Curriculum Vitae Solomon Addis Getahun
ADDRESS: Central Michigan University Department of History 231 Powers Hall Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Telephone: (989) 774-3592 (Direct), (989) 774-3374 (through the Department) Fax (989) 774-1156 E-mail: [email protected] ------
EDUCATION: 2005 PhD., Ethiopian/African History, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, USA 1994. M.A., Ethiopian/African History, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 1985. B.A., History, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS 2014 Solomon A. Getahun and Wudu T. Kassu, Culture and Customs of Ethiopia, a Culture and Customs of Africa Series (Greenwood/ABC-CLEO, Feb. 2014) 2013 Joseph W. Scott and Solomon A. Getahun, Little Ethiopia in the Pacific Northwest (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2013) 2007 The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000: Patterns of Migration, Settlement, Survival and Adjustment (New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2007) 2006 A History of the City of Gondar (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006)
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS 2017 “Italy’s Ethiopian Mercenaries: The Forgotten Trinbuli,” International Journal of African Historical Studies. Vol. 51. Forthcoming. 2013 “Africans and African Americans from East Africa, 1940—Present,” in Elliott Robert Barkan (Ed.), Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration (ABC-CLIO, 2013), pp. 687-700. 2013 “Charting Refugee and Migration Routes in Africa,” in Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn (Ed.), International Handbook of Migration Studies (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 87-96. 2012 “A History of Ethiopia’s Newest Immigrants to the United States: Orphans,” Journal des Africanistes, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2011) pp. 185-200 2012 “Urbanization and the Urban Space in Africa/Ethiopia,” Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Volume XLV, December 2012, pp. 117-133.
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2012 “Ethiopian Immigrants,” in Ronald H. Bayor (ed.), Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012), pp. 657-701. 2011 “Sedät, Migration, and Refugeeism as Portrayed in Ethiopian Song Lyrics,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2/3 (2011), pp. 341-359. 2010 “Contemporary ‘Voluntary’ and ‘Forced’ African Migrations,” in Hakeem I. Tijani et al., (eds.) The African Diaspora: Historical Analysis, Poetic Verses, and Pedagogy (New York: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010), pp.189-208. 2009 " Ethiopia in the New Millennium: Issues of Democratic Governance," Forum on Public Policy (Summer 2009), pp. 1-18 2009 "A History of Sport in Ethiopia," in Svein Ege, Harald Aspen, Birhanu Teferra and Shiferaw Bekele, ed., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Trondheim, 2009), pp. 409-418 2007 “Determinants of Ethiopian Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970-2000,” in Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi (eds.) The Human Cost of African Migrations (New York: Routledge, an Imprint of Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2007), pp. 359-380. 2007 “Brain Drain & Its Impact on Ethiopia’s Higher Learning Institutions & the Military Academies between 1970s & 2000,” in Rubin Patterson (ed.), African Brain Circulation: Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 167-184. 2007 McAdoo, Young & Getahun, “Emerging Patterns and Characteristics of Parenting, Marriage and Socialization of Native African Americans, Contemporary African, and Caribbean Immigrants,” in Yoku Shaw-Taylor and Steven A. Tuch (eds.), The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Families in the United States (New York: Rowman Littlefield Press, 2007), pp. 83-116. 2006 “Brain Drain & its Impact on Ethiopia’s Higher Learning Institutions: Medical Establishments and the Military Academies between 1970s and 2000,” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Vol. 5, Issue 3 (2006), pp. 257-275. 2005 “The Evolution of Gondar’s Public Health College and Training Center: Che- Che-La from an Italian Consular Office to a Medical College,” Journal of Northeast African Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2001), pp. 77-104. 2003 “The History of Addis Alam,” in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. I (Wiesbaden: University of Hamburg, 2003), p. 91. 2002 “Brain Drain and its Effect on Ethiopia’s Institutions of Higher Learning, 1970s-1990s,” African Issues Volume 30, N0. 1 (2002), pp. 52-56. 1997 “Addis Alem: The Nucleus of Gondar (1630s-1970s),” in Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta (eds.) Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Kyoto,
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12-17 December 1997. In Three Volumes (Kyoto: Shokado Book Sellers, 1997), Vol. I, pp. 3-15.
