Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye (Professor)

PERSONAL DETAILS

  • Full Name:Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye (Ph.D.)
  • Academic Rank: Professor
  • Office Address: History and Heritage Management Department
  • Mobile Number:+251 918765047
  • E-mail address:teme_baye@yahoo.com 

EDUCATION

  •  DOCTOR OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY, University of South Africa, 2015
    DISSERTATION:  Land Rights and   Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia: The Case of Gojjam, 1941-75
  • HIGHER DIPLOMA, Certified Professional Teacher Educator in Higher Education, Bahir Dar University, 2008.  MASTER OF ARTS IN HISTORY, Department of History, Addis  Ababa University, 2005
    THESIS: Resistance  against  the  Ethiopian  Revolution  in  Ethiopia:  The  Case  of  Gojjam,1975-78, MA Thesis, Addis Ababa University, 2005
  • BACHELOR OF EDUCATION IN HISTORY, Department of History, Bahir Dar University, 2001
     SENIOR ESSAY (BA THESIS): Peasant Uprising in Bichena and Motta Sup-Provinces, 1968-69, Bahir Dar University, 2001
  • DIPLOMA IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Department of Library and Information Science, Addis Ababa University, 1994
    HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE, Abrha-Woatsbha Secondary School, 1990

 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  • 995-1998: Teacher, North Gondar Education Department.
  • Since 2001  employed bythe Bahir Dar University (Department of History) – first as a graduate Assistant, since 2001 Assistant Lecturer, since 2005 as a Lecturer, since 2010  as an Assistant Professor, and since 2015 as an Associate Professor.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENTS AND LEADERSHIP

  • Member, Potential Assessment, Identification of Opportunities, and Designing Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development of Tourism and Transport in Lake Tana and its Environs, 2012
  • Member, Amhara History Project, 2006-7
  • Member, Gender and Land Institute, CODESRIA, Dakar, 2014
  •  Member,  “History  and  Tourism  Development  of  Fenoteselam  Town,”  under  Zenebe Urban  Planning  and  Development  PLC  and  Amhara  Region  Urban  Development Institute, 2008
  • Member, Property  Right  and  Forest  Ownership  in  Zege  and  Tara  Monastery:  Its Implication to Local  Livelihoods and the Environment (SIDA Funded)
  •  Community Tourism in Fragile Environment for Sustainable Livelihoods in Northwestern Ethiopia,2013-14
  •  Member, African Civil Wars, Rand Corporation,2010
  • Ph.D. Programme  coordinator, 2015-Present
  • Course Chair, African History Courses, 2010-Present
  • Chair, 2nd History National Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2015
  •  Member, 3rd History National Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2016
  •  Member, 4th History National Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2017
  • Member, community services hosted by the History Department,  Bahir Dar University, 2018-2029
  • Member, archive  and manuscript center project,2019-present
  •   Chair, History Department, Bahir Dar University, 2007

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, OSSREA, 2013-Present
  •  Member, CODESRIA,2014-present

     PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  1. Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye. “Property Rights and Their Implications on Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: A History,” Ethiopian Journal of Economics. Vol. XXVII (2018
  2. ______________________.Muslims in Ethiopia: History and Identity, Journal of African Studies,Vol.77(2018)
  3. ___________________.“Center–periphery relations, local governance and Conflicts in Ethiopia: the experience of Metekel province,” Social Identities Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.Vol.24(2018)
  4. ______________________. “Poverty, peasantry and agriculture in Ethiopia,” Annals of Agrarian Science 15 (2017)
  5. ____________________. “Gojjam(Ethiopia): Peopling, Christianization, and Identity,” Journal of African Identities. Vol.14 (2016)
  6. _____________________.Power, Church and the Gult System in Gojjam, Ethiopia,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume 25(2016)
  7. _____________________. “Women and Access to Resources in Ethiopia,”JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Vol.27 (2015)
  8. ____________________. “Hierarchy, Power and Rivalry in Traditional Polity of Ethiopia,” Africa Insight. Vol. 45 (2015)
  9. ______________.“Identity,  Centralization  and  Resistance  in  Ethiopia:  The  Case  of  Nuer  and   Anuak,” African  Journal  of  Political  Science  and  International  Relations,”  Vol.8  (2014)
  10. ______________.“Peasants,  land  reform  and  property  right  in  Ethiopia:  The  experience  of  Gojjam  Province,  1974  to  1997,”  Journal  of  African  Studies  and  Development  .Vol. 5  (2013)
  11. ______________.“Ethnic Conflict Between the Nuer and Anuak in the Sudan-Ethiopian Border Region,”  Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review.Vol.29(2013)
  12. _______________.‘The Evolution and Development of Kingship and Traditional Governance in Ethiopia: a case of the Kefa Kingdom,” Journal of Asian and African Studies.Vol.47 (2012)
  13. _______________. “Land Tenure, Land reform and Qalad System in Ethiopia, (1941-74,” Journal of Asian and African Studies. Vol. 46 (2011)
  14. _______________. “The  Genesis  and  Evolution  of  the  Ethiopian  Revolution  and  the  Derg:  A  Note  on  Publications  by  Participants  in  the  Event,”  History  in  Africa:  a  Journal  of Method. Vol.37(2010)

BOOKS AND ARTICLE REVIEW

Books

  • Getnet Bekele, “Ploughing new ground: food, farming & environmental change in Ethiopia” , The Economic History Review,Vol.77 (2019)
  • Redie  Bereketeab “The  Horn  of  Africa:  Intra-state  and  inter-state  conflicts  and  Security,”  African Journal of History and Culture, Vol.6 (2014) 

    Articles and Proposals

  • Many

PAPERS PRESENTED

  • “Issues and Problems of African Historiography,” a Paper presented at the Annual June History Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2011.
  • “Center-Periphery Relations, Local Governance and Conflicts in Ethiopia,” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2014.
  • “Community Tourism in Fragile Environment for Sustainable Livelihood in Northwestern Ethiopia (Choqe Mountains),” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2013.
  • “Historical and Heritage Attractions in Lake Tana Areas,” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2012.
  • “Women and Right to Land in Amhara Region, Ethiopia,” a Paper presented at the 19th International Ethiopian Studies Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

  • Land  Policy  and  Development  Plans  in  Ethiopia,  1957-73
  • Land Taxation and Bureaucratization in Ethiopia from 1942-1975: Structure and Reform
  • Land Disputes, Courts and Mode of Litigation in Ethiopia

WORKS  AND PROJECTS  IN PROGRESS

  1. The Nile (Abay) in the Ethiopian Scholarship and Imagination(AAU-BDU joint Project since 2018)
  2. The Untold Achievements of Women during Armed Resistance and Peasant Protests in Northwestern Ethiopia, the 1930s-1990s
  3. Effect of Globalisation on Traditional Food System: The Case  of Ethiopia
  4. Land Acquisitions, Enclosures, and Conflicts In Ethiopia
  5. Gender, Migration and Farming Systems in Ethiopia

  REFEREES

  1. Dr.Ahmed Hassen, Director, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Email: ahmed.hassen@aau.edu.et
  2. Dr. Fantahun Ayele,   Bahir Dar University, Email: fantahun@gmail.com; Mobile:+251918766807
  3. Prof Shumet Sishagn, Christopher Newport University, History department; Email: sishagne@cnu.edu

 

Department: 
History
Rank: 
Professor
Contact info: 
+251 918765047 / teme_baye@yahoo.com
Department: 
History and Heritage Management