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Alexander Meckelburg is a historical anthropologist. He is research fellow at the Department of History with the ERC-funded project 鈥淎frican Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa (AFRAB)鈥�. He carries out research on the history of slavery and abolition in Ethiopia.
His research and fieldwork focuses on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. His PhD thesis 鈥淔rom 鈥淪ubject to Citizen鈥�? History, Identity and Minority Citizenship: The Case of the Mao and Komo of western Ethiopia鈥� (defended March 2017 at the University of Hamburg) is a historical ethnography of minority citizenship and intergenerational marginalization of Koman speaking ethnic communities in western Ethiopia.聽
Previously he was an editorial assistant with the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and research fellow at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at the University of Hamburg (2010-2016). He was a visiting scholar at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi affiliated to ERC-funded project 鈥淪LAFNET: Slavery in Africa Dialogue between Europe and Africa鈥� (2017-19) and Herzog-Ernst Fellow of the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation at the University of Erfurt (2019).
Since 2020 he is a member of the editorial board of the journal Aethiopcia: International Journal for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies ().
His research interests include the social and political history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, race, slavery, labor and migration, political culture and citizenship.
Recent Publications聽
Peer-reviewed journals
- with Nicola Camilleri (2020), 鈥淪pecial Issue: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa鈥�, Northeast African Studies, 20, (2020), 1-2聽
- with Giulia Bonacci, 鈥淚ntroduction: Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia鈥�, Northeast African Studies (Special Issue) 17, 2 (2017/18), 5-30
- with Solomon Gebreyes, 鈥淓thiopia and Great Britain: A Note on the Anti-Slavery Protocol of 1884鈥�, Northeast African Studies 17, 2 (2017/18), 61-82聽
Book chapters
- 鈥淢inority Integration and Citizenship Expansion. Observations from the Mao and Komo groups in Western Ethiopia鈥�, in Susanne Epple (ed.) Artisans, Hunters and Slave Descendants in Ethiopia: Recent Observations on Status Change and Boundary Shifting, Studien zur Kulturkunde, Reimer Verlag: Berlin (2018), 173-192
Edited books
- with Sophia Dege-M眉ller and Dirk Bustorf (eds), Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies. Aethiopica Supplement, 7, Harrassowitz-Verlag: Wiesbaden (2018)
