Tsehai Berhane-Selassie (Brandeis University)

Submitted:  Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:05:09 EST


Tsehai Berhane-Selassie
Assistant Professor
Brandeis University
International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life

Mail address:
268 River Street, Apt. 4
Cambridge, Massachusetts  02139 USA

phone:  (617) 441-0602
fax:    (617) 441-2547
e-mail: tsehaibswh@aol.com


2000-2001   Fellow, Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, 
New York.

1999 to present   Visiting Scholar, International Center of Ethics,
Justice and Comparative Studies, Brandeis University.

1998-99   Madeleine-Hass Assistant Professor of Comparative and
Non-Western Studies, African-American and African Studies Department,
Brandeis University.


Education:

1981  D.Phil. in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K.
Dissertation: "The Political and Military Traditions of the Ethiopian
Peasantry, 1800-1941."  Advisor: Professor Wendy James.

1976  Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K.
(Equivalent to M. Phil.)

1969  B.A. in History from Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa
University), Ethiopia.


Teaching and research interests:

Anthropology of gender, development and the environment; Politics, nation
formation, ethnicity and the state; war, peace, and displaced and
cross-border forced migrant populations.


Recent Articles: 

1999  "Tabita Hatuti: Biography of a Potter Woman" in _Ethiopia:
Traditions of Creativity_, Raymond Silverman (ed), Michigan State
University.

1997  "The Politics of Womanhood in Occupational Inequality" in
_Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meaning of Feminism in
Contemporary Politics_, Joan Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates,(ed).
Routledge.

1997  "Ethiopian Rural Women and the State" in _African Feminism: The
Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa_, Gwendolyn Mikell (ed).