Founder & Director, International Scholars Alliance · Fargo, ND
I have lived and worked across Germany, Switzerland, Poland, and the United States, teaching languages, studying them, and questioning the systems that govern them. My research spans language, migration, identity, higher education policy, and the politics of knowledge, with a growing focus on AI, epistemic justice, and what it means to build equitable academic spaces for scholars on the move.
I am an educator and researcher in Applied Linguistics and Education, and the Founder and Director of the International Scholars Alliance — a nonprofit initiative supporting early-career, multilingual, and internationally mobile scholars through mentoring networks, writing support, and capacity-building programs based in Fargo, ND.
From 2023 to 2025, I served as an Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where I led a Horizon Europe–funded research project on higher education, language policy, and international mobility. In 2024 I held a visiting scholar position at the Mercator European Research Centre (Fryske Akademy, Netherlands).
My research focuses on applied linguistics, multilingualism, international and comparative education, identity, migration and mobility, and power. I examine how language functions as a site of social reproduction, resistance, and transformation — in classrooms, institutions, and across borders.
I hold a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Master's degrees from the University of Mainz (Germany). I am a certified secondary school teacher and have taught German, English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish across multiple countries and educational levels.
Founder & Director
International Scholars Alliance · Fargo, ND (Oct 2025–present)
Assistant Professor & Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (2023–2025)
Ph.D. Education · University of Fribourg, 2022
M.A. Second Language Studies · University of Mainz, 2016
M.Ed. Teacher Education · University of Mainz, 2016
B.Ed. Teacher Education · University of Mainz, 2014
Applied linguistics · Multilingualism · Language policy · Identity, migration & power · Linguistic justice · EMI · International & comparative education · Autoethnography · Visual methods
German · English · Portuguese · French · Italian · Spanish