David Huenlich, Ph.D.
David Huenlich, Ph.D.
David Huenlich is a linguist whose research bridges language documentation and historical inquiry. He studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned an interdisciplinary PhD in Germanic Studies and Linguistics in 2016 under the supervision of Hans Boas and Jacqueline Toribio. He subsequently worked at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, contributing to a project evaluating the integration of refugees into the German labor market.
In 2022, he was awarded a DAAD scholarship to document the lives of Black German speakers in Texas, conducting his research through the History Department at Texas A&M University with Walter Kamphoefner. That same year, he began teaching German, linguistics, and Texas German history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
He has since returned to Germany, where he lives with his family of five and continues his research on German minority communities in the Americas at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Bavaria.