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Professor Uju Anya Biography, Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Family, Nationality, School, Net Worth, Children

Professor Uju Anya is an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Uju Anya Biography, Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Family, Nationality, School, Net Worth, Children

She started trending worldwide after Billionaire Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos slammed her for wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” death.

Where is Uju Anya from?

Uju Anya is from Nigeria. Her father is a Nigerian.

Professor Uju Anya Biography:

Dr. Uju Anya is a university professor and researcher in applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies primarily examining race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in new language learning through the experiences of African American students. Her other areas of inquiry include applied linguistics as a practice of social justice and translanguaging in world language pedagogy. She currently teaches and conducts research as an associate professor of second language acquisition at the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Modern Languages.

What tribe is Dr. Anya Uju?

Dr. Anya Uju is from the Igbo tribe in South-Eastern Nigeria.

 

Professor Uju Anya Education, School

Professor Uju Anya graduated from Darthmouth College in 1998, B.A, Romance Language.

In 2001, she graduared from Brown University after studying Brazilian studies.

In 2011, she got her Ph.D., Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Uju Anya Awards:

2020 Penn State College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award
2019 American Association for Applied Linguistics First Book Award
2019 ACTFL/Middlebury Research Forum Invited Scholar
2015 USC Rossier School of Education Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award
2010 Dartmouth College Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship
2010 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (declined)
2008 Centro Latino for Literacy Manos Amigas Volunteer of the Year Award
2007 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at UCLA
1999 Irene Diamond Fellowship for Graduate Study at Brown University
1998 Phillips Academy Andover Spanish Teaching Fellowship

Dr. Uju Anya Career, Books Published

Dr. Uju Anya is faculty in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. She teaches and conducts research in critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, new language learning, and critical race and discourse studies as associate professor of second language acquisition. You can read her full career journey here.

Professor Uju Anya Age, Father, Family, Networth, Nationality, Children, Husband

Dr. Uju Anya is a Nigerian-born US Professor. Her father is a Nigerian from the Igbo tribe.

Not much about her personal life is known at the moment.

What does Uju Anya teach?

Uju Anya is a lecturer in the department of Modern Languages.

Where does Uju Anya teach?

Uju Anya lecturers at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. The institute has distanced itself from the statement made by professor Uju Anya regarding Queen Elizabeth II of England.

Uju Anya Languages | Polygon

Uju Anya is fluent in 7 languages. She speaks Igbo, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and French.

Watch a video of her participating in the Polygon challenge below.

 

READ: US University Reacts As Nigerian Professor Wishes Queen Elizabeth ‘Excruciating’ Death

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