Masters Research (1979 to 1983)
Master of Literary Studies — University of Queensland, Australia
Thesis: An Introduction to Rabaul Creole German (Unserdeutsch)
Fieldwork in East New BritainTeaching Experiences (1980 to 1986)
English teacher, — Aiyura and Passam National High Schools, Papua New Guinea
English teacher at boarding schoolPhD Research (1987 to 1994)
PhD student — University of Hawai’i
Dissertation: Nalik Grammar (New Ireland, Papua New Guinea)
Fieldwork in New Ireland, Papua New GuineaAcademic Position (1989 to 1991)
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Language and Literature — Goroka Teachers College, University of Papua New Guinea
Taught classes in English, and drama and supervised student training practicaAcademic Position (1991 to 2012)
Professor — Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Japan
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Linguistic research and classes in South Pacific Studies and intercultural communication. Supervised students’ study trips to Papua New Guinea and AustraliaCollaborative Project (2009)
Unserdeutsch— a documentary South Seas Fairytale — KUNST-SToFF and Goethe Institute, Germany
Linguistic advisor to a dramatic production that was performed at the Languages Without Borders Festival in Berlin and elsewhere in northern Germany and NetherlandsAcademic Position (2010 to Now)
Adjunct professor — James Cook University, Australia
The Cairns InstituteAcademic Position (2013 to 2015)
Professor of Linguistic Research — Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic research (2015 to 2017)
Tok Pisin and South Pacific sociolinguistics — Faculty of Languages and Literature, University of Bremen, Germany
Taught intensive Tok Pisin courses and seminars in South Pacific sociolinguistics over three separate sessionsCollaborative Project (2015)
The Tale of the Coconut — Filmgestalten Berlin, Germany
Linguistic and cultural advisor to the making of the first children’s movie in a Papua New Guinea indigenous languageConsulting Work (2017 to Now)
Director (Linguistics) — Education Projects International, Kalispell, Montana, USA
New Ireland school textbooksAcademic Position (2017 to 2018)
Jakob Fugger Visiting Professor — University of Augsburg, Germany
Taught Tok Pisin class, seminar in the German language outside Europe, language policy seminar, and engaged in collaborative research into Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German) (2017)
Intensive Tok Pisin — Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Fünf Kontinente Museum, Munich, Germany
Intensive Tok Pisin course in the Institute of Social and Cultural AnthropologyAcademic Position (2020 to 2022)
Visiting Professor — Faculty of Letters, Kansai University, Japan
Taught classes in language policy and conducted collaborative research on the translation of Bahā’ī Scripture into Tok Pisin and JapaneseTeaching Experiences (2020)
Visiting professor — Dept of English, University of Bern, Switzerland
Intensive Tok Pisin courseField Research (2022)
Skulls from New Ireland in Übersee Museum Bremen, Germany — Übersee Museum Bremen
Provenance research in Papua New Guinea of decorated skulls at the Übersee Museum in Bremen, GermanyCollaborative Project (2023)
Neumecklenburg — Übersee Museum Bremen, Germany
Ethnographic collections from the German Colonial period in “Neumecklenburg”, a collaborative project between New Ireland and the Übersee Museum, Bremen, Germany |
