Hirut Woldemariam
Name: Hirut
Father’s name: Woldemariam
Grand father’s name: Teketel
Education attended:
- B.A. Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 1988
- M.A. Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 1993
- PhD. Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany & Addis Ababa University, 2004
Academic rank: Associate Professor, 2008
Working for AAU: Since 1996
Administrative positions held:
- Vice President for Institutional Development, April 2012-October 2014
- Vice President for External Relations, Strategic Planning and Partnership, January 2010-April 2012
- Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, 2008-2010
- Head, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Addis Ababa University, 2006-2008
Community services:
- Member of the National Council for Great Renascence Dam of Ethiopia
- Member of the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/African Union 50th Anniversary
- Member and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Ethiopian Philological Society.
- Member of the Executive Committee, Academy of Ethiopian Languages
- Associate Member, Ethiopian National Association for the Deaf (ENAD)
- Member of the Advisory Board for The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (CMDR)
- Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Linguistic Landscape
- Collaborating member, Center for Multilingualism in Societies Across the Lifespan, Oslo
- Member of the Review of Panel for Volkswagen Foundation, African Initiative Project
Address:
Campus: Main
Building: College of Social Sciences
Floor: Third
Office room no.: 312
Phone: 0911506623
Email ID: hirut.woldemariam@aau.edu.et
Alternative email: hirutw@hotmail.com
Research interest
Omotic languages are my focus area of research. Descriptive linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics are main areas of interest. Other research interest includes language policy, multilingualism, language ideology and linguistic landscape in Ethiopia.
