Anne Storch (born 16 September 1968[1] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the University of Cologne.
From 2000 to 2004, she held a junior professorship position at the Institute for African Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt.
Since 2004, she has been a full professor and member of the board at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne.
Anne Storch's work focuses on Benue-Congo (especially Jukun), Atlantic, West Nilotic, comparative linguistics, typology, and sociolinguistics.
Recently, for example, she has also studied language acquisition and use among African migrants working as street artists and other tourism-related occupations in the Balearic Islands.