Berhane-Selassie Tsehai

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	Brandeis University
Email	tsehaibswh@aol.com
Mailing Address	Brandeis University International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life 268 River Street, Apt. 4 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (617) 441-0602 fax: (617) 441-2547
Countries of Specialization	Ethiopia
Education	1981 D.Phil. in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K. Dissertation: "The Political and Military Traditions of the Ethiopian Peasantry, 1800-1941." Advisor: Professor Wendy James. 1976 Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K. (Equivalent to M. Phil.) 1969 B.A. in History from Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa University), Ethiopia.
Research Interests	Anthropology of gender, development and the environment; Politics, nation formation, ethnicity and the state; war, peace, and displaced and cross-border forced migrant populations.
Teaching Interests	Anthropology of gender, development and the environment; politics, nation formation, ethnicity and the state; war, peace, and displaced and cross-border forced migrant populations.
Publications	1999 "Tabita Hatuti: Biography of a Potter Woman" in _Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity_, Raymond Silverman (ed), Michigan State University. 1997 "The Politics of Womanhood in Occupational Inequality" in _Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meaning of Feminism in Contemporary Politics_, Joan Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates,(ed). Routledge. 1997 "Ethiopian Rural Women and the State" in _African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa_, Gwendolyn Mikell (ed).
Keywords	politics ; nation-building ; ethnicity ; peace ; gender ; African feminism