Education

McMaster University, MacPherson Institute 2025

Teaching & Learning Certificate of Completion Program 

PhD, Linguistics                                                                                          2021

University of Brighton, UK

Concentrations: Sign language linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Iconicity, Gesture, Multimodality, Multilingualism, Language Contact, Language Change, Event Representation

Dissertation: Iconicity as a pervasive force in language: Evidence from Ghanaian Sign Language and Adamorobe Sign Language

Supervisors: Prof. (Dr.) Pamela Perniss, Prof. Sherman Wilcox, Dr. Tim Wharton

MA, Linguistics                                                                                           2015

University of Bergen, Norway

Concentrations: Modern Grammatical and Semantic Theory, Experimental Psycholinguistics, Statistical Methods

Thesis: We speak with our hands and voices: Iconicity in Adamorobe Sign Language and Akuapem Twi (Ideophones)

Supervisor: Prof. Øyvin Andersen

BA, English and Linguistics (First Class)                                                    2012

University of Ghana

Thesis: Some Aspects of the Ghanaian Sign Language Morphophonology

Supervisor: Dr. George Akanlig-Pare