Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2020
dinkaex@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
PhD in History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 2018
Research interests
Environmental history, the political history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, and Oromo-Ethiopia historiographies.
Teaching areas
African History, World History survey courses
Selected Publications
Book
Society, Revolution and Military Intervention in Ethiopian Politics: Experiences among the Macca Oromo of Wallagga During the Darg Regime, 1974-1991 (Saarbrucken: Lap Lambert, 2011).
Peer-reviewed Articles
“Eating a Country: The Dynamics of State-Society Encounters in Qellem, Western Ethiopia, 1909-1933” The Journal of African History, vol. 63 (2), 2022.
“The Quest for Self-determination and the Ethiopian State: The Oromo Popular Uprising of 2014-2017 in Historical Perspective”, Northeast African Studies, vol. 21 (2), (2021), pp. 117-150.
Guest Edited journal special issue:
“The Past of Ethiopia’s Present: Unfolding Crises, Cyclical Violence and Competing Nationalism,” Northeast African Studies, vol. 21 (2) (2021)
“The Struggle for Survival at the Margin of an African Empire: The Gidaamii Rebellion of 1909—12”, The Journal of Oromo Studies vol. 26 (2019).
“Resistance and integration in the Ethiopian empire: the case of Macca Oromo of Qellem, 1880s-1941,” Florida Annals, 19 (2012), 87-100.
“Assessing the Aftermath of Adwa in Wallagga Territory (Ethiopia): the case of Leeqaa-Naqamtee and Qellem (1896-1937),” Proceedings of International Conference of Social Science and Humanity, 2 (Singapore, 2011), 482-84.
Magazine articles
“Oromo Protests: the ‘Oromo Street’ and Africa’s Counter-Protest State (Part I),” Addis Standard, June 9, 2016.
“Oromo Protests: the ‘Oromo Street’ and Africa’s Counter-Protest State (Part II),” Addis Standard, July 25, 2016.
“Oromo Protests: the ‘Oromo Street’ and Africa’s Counter-Protest State (Part III),” Addis Standard, September 16, 2016.
Book projects
Balagär, Balabbat and Ba’id: A History of Local Conflicts, Bargains and State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (Ca. 1880s-1974)
A.Triulzi, T. Ta’a and Etana Dinka (trans & eds), Documents for Wallagga History, Ethiopia (ca. 1880s-1920s E.C.)
