Iman Nick, President, Co-Founder,  Treasurer, & Webmaster

Professor Iman Nick is a US American sociolinguist and former lecturer in the English Department at the University of Cologne. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics (University of Freiburg: Germany), a MA in German Linguistics (University of Washington-Seattle: USA), a BA in German Language and Literature (University of Maryland: USA),  a BSc in Clinical and Social Psychology (University of Maryland: USA), and a MSc in Forensic and Investigative Psychology (University of Liverpool: UK). In the Summer of 2010, she was awarded the German post-doctoral degree, the Habilitation, for her research in English Linguistics. In her capacity as a university lecturer, she regularly teaches graduate courses in Forensic Linguistics, English Dialectology, Multilingualism and Language Policy, and Statistics. Aside from her teaching duties, she also serves as a linguistics journal editor and reviewer. From 2014 to 2016, she was the elected Chair of the Committee for Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL) for the Linguistic Society of America. She is currently the Immediate Past President of the American Name Society (ANS) and the Editor-in-Chief of NAMES, one of the world’s oldest and foremost scholarly journals for onomastic research. Within Forensic Linguistics,  her particular areas of interest include suicide letter analysis as well as the statistical investigation and detection of criminal aliases. Her most recent publication examines the aliases used by  Nazis and their victims during and after the Holocaust: Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany (ISBN: 978-1498525978).