Professor bahru zewde biography
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Education
Bachelor, Haile Sellassie I U., 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, U. London, 1976.
Career
From assistant professor to professor, Addis Ababa U., since 1981. Son of Walda-Hanna and Bobas (Adanech) Zewde. In addition to serving as Editor of the Journal of Ethiopian Studies for 15 years, he was member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of African History and founding Editor of the Africa Review of Books.
His prizes and awards include: the British Council Scholarship, 1972-1976; British Academy Fellowship, June-September 1983; French Government research grant, July-September 1986; Japan Foundation Fellow, January-March 1991; USIA and NEH Visiting Scholar, Boston University, July-September, 1991; Visiting Fellow, St. Cross College and St.
Antony's College, Oxford University, Michaelmas Term 1992; Golden Jubilee Award for "diligence, exemplary conduct and outstanding contribution", Addis Ababa University, 11 December 2000; Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, October 2010-July 2011; Founding Fellow and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences since 2010.
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Children: Kaleb Bahru, Tseyon Bahru.- Father:
- Walda-Hanna Zewde
- Mother:
- Bobas (Adanech) Zewde
- Spouse:
- Messenbet Shenkute
- child:
- Tseyon Bahru Zewde
- child:
- Kaleb Bahru Zewde
The AAS
As Chairperson of the Department of History of Addis Ababa University, Prof Zewde fostered a vibrant tradition of annual departmental seminars and co-organised two Eastern African History Conferences as well as starting a collaborative research project on Ethiopian land tenure with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Director Institute Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, 1993-1996.
Chair department history Addis Ababa U.,1982-1986.
Achievements
Bahru Zewde has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
Works
Membership
Member Association Ethiopian Historians (president since 1995).
He is the recipient of numerous awards and Fellowships, including ones from the British Academy, Japan Foundation, the Institute of Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin and Humboldt University.
Background
Zewde, Bahru was born on January 18, 1947 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa. Visiting associate professor of University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1992.
He was formerly Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University and Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, a think tank based in Addis Ababa. As Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, he led a number of policy research projects, raised its culture of policy dialogue to the highest level as well as organizing the first international conference on civil society. He participated in a number of CODESRIA research networks and has been editing its journal, Africa Review of Books, since 2004.
As Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Prof Zewde directed a SSRC-funded project for the compilation of a Catalogue of Clandestine Literature in Ethiopia, initiated the South Omo Research Center, and convened the Adwa Centenary International Conference in February-March 1996.
Bahru Zewde, currently Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, is Founding Fellow and founding Principal Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
1960-1974 (2014). Member Association Ethiopian Historians (president since 1995). He has also served as a Consultant for a number of organizations, including Carnegie Corporation of New York, the African Union and African Child Policy Forum.
Bahru Zewde
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Bahru Zewde, Ethiopian Historian, educator.
Prof Zewde has supervised scores of theses and dissertations and mentored a number of young historians and authored four books, edited or co-edited eight others and published dozens of articles. He has also served as Vice President of the Association of African Historians and Resident Vice President of the sub-regional research network, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), and as Editor of its journal, Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review.
His major publications in English include: Bringing Africa Together: The Story of Ethiopian Airlines (1988); A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855-1991 (2001); Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century (2002); Society, State and History: Selected Essays (2008); and The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c.
Connections
Married Messenbet Shenkute, October 25, 1986.