Papers Presented and Conferences Attended 2018 “Emperor Tewodros in the Eyes of Generations of Ethiopians, 1960s to Present.” A paper presented at an international conference, Meqidela at 150, held at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, April 10-15, 2018. 2017 “Ethiopia and the Horn,” a paper presented at the “Ethiopia Today,” A Roundtable, International Center, Michigan State University, March 9, 2017. 2016 “Italy’s Ethiopian Mercenaries, the Forgotten Trinbuli,” presented at the International Conference: “The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1911-1924),” Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), between September 30 and October 1, 2016. 2015 Presented a paper, “The Beta Israel Experience in Israel,” at a panel organized to commemorate Martin Luther King’s Day, Eastern Michigan University (January 19, 2015) 2013 “Ethiopians in the United States and Israel: A Comparative Study,” A Brown-Bag Presentation, Jewish Study Center, Michigan State University, Monday, October 21, 2013 2013 “The Red Terror: The Family as Collateral Victims,” at the African Union Human Rights Memorial Project Consultative Meeting, 28-29 September, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (By invitation) 2012 “The Transformation of the Azmari, Liqa-maquwas, from the Despicable to the Admirable and sought after profession, “ at the International Azmari Conference at the Center for World Music (CWM), University of Hildesheim, Germany, January 6-8, 2012 2011 “The Independence of South Sudan and its Politico-Military implications in the Horn of Africa,” at the 54th Annual African Studies Association (ASA) Conference in Washington, DC in November 16-19, 2011 2011 “A History of the Red Terror in Gondar, 1977-1979,” at Violence in African and South-Asian history, held at Erasmus University, the Netherlands, November 11-12, 2011 2011 “Race in America: the Ethiopian Immigrant Experience,” at “Race, Gender, Culture: Creating Identities within Cross-cultural, Historical Contexts,” held at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, June 16 and 17, 2011. (By invitation) 2011 “The Jasmine Revolution and the Reaction of the Ethiopian Diaspora,” at Circuits and Connections: A Symposium on Africa and the African Diaspora, the University of California San Diego, May 26-May 27, 2011 (By invitation) 2010 “Ethiopian Secular Music, Migration and Memory, 1970s-2010s,” at Memory and Migration Conference, University of Vienna (Austria), May 19- 21, 2010 (By invitation)
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2009 "Religion and Gender: Predicaments of Ethiopian Jewish Refugee Women in Sudan," at Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry Conference, Gondar Ethiopia, November 5-8, 2009 2009 “A History of Ethiopian "Colonial Soldiers," the Trinbuli, in Italian North Africa, 1910s-1930s," at the XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2-5, 2009. 2009 " Ethiopia in the New Millennium: Issues of Democratic Governance," at the Oxford Roundtable, “Social Justice: Human Rights, Poverty and Financial Resources," Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England, July 19- July 24, 2009 (By invitation) 2008 “A History of the Trinbuli, Labor Migration from Ethiopia to the Italian Colony, Libya, between 1910s and 1930s,” at the 50th African Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 13-15, 2008. 2008 “Ethiopian Folk Music and its Portrayal of Migration & Refugeeism in the Ethiopian Society, 1930s to Present,” at the Radclieff Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), April 11-15, 2008. (By invitation) 2007 "Ethiopian Immigrant Soccer in America: A History of Identity Politics and Nationalism,” at the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, (2-6 July, 2007) 2007 “Reflection on Migration and Refugeeism as Depicted in the Ethiopian Popular Culture, Music,” at Popular Culture as a Means for Diasporic or Transoceanic Conversation Conference, the University of Texas, Austin, (March 30-April 1, 2007) 2006 “Ethio-Sudanese Relations and the Pattern of Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa (1970s-1990s), at Movement, Migration, and Displacement in Africa, African Diaspora Conference, at The University of Texas, Austin, March 24- 26, 2006. 2005 African Studies Association Conference, 48th Annual Conference, Washington, DC., November 17-20. 2005 American Historical Association, 119th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. January 6-9. 2001 Helped organize and chaired secession at the Diaspora Paradigms: New Scholarship in Comparative Black History, Michigan State University, Dept. of History, September 20-23. 2000 “Internal Ethnicity among Ethiopian Immigrants in U.S.” at the 43rd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15-19, 2000 2000 “Probable Causes of Tension within Ethiopian Marriages in USA” at the Social Science History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oct. 26-29.
