CAS Lecture Series: Identity History from Below: An Ethnographic Account of Wollo-Borena in Ethiopia

Coming from Ethiopia, where he is an Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Wollo University, Dr. Yemiamrew Jorgi Teferi is a visiting Scholar at the Council on African Studies in the Macmillan Center, Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, an M.A. in Multicultural and Multilingual Education, and a B.A. in Amharic Language and Literature. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research on the political cultural construction of regional identity and peoplehood with particular focus on an ethnically and religiously heterogenous Ethiopian province called Wollo. He also taught several courses in Anthropology, Language and Folklore, Music, and Education including “Anthropology of Education” to Yale students during the 2024 fall semester.