Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics

Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Cristine Severo is an Associate Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and a CNPq national Fellow. 

Ashraf Kamal Abdelhay is an Associate Professor in the programme of Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). He holds a PhD in the field of sociolinguistics from the University of Edinburgh. He was an ESRC Research Associate in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and a Research Fellow of Clare Hall College, both at the University of Cambridge, UK. His current research interest is on southern language ontologies and decolonial discourses of language policy. He co-edited: African Literacies: Ideologies, Scripts, Education (with Kasper Juffermans and Yonas Asfaha, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014); Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities and Semiotic Spaces of Power (with Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020); The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South: Decolonizing the Language of Scholarship and Pedagogy (With Makoni, Severo, and Anna Kaiper-Marquez, Routledge, 2022); Shads of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics (With Makoni, Severo, Kaiper-Marquez, and Višnja Milojičić, Multilingual Matters, 2023); Sociolinguistics of Protesting (Two Volumes, with Makoni and Severo, De Gruyter, 2025); Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning: Decolonial Theories and Practices (with Makoni, Severo, and Alissa J. Hartig, Multilingual Matters, 2026). He serves in the editorial boards of some journals in the field including the International Journal of the Sociology of Language; Language Policy; and Applied Linguistics. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Language and Linguistics at Cambridge Publishing Scholars.

Anna Kaiper-Marquez is the Director of Family Literacy, National Center for Families Learning, USA.

Višnja Milojičić is a doctoral student in the Department of Applied Linguistics, a research assistant for the Global Virtual Forum, and a tutor for the KAUST program at Pennsylvania State University, USA.