Helena Funk
Graduate School Student
Helena Funk is a current M.A. candidate in African Studies (Leipzig University, Germany), and an Exchange Scholar at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) in 2018/19.
Her planned M.A. thesis examines diverse language use and its cultural implications in the middle-class of Nairobi, Kenya. She will conduct field research in Nairobi, analyzing language use and identity within the growing Kenyan middle-class. Her research interests cover Cultural Sociology, Analysis of Social Structures, Urban Studies, Sociolinguistics and Swahili Studies.