About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Jean-Nicolas Bach holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies/Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux, France: “Centre, Periphery, Conflict and State Formation since Menelik II: The Crisis of and within the Ethiopian State,” 2011. He is currently Associate Researcher at Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux. His main research interest concerns state formation and party cleavages in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.
Pierre Guidi is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at CEMAF (Centre d’études des mondes africains/Center for the Studies of African Worlds). In addressing the dynamics of schooling at the crossroads of socio-histories of education, knowledge, and power practices, his research focuses on the production and reception of educational policies in Ethiopia since 1941.
Grover Hudson, Professor of Linguistics, emeritus, Michigan State University, is a specialist in Ethiopian linguistics, with publications including Highland East Cushitic Dictionary (1989), Essentials of Linguistics (2000), Essentials of Amharic with Anbessa Teferra (2007), Northeast African Semitic (forthcoming 2013), and numerous articles and reviews in phonology and fields other than Ethiopian linguistics. He worked and lived in Ethiopia for several years including as a U.S. [End Page 231] Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia (1963–1965) and on the faculty of Haile Sellassie University, Addis Ababa (1969–1971).
Simon Imbert-Vier is Historian, Research Fellow at the Centre d’études des mondes africains (CEMAF) in France. He published an Amharic manual (L’Harmattan, 1996) and a study about territorial and identity formations around Djibouti (Karthala, 2011). He is currently involved in projects about situation coloniale, Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway social history, African boundaries (Frontafrique) and the history of migration walls.
Christine Matzke teaches English and African literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her areas of academic specialism are African theatre, particularly drama and performance in Eritrea, and post-colonial crime fiction. Recent publications include contributions to African Theatre 9: Histories 1850–1950 (ed. Yvette Hutchison, 2010), and New Theatre Quarterly 27 (2011).
Clémence Pinaud is a PhD candidate in History at the Université Paris 1 Sorbonne in Paris, concentrating on the impact of war on women in South Sudan. She has undertaken research in various places (the Philippines, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone) and spent two years in South Sudan, where she worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as a lead investigator for a multi-agency survey on protection and gender-based violence issues. She has been a Fulbright fellow and visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Elena Vezzadini is a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religion, and Cultural Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her current article is part of a broader research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council on the construction of racial categories in colonial Sudan. She earned her PhD in History at the University of Bergen in 2008 and her work focuses on various aspects of the social history of colonial Sudan.
Keren Weitzberg is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, California. She is currently completing her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Richard Roberts and Dr. Sean Hanretta, which is entitled “The Promise of a Borderless World: Empire, Diaspora, and the Kenyan Somali Population (1890–2010).” [End Page 232] This dissertation, which spans the precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras, examines how the encounter between British colonial officials and Somali subjects in Kenya unintentionally produced a diaspora. Her next project will examine the history of climate change in the borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.
Brian J. Yates is Assistant Professor of History at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, and is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and University of Illinois, where he earned his PhD in 2009. He has published articles in the International Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Black Studies, and The Journal of Oromo Studies. Yates is presently working on a book manuscript entitled The Other Häbäsha: The Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia. [End Page 233]
