Curriculum Vitae

Education

2016-
PhD candidate in the department ‘Integration and Conflict’ and 'Anthropology of Politics and Governance'
2009 – 2011
MA in Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University
2005 – 2008
BED in History at Arba Minch University

Fieldwork experiences

2011
Conducted ethnographic fieldwork for Master’s thesis in Jawi district, Northwestern Ethiopia
2016 – 2017
PhD fieldwork in Hamar district, South Omo, Ethiopia

Professional appointments

2015 – 2016
Director of the South Omo Research Center (SORC)
2013 – 2015
Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Arba Minch University
2008 – 2010
Assistant lecturer, Department of History and Heritage Management, Arba Minch University
2010 – 2011
Associate Lecturer, Department of History and Heritage Management, Arba Minch University
2011 – 2016
Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Arba Minch University

Conferences and Workshops

2019
"Contested Terrains: Conservation of Wildlife and Local Livelihoods in the Mago Valley", workshop at the Washington State University, Vancouver, USA
April 17
2018
"Reckless Herders and Ruthless Investors, Cases from Hamar District, Southern Ethiopia at Transformations and Visions: Responses, Alternatives, and Resistance to Large-scale land deals in the Global South", workshop jointly organized by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Gottingen University, Germany,
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
May 23-25
2015
"Intra – regional Resettlement and Inter-ethnic Relations in Jawi Woreda, Northwestern Ethiopia", paper presented at the Second National Conference of Social Science, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
April 16-17
2012
"Livelihood Diversification among the Konso People" at Cultural Diversity and Heritage Management, Arba Minch University, jointly organized with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism,
June 15-16