About

Rahel [ra'ɛl] is an author, freelance Web Designer, Graphic Designer and doctoral researcher in Linguistics at the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki.

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Her creative work spans from photography and video editing to digital design, writing and science communication.

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In February 2024 she published her first children's ebook Yael's Whimsical Quest: Heritage Uncovered, available on Amazon (Kindle), Google Books, Lulu and Kobo.

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She recently started a YouTube channel called The Stories' Eater where she shares her fieldwork experience as an independent researcher and her passion for stories in a broad sense.

On Redbubble you can find her photographs and designs.

On Ko-fi you can support her work and shop for her digital products. 

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She joined an Italian community of expat women, as an author of blog posts regarding her experience as an expatriate in Finland. You can find it here at Donne che Emigrano all'Estero (written in Italian).

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Rahel is interested in sustainability, making informed decisions to fight climate change by taking small daily actions.

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Academia

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Recent academic experience: Visiting scholar at LLACAN (CNRS Villejuif, Paris) awardee of a Labex EFL scholarship, September-December 2022.

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Her BA thesis focused on analysing and collecting loanwords from Italian, English and French into Amharic. During her MA studies, her interest in Afroasiatic languages increased: her thesis was a study on situatives in Somali and Amharic, through the innovative Constructive Adpositional Grammars (CxAdGrams) framework. Her current project is a typological study on singulatives in Cushitic languages. 

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