MA, Literature, Addis Ababa University, 2003.

PhD, Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University, 2011.

• June & July, 2015: Logos in Oxford
• September – November, 2012: Collegeville Institute Resident Scholar Program and HMML
• July – September, 2012: “Preserving the Written Heritage of East Gojjam: A Rich Culture in
  Jeopardy”, funded by Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library.
• October 2010 – March 2011: “Preserving the Lay Bet andemta: a Rich Culture in Jeopardy”,
  funded by Endangered Archives Program of the British Library Museum
• May 15 – June 15, 2010: Heckmanstiepiend (St. Johns University, Minnessota)
• February 2001: French Center of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa), Exhibition and Seminar
  titled ‘The Ethiopian Church Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’.
• August – October 2003: Forschungstelle Äthiopistik, Hamburg, Germany – Research Visit at
  the University of Hamburg, ‘Andemta as an Interpretative Strategy’, M.A. Thesis submitted to
  Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa.
• 2006 – Fritz – Thyssen foundation, Andemta inventory in European Libraries and Museums.
  January 2008 – Forschungstelle Äthiopistik, Hamburg, Germany – Photo Exhibition titled ‘Im
  Namen Marias: Traditional Ausbildung In Äthiopien’, Hamburg University.
• April 2006 – 2010: Deutschen Akademichen Austausch Dienst (DAAD).

• November 2013 – 2017: Member of the International Consultants to the
  Book Project titled, Songs of Africa: The Ethiopian Canticles lead by Thomas C. Oden under
  the Green Scholars Initiative.
• Logos Fellow since 2015

• Worked as Editor in Chief of Hamar Magazine (1998 – 2005)
• Editor of the Proceedings of the EOTC Yesterday – Today and Tomorrow

1. Articles

• “Mälkəʾa Sämaʿətat Zä Däbrä Libanos: Text with Annotated Translation”Rassegna di Studi  Etiopici, vol. ? (Nuova Serie), Istituto per L’Oriente C.A. Nallino (Roma) Università degli Studi di Napoli – «L’Orientale», Roma-Napoli, 2017, pp. in press
• “Orature on Literature:The Case of Abba Gärima and His Gospel” Aethiopica 19 (2016), 1-11.
• “Regularity and Uniformity in the Ethiopian Hagiographical Tradition: a Particular Focus on
  Narrating the Childhood of Saints” Aethiopica 18 (2015), 143-160.
• “Towards a Glossary of Ethiopian Manuscript Culture and Practice,” Aethiopica 14 (2011), 145–

1. Book Chapters

• “Ethiopian Christian Music and Dance: Zema and Aqwaqwam”in: Tom Oden, Ed., The Songs of Africa: Ethiopian Canticles, New Haven:Institute for Classical Christian Studies Press, 164-175.
• “The Ascendancy of the Canticles in Daily Life, Worship, and Festivals”in: Tom Oden, Ed., The Songs of Africa: Ethiopian Canticles, New Haven:Institute for Classical Christian Studies Press, 176-182.

• Reviews
• Review of Petros S. Berga, «What Happened to the Original Christian Unity in Ethiopia?
  Towards the Restoration of Our Original Unity in Christ». In Aethiopica 10(2007), p. 266 – 268.

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