• 2010: Chair of the national committee for a project entitled “Ethiopian Virtual Campus” that aimed at

providing “quality education through the use of ICT and virtual concept” by connecting 14 public

universities appointed by the federal MOE. The project was submitted to UNESCO in 2010 for consideration as part of the Extension of

Mediterranean Avicenna Virtual Campus European Commission & UNESCO Network.

• 2011 (July): Appointed by the MOE (July 19-23, 2011) to lead the delegation to UNESCO to discuss the contents of the Ethiopian Virtual Campus project with UNESCO experts (SC/PSD Division) in Paris.
• 2010-2011: Member of the Managing Council of Addis Ababa University.
• 2010-2011: Member of the University Senate of Addis Ababa University.
• 2010-2011: Chief Academic Officer for Graduate Program Development and Admissions, AAU.
• 2010-2013: Founding Chair of the Academy of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures.
• 2008-2010: Director of Graduate Studies, Addis Ababa University.
• 2002-2006: Chair, Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University
• 1994-1997: Chair, Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University

• 2015: Higher Diploma Program (HDP) in teaching subject area, Addis Ababa University.
• 2008 (December): Taken short term on–job training at REED Learning in UK on Managing Successful Projects; Essential Business Writing and Presentation; Leadership, Team Building and Strategic Management; and Strategic Commercial Awareness.
• 2002: Post-doctoral research in Experimental Phonetics: Laboratory de Phonologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2001: PhD in Linguistics, Laboratoire de Phonologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (la plus grande distinction), Brussels, Belgium.
• 1993: MA, Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University (pass outstanding)
• 1984: BA, Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University

• 2016: Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences

• 2005-2008: Appointed as an External Examiner for MPhil theses at Moi University, Kenya, by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Moi.
• 2004: Winner of the Senior Scholars Research Grant Competition, organized by the Organization for

Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA).

• 2004 (March-June): Visiting Scholar to London University, Center for African Studies, SOAS.
• 2000: Winner of the “Development Co-operation Prize 1999” organized by the State Secretary for

Development Co-operation of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.

• 1996: German Academic Exchange Service, Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University

of Cologne, Germany.

• 1994: Winner of the Six Gender Issue Research Competition organized by the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA).

• 2016 -: Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural and Religious Studies, David Publishing Company. USA.
• 2002 – : Organization for Social Science Research for Southern and Eastern Africa

• Journal of Institute of Ethiopian Studies, JIES, AAU
• Ethiopian Journal of Languages & Literature, EJLL, AAU
• The Ethiopian Journal of Education, IER, AAU
• Journal of African languages and Linguistics, JALL, Leiden University
• International Journal of African Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA
• Northeast African Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Journal of African Languages & Linguistics, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Membership:

• 2015 -: Member of the Editorial Board of Irkab, a bi-annual Journal of the Center for the Development of Amharic, Bahir Dar University.
• 2010 – : Member (permanent) of the Ethiopian Academy of Languages and Cultures
• 2006 – : Member & President of the Philological Society of Ethiopia.
• 2004 – : Ethiopian Red Cross Society
• 2003 – : Society of Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies

       Research projects (international):

• Project leader of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, Multimedia documentation of Koegu, a pilot project (SOAS, University of London, grant number PPG0026, 2007).
• Project leader of World Bank sponsored project on Sign Language and Deaf Culture program through

the MOE (2008-2009).

• Member of the joint project between AAU & Yamaguchi University (being led by Professor Hideyuki INIU, grant number 26300022) on documentation of minority languages (2014-2018).
• Member of the research team and head of the Omotic sub project in the ongoing NORAD project (2013-2018) entitled “Linguistic Capacity Building – tools for the inclusive development of Ethiopia” being jointly carried out by Oslo University and AAU.
• Project leader of an international project funded by NORAD (2016-2021, Ref. QZA 0483 ETH-16/0028)

entitled: BEYOND ACCESS: Improving Quality of Early Years Reading Instructions in Ethiopia and South Sudan and involves the Department of Linguistics of AAU, the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Norway, Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia and University of Juba in South Sudan.

• phonetics and phonology
• historical-comparative linguistics
• language policy
• sign linguistics
• mother tongue education and
• higher education.

• Moges Yigezu. 2017. Ngaalam: an endangered Nilo-Saharan language of the south west Ethiopia: a sociolinguistic analysis. To appear on Journal of Languages and Linguistics of Nairobi University. (Accepted for publication)
• Moges Yigezu. 2016. Some notes on implosive consonants in Nyangatom. Studies in Ethiopian Languages, 5 (2016), .
• Moges Yigezu. 2016. Aspects of the Morphophonology of Hamar. Oslo Studies in Language, 8 (1), 2016, 457-468.
• Moges Yigezu and Robert J. 2016. Harari linguistic identity in the LL: creation, legitimization, and

omission in the city of Harar, Ethiopia; in Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic

landscapes, pp. 131-143, eds. Robert J et al. Bloomsbury Academic: An imprint of Bloomsbury

Publishing Plc. London, New York.

• Moges Yigezu. 2015. The Hamar–Benna Cluster: a Lexicostatistic Survey . Journal of Institute of

Ethiopian Studies, Vol 38, pp. 1-32.

• Moges Yigezu. 2015. Is Aroid Nilo-Saharan or Afro-Asiatic? Some evidence from phonological, lexical

and morphological reconstructions, In Nilo-Saharan – Models and Descriptions, eds. Angelika M. &

Anne Storch, pp. 381-401. Koln: Rudiger Koppe Verlag.

• Moges Yigezu. 2015. “Nonverbal communication codes among the Hamar: structures and functions “ In Body Talk: Some nonverbal signals in the African World. Augustine Agwuele (ed), pp. 133-146.

Equinox Publishers.

• Binyam Sisay & Moges Yigezu. 2014. Restoring African Studies to its linguistic identity: reflections on Ethiopian Studies, Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2014.946267
• Moges Yigezu. 2013. Funding higher education in Ethiopia: Modalities, challenges, opportunities and

prospects, in Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. Damtew Teferra, pp. 38-70.

Palgrave: MacMillan Publishers.

• Moges Yigezu. 2007. The vowel system of Kara from a historical-comparative perspective. From

Beyond the Mediterranean, Proceedings of the 7th Hamito-Semitic Congress (Akten des 7.

internationalen Semitohamitistenkongresses, Berlin 2004), pp. 245-252. University of Berlin, Germany.

• September 2015: Participated in the 1st Crossing boundaries Festival and Conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (September 25-27, 2015).

• 2011-2013: Member of the Advisory Technical Committee of RESSESA (Research School for Scoial Science Research in Esatern and Southern Africa) and Focal Person of Addis Ababa University in RESSESA.
• 2010-2013: Member of the streeing committee, established by the Federal governmnet to oversee the development of the national language policy.
• 2010-2013: Chair of the National Language Policy Technical Committee, appointed by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
• April 2012: Orthography of Aari Language, a workshop organized by the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of SNNPR and the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Jinka, South Omo.

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