University of Michigan Flint

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Department of Africana Studies
University of Michigan-Flint
346 David M. French Hall
303 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48502-1950

Phone: (810) 762-3353
Fax: (810) 766-6719

Guluma Gemeda

Biography

Guluma Gemeda is an Assistant Professor of African and African American History. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He has taught at Addis Ababa University and Northern Michigan University. His research is focused on the social and economic history of coffee in Ethiopia.

Teaching

Dr. Gemeda believes in interactive teaching. He likes to engage students in discussions and promote critical thinking. He believes good personal relationship between the instructor and the students is crucial for student motivation and better learning.

At University of Michigan - Flint, Dr. Gemeda teaches:

AFA/HIS 230 African History to the 1870s
AFA/HIS 231 Africa in modern Times
AFA/HIS 335 The History of the Africanas
AFA/HIS 338 Topics in Africana History
AFA 320 Contemporary East African History
AFA 322 The History of West Africa and the Atlantic World
AFA 396 Topics in African Studies

Publications

"Land, Agriculture and Social Class Formation in the Gibe Region, from the mid-nineteenth century to 1936," in State, Land and Society in the History of Sudanic Africa, edited by Donald Crummey (in press).
"Political Domination and Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Oromia (Ethiopia): From Menilek to Meles," Journal of Oromo Studies, V: 1&2 (1998).
"Conquest and Resistance in the Gibe Region, 1881-1890s," Journal of Oromo Studies, III: 1&2 (Winter/Summer, 1996).
"Some Aspects of Agrarian Change in the Gibe Region: the Rise and Fall of Modern Coffee Farmers, 1948-1976," in New Trends in Ethiopian Studies, edited by Harold G. Marcus, Lawrenceville, NJ., The Red Sea Press, 1994.
"The Islamization of the Gibe Region, Southwestern Ethiopia from the 1830s to the Early Twentieth Century," Journal of Ethiopian Studies, XXVI:2 (December, 1993).
"Subsistence, Slavery and Violence in the Lower Omo Valley, Ca. 1898-1940s," Northeast African Studies, XII:1 (1990).
"An Outline of the Early History of Jimma Town," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Seminar of the Department of History, Addis Ababa University, 1989.
"Markets, Traders and Long Distance Merchants in Southwestern Ethiopia during the Nineteenth Century," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, 1988.
"Some Notes on Food Crop and Coffee Cultivation in Jimma and Limmu Awrajas, Kafa Administrative Region (1950s to 1970s)," Proceedings of the Third Annual Seminar of the Department of History, Addis Ababa University, 1986.
"The Process of State Formation in the Gibe Region: the Case of Gomma and Jimma," Proceedings of the Second Annual Seminar of the Department of History, Addis Ababa University, 1984.

Book Review

Mohammed Hassen, The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), reviewed in the Journal of Ethiopian Studies, XXV (November, 1992).

Professional Affiliation

Dr. Gemeda is a member and an active participant in African Studies Association, the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, and the Oromo Studies Association. Currently, he is serving as Secretary of the Oromo Studies Association.