University of London
- 2011 - 2014 Member of HEFCE REF2014 Sub-panel 27 Area Studies
- 2011 - 2012 Head of the Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London
- 2008 - 2010 Co-Director, Capital-L London HEFCE Routes into Languages Consortium
- 2006 - 2010 Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS University of London
- 2002 - 2012 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, SOAS University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Area studies
- Bantu languages
- African languages
- Comparative and historical linguistics
- Swahili
- Linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 SOAS #SAAW Award in recognition of contribution to supporting students
- 2020 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- 2017 Project Lead, HEFCE Catalyst Grant to SOAS for ‘Safeguarding UK provision in strategic and vulnerable languages of Africa, Asia and the Middle East’
- 2014 A W Mellon Visiting Fellowship, Centre for African Language Diversity, University of Cape Town
