Ethan Key

Ethan Key is a PhD student in the History Department at Boston University. He specializes in African history, especially the Horn of Africa. His advisor is Dr. James McCann. His dissertation research focuses on the relationship between worldviews in western Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during the period of this region’s incorporation into the Ethiopian Empire. These worldviews include Orthodox Christianity, Protestant Christianity, Islam, and Waaqeffannaa (traditional Oromo worldview). Before joining Boston University, Ethan received a master’s degree in world history from Georgia State University. There, he wrote a thesis that focused on Onesimos Nasib, his life, and his work in translating the Bible into the Oromo language. Email: ekey@bu.edu