Expertise
Modern Ethiopian Social History, African History, World History, Eurocentrism, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Intellectual History
Biography
My research interests are in the areas of social, cultural, and intellectual history. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in African, world, and comparative history. I have published books dealing with modern Ethiopian history, Eurocentrism, and intellectual history of Edward Wilmot Blyden. I am currently working on a book project dealing with the "national question" in Ethiopia. In my research and teaching, I draw from interdisciplinary appraches to the study of history.
Selected Publications
Books:
- The Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1896-1974 (Red Sea Press , 1995).
- Hegel and Anti-Semitism (University of South Africa Press, 2008).
- Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History (Syracuse University Press, 2011).
- Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination (University of Rochester Press, 2012).
Selected Articles:
- “Modernity, Eurocentrism, and radical politics in Ethiopia, 1961-1991. “African Identities, Vol. 6, No. 4 (November 2008): 345-371. Reprinted in, Ethiopia in Transit: Millennial Quest for Stability and Continuity, 31-58 ( Routledge, 2011).
- “Ethiopia: The ‘Anomaly’ and ‘Paradox’ of Africa.” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (March 1996): 414-430.
- “On the Question of Feudalism, Absolutism, and the Bourgeois Revolution.” Review, Fernand Braudel Center, Volume, XIII, Number 1 (Winter 1990): 49-152.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- Turning Points in Human History: The Modern World
- Introduction to African History
- History of East and Central Africa
- Southern Africa: A History
- World History
- History of Slavery in Africa
- Topics in African History
- Topics in Comparative History
- African Diaspora
- Comparative Slavery
- Imperialism, Race, and Empire in Modern History
Graduate:
- Studies in African History
- Introduction to World History
- New Themes in the History of Slavery
- Introduction to Third World History
- Seminar in African History