Facil Tesfaye

Facil Tesfaye, B.A., M.A.

Ph.D. Candidate in History (All But Dissertation -ABD)

McGillUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

Education:

Ph.D. 2008 -Department of History, McGillUniversity. Ph.D.

Dissertation Topic: “The Dark Side of “Counting”: Statistical Practices and Human Rights Abuses in Rwanda and Zanzibar.”

Degree in progress.

M.A. 2005-2007Department of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal.

M.A. Thesis: “Statistiques et génocide au Rwanda: Sur la genèse d’un système de catégorisation génocidaire”.

Degree granted, October, 2007.

M.A. 2002-2005Humbold University, Berlin (Germany).

Transferred to UQAM before completion of M.A.

B.A. 1998-2002Humbold University, Berlin (Germany).

African Studies and Political Science.

Degree Granted, 2002.

Research Interests:

  • African History
  • African Politics: Conflicts and Conflict Resolution (Peacekeeping and Peacemaking)
  • Genocide and Human Rights Abuses in Africa
  • Colonialism and Identity (Nationalism and Ethnicity) in Post Colonial Africa
  • Colonial Statistical Practices, Demography, Population Politics in Colonial Africa
  • Ethiopian History and Historiography

Awards:

  • Nominee of McGillUniversity for the 2010 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship (only 8 PhD students selected every year)
  • Nominee of McGillUniversity for the 2009-2010 Vanier Scholarship Competition
  • Nominee of McGillUniversity for the 2009 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship
  • Provost’s Graduate Fellowship 2008-2009, McGillUniversity
  • Arts Insights Graduate Research Award 2008, Faculty of Arts, McGillUniversity
  • PhD Fellowship 2008-2012,Department of History, McGillUniversity
  • Scholarship Award, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, 2007-08
  • PhD Fellowship 2007-08, University of Toronto (Offer declined)
  • Award of Excellence, 2006Department of Political Science UQAM
  • Research Scholarship 2005-2006,Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie, UQAM

Publications List:

Article:

“Sur la question de la population du Rwanda. De l’occupation allemande au lendemain du génocide.” Note de Recherche. (CIRST, Montréal) 1(2009).

“The Rwandan Peacekeeping Experience: the “Prostitution” of a concept?” in Les operations de paix: de Suez à Kandahar. Note de Recherche. (CEPES, Montréal) 33(2007), 25-80.

Chapter in Book:

“Statistik und Genozid in Ruanda: Wechselbeziehungen” [Statistics and Genocide in Rwanda: Interrelations] in Josef Ehmer, Ursula Ferdinand & Juergen Reulecke (eds.), Herausforderung Bevoelkerung: Zu Entwicklungen des modernen Denkens ueber die Bevoelkerung vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich" (Wiesbaden: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2007), 341-352.

“Methoden und Theoreme sozialwissenschaftlicher Bevölkerungsforschung in Deutschland um 1930.” [Methods and Theories of Social Scientific Population Studies in Germany Around 1930] (with Rainer Mackensen, Ursula Ferdinand, Michael Engberding, Katrin Hunsicker), Rainer Mackensen, Jürgen Reulecke (eds), Das Konstrukt „Bevölkerung" vor, im und nach dem „Dritten Reich"(Wiesbaden: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2005), 108-110.

Publications in Magazines and Newspapers:

“Die EU-Osterweiterung und die Zukunft der europäischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit” [The EU Enlargment and the Future of European Development Aid], Ansaetze 2 (2004), 12-14.

“Weisser Mann, dunkles Herz”[White man, Dark Heart] (with Constance Frey), Der Tagesspiegel 16/02/2004.

Other:

(Editor) “EU Bulletin of the Delegation of the European Commission to Ethiopia” 36 (Addis Ababa: Delegation of the EU to Ethiopia, 2000).

