Name :                                   Kassaye

Father’s  name:                     Begashaw

Grand Father’s name:                     Ayalkbet

Education attended:           

1. BA, History, Addis Ababa University, 1978
2. Post Graduate Diploma, Museology, UNESCO Centre for Museum Studies, Nigeria ,1980
3. MA, Archaeology, Universitè De Paris I – Panthèon Sorbonne, 1990
4. M.A. Art History
5. Ph.D. Archaeology.
6. International Certificate in African Archaeology, University of Burxelles – 1989

Academic rank :  Asst. Professor

Working for AAU since 1993

Administrative position held: Head, Archaeology Unit, College of Social Sciences

Community service :  President Tourism Education for higher Institutions

Address

Building: Main Campus

Floor  number: 2^nd

Office room no: 223

Tel: 0911 60 59 12

E-mail id:       kassaye.begashaw@aau.edu.et

Research interest:

• Islamic Archaeology
• Heritage Management and Development
• Museum and Community
• Tourism and Development

List of Recent publications:

Kassaye Begashaw,“Museum Collections”, International Conference on Connections: Communities and Communities Miami – Florida, USA July 2006

__________,“Heritage Management for Africa in the 21^st century,” 4^th Congress of Association of African Historians Addis Ababa, May 2007.

_________, “The Archaeology of Islam in North East Shoa”. XV International Conference of Ethiopian Studies.  Trondheim, Norway, July 2007

_________, “Opportunities and Challenges of Archaeological Research in Africa in the 21^st Century,  East African Association of Paleoanthropology (EAAp) First Biannual Conference, Nairobi, July 2007

_________, Opportunities and Challenges of Archaeological Research in Ethiopia”.  International Conference on Paleoanthropology, Paleontology, and Archaeology in Ethiopia.  Addis Ababa, January 2008.