Specialisation

1. Ethnohistory and socio-political structures of ethnic groups in Tigray / Ethiopia, western Ethiopia and Eritrea; History of the creation and development of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea (starting from mid-19th. cent.); Africa in the German History of Thought (Historical Anthropology); History of Euripean-Ethiopian relations; Political Anthropology and Legal Anthropology
   

Countries / ethnic groups

1. Tigrinnya-speakers (Habesha, Tegaru, Tigrigna); Afar; Bilén; Tigre etc. in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, northern Sudan
   

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Curriculum vitae

1. Since 2010 Associate Professor in Ethnohistory at the Mekelle University, Department of History and Cultural Studies, College of Social Sciences and Languages / Associated reaseach fellow at the Hiob-Ludolf-Centre for Ethiopian studies, Asia-Africa-Institute, Hamburg University
   

2. Guest lecturerships and guest professorships in France, Germany and Ethiopia (Professeur invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2007; Guest Lecturer / DAAD-Guest Professor in Meqele [Mäqälä] at Mekelle University, 2005, 2008, 2013/14; Hamburg, Bundeswehrakademie, 2008/09)
   

3. Since 1999 research fellow at the Asia-Africa-Institute, Hamburg University, within the DFG-project "Encyclopaedia Aethiopica", acting as Assistant Editor, since 2010 as Field Specialist; specialisation in Historical Anthropologie; field research stays (up to one year) in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and archive research in Egypt etc.
   

4. Abitur at the German School Paris (St. Cloud), 1988; student at the universities FU Berlin and Genf (MA in History of Philosophy and Humanities; Social Anthropology and International Law), and Hamburg (PhD, Research Unit Africa, Institute for Political Science), with field research stays in Tunesia (Sahara-Atlas), Eritrea and Ethiopia
   

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Academic Memberships

1. Centre français des études éthiopiennes, Addis Ababa (chercheur associé)
   

2. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV)
   

3. Vereinigung der Afrikanisten Deutschlands (VAD)
   

4. Centrum für Governance und Globalisierung (CGG), Universität Hamburg
   

5. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa (IES, associated)
   

Main Publications

1. Monographs – Author, Editor, Assistant Editor (Selection)
   

2. Academic Journal Editor
   

3. Main Articles (Selection)
   

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Small Series of Topics (Selection)

1. Medieval Arabic Inscriptions
   

2. Honorary titles in Ethiopian history
   

3. Minorities in Ethiopian society and history
   

4. Monetary History of Northeastern Africa
   

Co-Authorships (mostly shorter articles)

1. Stéphane Ancel; Asfa-Wossen Asserate; Alessandro Bausi; Dirk Bustorf; Sevir Chernetsov; Donald Crummey; Sophia Dege; Hatem Elliesie; Haggai Erlich; Eloi Ficquet; Alessandro Gori; Gerd Gräber; Habtom Gebremedhin; Wolfgang Hahn; Joachim Herzig; Steven Kaplan; Makeda Ketcham; Meaza Haile Revol-Tissot; Medhanie Admasu; Didier Morin; Muluwork Kidanemariam; Mussie Tesfagiorgis; Negaso Gidada; Chikage Oba-Smidt; Kevin O’Mahoney; C. Detlef G. Müller; Richard Pankhurst; Thomas Rave; Richard Reid; Hanna Rubinkowska; Tsegay Berhe; Wolbert K. Smidt; Estelle Sohier; Lothar Störk; Catherine Vanderhaeghe; Woldeyohannes Workneh; Yasin Mohammed
   

Co-Editorships

1. Abdelkader Saleh; Verena Böll; Eloi Ficquet; Nicole Hirt; Kinfe Abraham; Denis Nosnitsin; Thomas Rave; Evgenia Sokolinskaia; Rainer Tetzlaff; Burkhard Vogt; Kerstin Volker-Saad; Steffen Wenig