Dr. Fikru Gebrekidan

Department of History
Associate Professor (2003)
BA (State University of New York at Buffalo), MA (Ohio University), PhD (Michigan State University)

Phone: 506-452-0509
email: fikrug@stu.ca


Courses Regularly Taught

History 1006 - World History
History 2003 - Exploring History
History 2113 - Intro to Northeast African History
History 2136 - Intro to African History
History 3573 - African in Global Context
History 3614 - Africa in World History
History 4516 - Themes in African History

Publications

Bond without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and New World Black Relations, 1896-1991 (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2004).

"'They Came Clutching the Cross': A Study of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Its Mission in the West Indies, 1935-1974," Journal of Ethiopian Studies 34, 2 (December 2001): pp. 5-34.

"Pan-African Dialectics: Ethiopia, Africa and the African Diaspora," in Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa, Melvin E. Page and others, eds. Boston: Boston University African Studies Center, 1998, pp.65-78.

"In Defense of Ethiopia: A Comparative Assessment of the Caribbean and African-American Responses to the Italo-Ethiopian War," Northeast African Studies 2, 1 (1996), pp.145-173.

Entry on "Rastafarianism" Encyclopedia of Black Studies (Sage Publications, 2004).

"Rastafarians in Ethiopia: The Promised Land or a Phantom," Ethiopian Register August 1998.

"Haile Selassie and Africa: A Forgotten Legacy," Ethiopian Review 4, 11 (November 1996).

"The Italo-Ethiopian War and the Racial Controversy over Japan," Addis Tribune June 11, 1999.

"Ethiopia and New World Blacks," (parts I and II) Addis Tribune July 23-30, 1999.

Areas of Research Specialization

Ethiopian history, modern African history, history of African nationalism, pan-African intellectual history, comparative black history.


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