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1999 "Probable Causes of Tension among Ethiopian Immigrant Families: The Case of Seattle" Looking Backwards; Looking Ahead: Sociology in the Next Millennium. The Michigan Sociological Association Annual Fall Conference 1999, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Oct. 16, 1999) 1999 “The History of Ethiopian Immigrants in the USA, 1970-1990s,” at the 42nd African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia. 1998 The 41st African Studies Association Conference held at Chicago, Il. Oct. 29- 31, 1998 1998 The Oromo Studies Association Conference, Seattle, Washington. July 23- 25, 1998.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: 2018 US Embassy, Cultural Affairs Office, Addis Ababa: Travel & Lodging Grant for an international conference, Meqidela at 150, held at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, April 10-15, 2018. 2016 The President’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavour, Central Michigan University, March 16, 2016. 2014 Fellow at the Schusterman Center for the Israeli Studies, Brandeis University (Boston) and Israel, June 16-July 10, 2014. 2012 Fulbright Scholar, Ethiopia (August 2012-July 2013) 2011 Recommended as a number one candidate for NEH grant by CMU 2007 The Provost Award for Junior Faculty Research, Central Michigan University (2007) 2006 Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors, Central Michigan University (Summer 2006) 2004 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University (Fall 2004) 2002 Fulbright Student Fellowship, Ethiopia (2002-2003) 2002 KCP (Kings-Chavez-Parks) Fellowship, Michigan State University (2002-2005) 2001 Summer Acceleration Fellowship, Michigan State University (Summer 2001) 1998 Minority Competitive Doctoral Fellowship, Michigan State University (1998- 2000)
VOLUNTARY SERVICE: 2018 Guest Speaker: “Gondar from Where to Where,” at Gondar Community Association, Columbus, OH, March 28-29, 2018. 2015 H-Horn of Africa, a reviewer for 2015 Guest Speaker on “The Italian-Ethiopian War of 1896,” at the Ethiopian Community Mutual Association, Dalas, TX (March 1, 2015) 2014 Guest Speaker on “The Italian-Ethiopian War of 1896,” at the Ethiopian Community Mutual Association, Chicago, IL (March 1, 2014) 2014 International Research & Exchange Board: Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative, a reviewer for 2014 University Professional Education Curriculum Committee (Member) 5
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2014 Guest Speaker: “The Implications of the Victory of the Battle of Adwa,” Ethiopian Community Mutual Association, Chicago, Il, March 1, 2014 2013 Department Graduate Studies Committee (Member) 2013 Served as a chairman and commentator for Fulbright Students from Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 2013. 2013 Guest lecturer: University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, April, 2012 2012 Guest lecturer: Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, October 2012 2011 Volunteer Judge: Michigan Historical Society, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 2006 African history, guest speaker, 10th grade history class, East Lansing High School, (Feb. 9) E. Lansing, MI 2006 Volunteer Judge: Michigan Historical Society, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 2005: Volunteer Judge: Michigan Historical Society, CMU, Mt. Pleasant, MI Feb. 27, 1998: University of Washington, Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology, on “The History of Ethiopian Immigrants in Seattle.” (Guest Speaker) 1998 University of Washington, African Studies Seminar, on “the History of Ethiopian Immigrants in Seattle.” April 2, 1998 (Gust speaker) 1997 Vashon Island, Great Decisions Group, on “Africa: A role for the US.” (Guest Speaker), Feb. 24, 1997 1996 Tutoring: Catholic Community Services of King County, Youth Tutoring Center, Seattle, WA. Tutored elementary and middle school bilingual students at Rainier Vista 1996-1997: Tutoring and editing Ethiopian Community Mutual Association (ECMA) newsletter; Counseling, interpreting and translating Amharic or English texts, ECMA, Seattle, WA 1986-1990 Red Cross Youth: Ethiopian Red Cross Society. Served as a Red Cross Youth Leader, organized and trained Red Cross Youth Clubs, gave First Aid services, organized and participated in Summer and Super Summer Comps, participated in relief and rehabilitation programs, rendered interpretation services to delegates from sister organizations of Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland.
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