Harrison Rotimi Adeniyi
EMAIL: harrison.adeniyi@lasu.edu.ng
PHONE: 08054734205
ADDRESS: Department of Lingusitics and African Languages, Lagos State University, Ojo.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Travelling
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2019
POST HELD: None
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: N/A
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: Lagos State University, Ojo
SPECIALTIES: Linguisitcs-Language Documentation, Phonology
APPOINTMENTS: National President, The Linguistic Association of Nigeria. Secretary/Treasurer, African Languages Teachers Association of America.
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: Faculty of Arts, LASU and Institute of African Studies, University of Georgia Collaboration. Afro-Brazilian Studies and Faculty of Arts, LASU
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Chairman, Technical Committee of National Language Policy for Nigeria.
Biography
Professor Harrison Adéníyì has PhD in linguistics from the University of Ìbàdàn, teaches linguistics and Yorùbá at the Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. He was a former Dean of Arts, LASU and currently the President, Linguistic Association of Nigeria. A visiting Professor at the University of Vermont, Burlington, USA both in 2011 in 2016; a visiting scholar at the Osaka University Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka, Japan in 2010 and also a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.in Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006; Fall 2007, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015 and Fall 2016. He is an External Evaluator/Yorùbá Language Assessor for the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Intensive Yorùbá Group Project Abroad since 2010. He is currently the Chairman, National Technical Committee on the development of a National Language Policy for Nigeria. He is a fellow, NALRC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, in 2003, a fellow of the African Studies Institute, UGA, Athens, USA in 2003 and also a fellow, NALRC, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He is currently serving as the Secretary/Treasurer of African Languages Teachers Association of America and a Council member of the West African Linguistics Society.
