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Brigitte Pakendorf
Linguist and biological anthropologist (born 1970)
Brigitte Pakendorf (born 1970)[1] is a South Africanlinguist and geneticist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).[2]
Education
After receiving her MA in biological anthropology in 1996, Pakendorf studied for two doctorates: one in biology, one in linguistics.
She received the former in 2001 from the University of Hamburg and the latter in 2007 from the University of Leiden.[3] This second thesis brought together her interests in dealing with contact in the prehistory of the Sakha, or Yakuts, from both linguistic and genetic perspectives.
It received the 2008 prize for the best dissertation in linguistics defended at a Dutch university, awarded jointly by the Dutch Association for General Linguistics (AVT) and Association for Applied Linguistics (Anéla).[3][4]
Career and honours
From 2006 to 2012 Pakendorf was leader of a Max Pl