Agnes Korn

**A. Education and Degrees** • Habilitation (degree Privatdozentin) in Comparative Linguistics at [Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.](https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de), Germany (2010) • Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Comparative Linguistics (Indo-European Linguistics) from [Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.](https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de), Germany (2003) • Master (Mag.a phil.) in linguistics (Indo-European linguistics) from [University of Vienna](https://www.univie.ac.at), Austria • Studies: Indo-European studies and linguistics in [Hamburg](https://www.uni-hamburg.de) (Germany) and [Vienna](https://www.univie.ac.at) (Austria) **B. Positions held** • since 2015: Researcher in linguistics at the French national research institute CNRS; member of the research unit [CeRMI](https://cermi.cnrs.fr) (Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien, UMR 8041) • 2009-2015: Senior researcher at the projects “Documentation of Bashkardi” and “Western Iranian Dialectology”; Department of Empirical Linguistics, [Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.](https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de), Germany • 1998-2009: Researcher in Comparative Linguistics, [Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.](https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de), Germany • 1996-1998: Researcher at the project edition of dictionary material by Uto von Melzer; Department of Linguistics, [University of Graz](https://www.uni-graz.at) / Austria • 1996-1997: Freelancer for the Iranian department of the [Austrian Academy of Sciences](https://www.oeaw.ac.at) • 1995-1996: Lecturer for German as a foreign language, Faculty of Economics, [Univerzita Mateja Bela](https://www.umb.sk), Banská Bystrica / Slovakia • 1994-1995: Freelancer for PHILIPS DICTATION SYSTEMS GesmbH, Vienna: phonetic transcriptions for dictation software **C. Prizes and Awards** • European Award of Iranian Studies (2007) of the [Societas Iranologica Europaea](http://www.societasiranologicaeu.org) for the PhD thesis • Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (2008) of the [Minerva Foundation](https://www.minerva.mpg.de) • Visiting Fellow at [Clare Hall](https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk) and Visiting Member at [Jesus College](https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk), University of Cambridge (2015) **D. Teaching** Iranian languages and linguistics; Indo-European studies, ancient IE languages (historical grammar and text analysis); Introduction to general linguistics; German as a Foreign language Full list of courses on [TITUS](https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/agnes/courses.htm) **E. Editorial Boards** • [*Beiträge zur Iranistik*](https://reichert-verlag.de/buchreihen/sprachwissenschaft_reihen/sprachwissenschaft_beitraege_zur_iranistik) (Reichert, Wiesbaden): Series editor (since 2021); • [*Leiden Studies in Indo-European*](https://brill.com/display/serial/LSIE) (Brill, Leiden): Member of the editorial board (since 2023); *• Encyclopædia Iranica*: Consulting editor (since 2018); • [*Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum*](https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/research-at-soas/journals/books/iranicarum/) (SOAS & British Academy): Member (since 2020) Journal boards: • [*DABIR*](https://brill.com/view/journals/dbr/dbr-overview.xml) (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review); • *[Iranian Journal for Applied Language Studies](https://ijals.usb.ac.ir/)*; • [*Abstracta Iranica*](https://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/) (responsable for linguistics, since 2017) **F. Research Topics** Historical linguistics; Comparative linguistics and Typology; Relations among the Iranian languages; Historical Grammar of Persian; Description and Documentation of Iranian minority languages, particularly Balochi and Bashkardi.