Biography

Amanuel Tsighe Gebremichael is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, where his major field is Political Theory and his minor field is American Politics. His doctoral project, “United Nations of Africa: Theories of Liberation in the Horn,” draws on original archival material in Eritrea, the UK, and the US to explore how activist and rebel groups across the Horn of Africa understood their “nationalist” projects as facilitating Pan-African integration and the construction of nonethnic states.