Schilde, Woldemariam Promoted to Associate Professor
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University would like to congratulate Kaija Schilde and Michael Woldemariam on their recent promotions to Associate Professors of International Relations. The promotions were approved by the President and Provost of Boston University.
“I am delighted to congratulate Kaija Schilde and Michael Woldemariam on their tenure and promotions to Associate Professor,” said Pardee School Dean Adil Najam. “They have been prolific and productive members of our faculty, and I wish them both long and distinguished careers full of accolades and, of course, carrying the Pardee flag high and proud.”
“I would like to thank my colleagues for their support and for creating a wonderful environment for teaching, research, and scholarship at the Pardee School,” Schilde said.
“I’m deeply grateful to my colleagues at the Pardee School and throughout the university for their support,” Woldemariam said. “The Pardee School has been a fantastic place to grow as both an educator and a researcher, and I look forward to helping to take this institution to new heights in the coming years. More than anything, I’m excited about the opportunities that lay ahead.”
“Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented women and men develop from promising junior faculty into teachers and scholars of national impact and recognition,” said Boston University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Jean Morrison in her announcement of the promotions.
Schilde studies the political economy of security and transatlantic security, focusing on issues related to European defense industry policy, spending, and technology, as well as migration, trafficking, and border security. She has published a book, The Political Economy of European Security (2017), along with three book chapters and several articles in leading international relations journals. She is a recent recipient of the Pardee School’s Gitner Family Faculty Excellence Prize. You can learn more about her here.
Woldemariam is a scholar of African politics, focusing on the dynamics of armed conflict, the behavior of rebel organizations and self-determination movements, and post-conflict institution building – largely within the Horn of Africa region. A frequent presenter at international conferences, he has authored a book, Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and Its Discontents (2018), as well as two book chapters and four articles in premier international relations publications, and is a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project in Washington, D.C. You can learn more about him here.