Notes on Contributors
Alessandro Bausi
Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Universität Hamburg, is a philologist and linguist working on ancient, late antique and medieval texts and manuscripts. Journal and series editor and author of many works, he also heads several projects in Ethiopian-Eritrean philology, manuscript studies, linguistics, and corpus linguistics.
Antonella Brita
Ph.D. (2008, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) is associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Universität Hamburg). She is a specialist of Ethiopian hagiography and of Gǝʿǝz manuscript culture.
Claire Bosc-Tiessé
Ph.D. (2001), is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and scientific advisor at the National Institute for Art History (INHA). She is a specialist of Ethiopian art history from medieval to modern times.
Amélie Chekroun
Ph.D. (2013, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is a specialist of medieval Ethiopian history, especially Muslim communities between the 13th and the 16th centuries.
Marie-Laure Derat
is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Specialist of medieval Christian Ethiopia (10th–15th centuries), her most recent book is L’énigme d’une dynastie sainte et usurpatrice dans le royaume chrétien d’Éthiopie du Xe au XIIIe siècle (Brepols, 2018).
Deresse Ayenachew
Ph.D. (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2009) is Assistant Professor at Debre Berhan University, Ethiopia and a 2017–18 fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Nantes, France. A specialist of medieval Ethiopian history, he has published on diverse aspects including megalithism, Islamic culture, and royal administration.
François-Xavier Fauvelle
is Professor of History and Archaeology of African Civilisations at the Collège de France, Paris. The author of numerous books and articles of African history, he recently published The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages (Princeton 2018).
Emmanuel Fritsch
is a fellow of the French Center of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) in Addis Ababa and a member of the Society for Oriental Liturgy (SOL) as a liturgiologist specializing in the worship of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥǝdo Church from its origins in the late antique period to the present.
Alessandro Gori
Ph.D. (1998, Università degli Studi di Napoli ”L’Orientale”) is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is a specialist of Ethiopian Islamic culture and history on which he has published extensively.
Samantha Kelly
Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern) is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Author of several works on later-medieval Italy, she has since 2012 specialized in Ethiopian-European relations through the sixteenth century.
Habtemichael Kidane
Ph.D. (1990, Istituto Pontificio Orientale, Rome), is a specialist of the Ethiopian liturgy and religious literature. He is the author of L’ufficio divino della Chiesa etiopica (Rome, 1998) and Bibliografia della liturgia etiopica (Rome, 2008), as well as many articles.
Margaux Herman
Ph.D. (2012, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), is a specialist of Ethiopian women’s history and coordinates a research program on Women and Gender in the Horn of Africa at the French Center of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) in Addis Ababa.
Bertrand Hirsch
is Professor of Ancient African History at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A former director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) in Addis Ababa, he has written articles and books on medieval Christian and Islamicate Ethiopia.
Gianfrancesco Lusini
Ph.D. (1992) is Professor of Gǝʿǝz and Amharic and of Ethiopian-Eritrean history at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.” He is editor of Rassegna di studi etiopici and author of several monographs on late antique and medieval Gǝʿǝz literature and on Ethiopan monasticism and hagiography.
Denis Nosnitsin
Ph.D. (2002, St. Petersburg State University) is a specialist in the literatures and languages of Ethiopia, and in the codicology of Ethiopic manuscripts. In 2009–15 he headed the ERC-supported project “Ethio-SPaRe Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia. Salvation, Preservation, Research.”
Anaïs Wion
Ph.D. (2003) is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the Institut des Mondes Africains. She is presently working on the medieval and pre-modern history of Aksum as well as on the history of Ethiopian Christian administration.