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  • Name : TEMESGEN GEBEYEHU BAYE, PROFESSOR
  • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
  • BAHR DAR UNIVERSITY, BAHIR DAR, ETHIOPIA
  • Cell Phone: +251 918765047

  •  Email: temebaye5@gmail..com

    A. EDUCATION

  • Full Professorship, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, 2021

  • DOCTOR OF PHILODOPHY IN HISTORY, University of South Africa, 2015

    DISSERTATION: Land Rights and Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia: The Case of Gojjam, 1941-75

  • Associate Professorship, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia,2014
  • Assistant Professorship, Bahir Dar University, 2010
  • 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

    B. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
    1.1995-1998: Teacher, North Gondar Education Department.
    2. Since 2001 employed by the 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, since 2015 as an Associate Professor since and February 2021 as full professor.

    C. 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
    ❖ Supervised the tutoring and mentoring of student in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
    ❖ Taught World, African and Ethiopian History courses for BA,MA and PhD students
    ❖ Member, African Civil Wars, Rand corporation,2010

    ❖PhD Programme coordinator, 2015-Present
    ❖ Course Chair, African History Courses, 2010-Present
    ❖ Member, Faculty of Social Sciences Promotion Committee, 2016-2019
    ❖ 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

    D. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

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

    E. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  • Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye. “Property Rights and Their Implications on Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: A History,” Ethiopian Journal of Economics. Vol. XXVII (2018)
    ______________________.Muslims in Ethiopia: History and Identity, Journal of African Studies,Vol.77(2018)
    ___________________.“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)

    ______________________. “Poverty, peasantry and agriculture in Ethiopia,” Annals of Agrarian Science 15 (2017)
    ____________________. “Gojjam(Ethiopia): Peopling, Christianization, and Identity,” Journal of African Identities. Vol.14 (2016)
    _____________________.Power, Church and the Gult System in Gojjam, Ethiopia,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume 25(2016)
    _____________________. “Women and Access to Resources in Ethiopia,”JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Vol.27 (2015)
    ____________________. “Hierarchy, Power and Rivalry in Traditional Polity of Ethiopia,” Africa Insight. Vol. 45 (2015)
    ______________.“Identity, Centralization and Resistance in Ethiopia: The Case of Nuer and Anuak,” African Journal of Political Science and International Relations,” Vol.8 (2014)
    ______________.“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)
    ______________.“Ethnic Conflict Between the Nuer and Anuak in the Sudan-Ethiopian Border Region,” Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review.Vol.29(2013)
    _______________.‘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)

    _______________. “Land Tenure, Land reform and Qalad System in Ethiopia, (1941-74,” Journal of Asian and African Studies. Vol. 46 (2011)
    _______________. “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)

    F. BOOKS AND ARTICLE REVIEW

    1. 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)

    2. Articles and Proposals

  • Many

G. PAPERS PRESENTED

  1. “Issues and Problems of African Historiography,” a Paper presented at the Annual June History Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2011.
  2. “Center-Periphery Relations, Local Governance and Conflicts in Ethiopia,” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2014.
  3. “Community Tourism in Fragile Environment for Sustainable Livelihood in Northwestern Ethiopia (Choqe Mountains),” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2013.
  4. “Historical and Heritage Attractions in Lake Tana Areas,” a Paper presented at the Annual Seminar, Bahir Dar University, 2012.

  5. “Women and Right to Land in Amhara Region, Ethiopia,” a Paper presented at the 19th International Ethiopian Studies Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.

    H. 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

    I. 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, 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

J. WRITING EXPERIENCE

I have authored and produced three modules and reviewed four modules for undergraduate program, 1998-2004 E.C. I have also produced a number of handouts for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

K. REFEREES

  1. Dr Ahmed Hassen, Director, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.

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
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