ASC welcomes Professor Michael Woldemariam as the new Director of the African Studies Center

We are very excited to welcome Professor Michael Woldemariam as the new Director of the African Studies Center. Professor Woldemariam’s teaching and research focus is on African security studies, with emphasis on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa. Prof. Woldemariam’s scholarly work has been published in the journals Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies. His book, Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and Its Discontents, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018. During the 2020-21 academic year, Prof. Woldemariam served as an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. 

We would like to extend a huge thank you to former ASC Director (2009-2017) Professor Timothy Longman for serving as Interim Director over the course of the last year.The staff and faculty greatly appreciated and benefited from his experience and guidance, especially in such an unprecedented academic year.