{"id":17497,"date":"2020-05-10T00:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T04:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17497"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:07:14","slug":"michael-woldemariam","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/profile\/michael-woldemariam\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Woldemariam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Michael Woldemariam is Director of the African Studies Center and an associate professor of International Relations at Boston University\u2019s Pardee School of Global Studies. He also serves on BU\u2019s graduate faculty of Political Science and is a faculty affiliate at the African Studies Center.\u00a0 He previously worked as a research specialist with Princeton University\u2019s Innovations for Successful Societies program, and held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC and Penn State\u2019s Africana Research Center.\u00a0\u00a0Woldemariam\u2019s teaching and research interests are in African security studies, with a particular focus on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa. Woldemariam\u2019s scholarly work has been published in the journals <\/span><em>Nationalism and Ethnic Politics<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Terrorism and Political Violence,\u00a0Journal of Strategic Studies,\u00a0<\/em><span>and the<\/span><em>\u00a0Journal of Eastern African Studies.\u00a0<\/em><span>His popular essays have appeared in outlets such as\u00a0<\/span><em>Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy<\/em><span>, and\u00a0<\/span><em>Current History<\/em><span>.\u00a0His first book,\u00a0<\/span><em>Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and Its Discontents<\/em><span>, was published with\u00a0<\/span><em>Cambridge University Press\u00a0<\/em><span>in 2018.\u00a0In addition to his scholarly work, Woldemariam has consulted with a wide variety of international organizations, primarily on issues related to politics, governance, and\u00a0security in the Greater Horn of Africa region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19093,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17497\/revisions\/19093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}