Name: Samuel

    Father’s Name: Negash

   Grandfather’s Name: Yemane

Education attended:

• BA, History, Addis Ababa University, 1985
• MA, History, Addis Ababa University, 2004
• Ph.D, History, Addis Ababa University, 2013

Academic rank: Assist. Professor

Working for AAU since 2005

Address:

• Campus: Main
• Building: Social Science (NCR)
• Floor no.: 2^nd
• Office room no. 217
• Office tel.: +251 11 23 97 23
• Mobile:  +251 911 63 00 62
• University email ID: Samuel.negash@aau.edu.et
• Alternate email ID: negsamsamneg@yahoo.co.uk

Research Interest:

• Ogaden (Somali)Region: Political: administrative, and regional history; borderland and peripheral issues; inter- and intra-clan conflicts and conflict resolution mechanisms; civil war, secessionism, anti-government political groups; Islamic fundamentalism; “Irredentism”; Ethio-Somalia conflicts and wars, militarism, diplomacy
• Socio-Economic: pastoralism, settlement, resettlement, livelihood, clan composition, population distribution, seasonal and transhumant movements of pastoralists, refugees, displacement, and returnees; resource conflicts (herder-herder, herder-farmer and farmer-farmer), issues of development and integration; regional trade, cross-border trade, contraband trade, search for oil

Publications:

• Published an article under the title: “Colonial Legacy, State Intervention and Secessionism: Paradoxical National Identities of the Ogaden and Ishaq Clans in Ethiopia” in a book entitled: Society, State and Identity in African History, 2008.
• An article with the topic: “Fundamental Causes of the Ethio-Somalia Conflicts and Wars” in Amharic language [የኢትዮ-ሶማሊያ ግጭቶች ታሪካዊና መሠረታዊ መንስኤዎች] is published on a Special Issue of ዋቢ [WITNESS] in 2012.
• An article entitled “Ethiopia’s Elusive Quest for an Outlet to the Sea: The Case of Haud-Zeila Exchange” was presented on 30 October 2012 at the 18^th Conference of Ethiopian Studies and was selected on 31^st October 2013 for publication in the Proceedings of the 18^th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies

Preparation of a chapter under the title: Ambivalence in the Ogaden Secessionism: A Historical Overview of an Externally-Propelled ‘Nationalist’ Aspiration is underway for an envisaged book entitled: Bondage of Boundaries and the ‘Toxic Other’ in Post-Colonial Africa: The ‘Northern Problem’ and Identity Politics in the 21 st Century.