Amsale (Amy) Alemu

Amsale Alemu is an assistant professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. She holds a Ph.D. in African and African American Studies and A.M. in History from Harvard University. She teaches courses on higher education and social change; African political thought; decolonization and the Cold War; and gender theory and practice.

Her current book project examines revolutionary history, higher education, and U.S. geopolitics in the Horn of Africa, with attention to relationships among Ethiopian and Eritrean activists and anticolonial collaborators in the 1960s and 1970s. Her writing has been published in Radical History Review, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and The Global Ethiopian Diaspora (Boydell & Brewer). She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and Fulbright-Hays Program.