Conference Papers:

Conference Papers :

“Wonders of the African World”or African-American Afrocentrism: Re-framing East African Societies and East African History in a wider Historiographic Debate.” AEGIS Conference. Leipzig, Germany. (June 4-7, 2009)

“Debt and Slavery: The Indian Credit System in Zanzibar and the East African Slave Export trade in the 19th Century”. International Conference on Debt and Slavery. McGillUniversity, Montreal. (May7-9, 2009)

«"Identitées meutrières"? Les conséquences des politiques identitaires Africaines Post-coloniales.» Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, Queens University, Kingston (May 1-4, 2009)

“Mapping the Rwandan Population 1991-2002: GIS, Census, Genocide” Second Indian Ocean World Centre Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, McGillUniversity, Montreal, (April 27, 2009).

“Ethiopian Historiography in the 1990s: The emergence of contesting narratives”, Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton (May 1-4, 2008).

“The discovery of the indigenous population in Rwanda-Urundi: A Glimpse into the Early 20th Century Belgian Colonial Reports”, First Indian Ocean World Centre Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, McGillUniversity, Montreal, (April 28, 2008).

“Tout ce qui se mesure s’améliore…?”, 75th ACFAS International Congress, Université du Quebec à Trois Rivière, (May, 2007).

“Les opérations de maintien de paix au Rwanda: La « prostitution » d’un concept?”,Les Opérations de paix: De Suez à Kandahar,CEPES, UQAM, Montreal, (October 2006).

“Statistiques et génocides au Rwanda: Des liens?”, 10e Colloque des Études Avancées, CIRST, UQAM, Montreal, (May 2006).

“The EU Enlargment and the Future of European Development Aid”, Kirchlicher Entwicklungsdienst (KED), Brussels, Belgium (February 2004).

“La Situation des étrangers à Berlin”, Interculturalité et Migrations dans l’Union Européenne, INALCO, Paris (April, 1999).

Invited Lectures:

“South African Census and Racial Discrimination: Intersecting Histories.” HIST 382, History of South Africa.McGillUniversity, Montreal. (February 11, 2010).

“Causes of the Rwandan Genocide: What has census got to do with it?”Orientation Week of the Canadian Field Studies in Africa. McGillUniversity, Montreal. (January 11, 2010).

“The Dark Side of ‘Counting’: Statistical Practices and Human Rights Abuses in Rwanda and Zanzibar”. STANDDTalk Series. McGillUniversity, Montreal. (September 25, 2009).

“Statistique et Génocide au Rwanda.” POL 1000, Politique Contemporaine. UQAM, Montreal. (Fall 2006).

Academic Experience:

Rapporteur at Conference:

“The New Africa. Redrawing the Blueprint for the Canada-Africa Partnership”, Canadian Council for Africa, Ottawa (October 2-3, 2009).

Teaching Assistantships:

  • HIST 382 History of South Africa (Julie McArthur, McGill), Winter 2010.
  • HIST 201 Modern African History (Ibrahim Hamza, McGill), Winter 2009.
  • HIST 200 Introduction to African History (Ibrahim Hamza, McGill), Fall 2008.
  • HIST 201 Modern African History (Matthew A. Schnurr, McGill), Winter 2008.
  • HIST 200 Introduction to African History (Professor Gwyn Campbell, McGill), Fall 2007.
  • POL 1000 Politique Contemporaine (Professor Jean-Pierre Beaud and Jean-Guy Prévost, UQAM), Fall 2006, Fall 2007.

Academic Jobs:

  • Tutor, Centre Paolo Freire, Department of Political Science, UQAM (2006-2007).

Research Experience:

  • Member of Groupe de Recherche sur les pratiques et les politiques statistiques (GREPPS), UQAM, Sept 2009-
  • Research Assistant for Dr. Shoshana Magnet

SSHRC Post Doc at McGillUniversity, October 2008 - January 2009

Topic: Digital Biometrical Identification in Canada and the US

  • Research Assistant for Professor Gwyn Campbell

Professor of History and Director of Indian Ocean World Centre, McGillUniversity, 2007-

  • Research Assistant for Professor em. Rainer Mackensen

Department of Social Sciences, Technical University of Berlin, 2003-2004.

Topic: Population Studies in Germany in the 1930’s.

Administration:

  • Organizer of the ‘Journée d’étude sur Charles Tilly’, UQAM, Montreal (February 12, 2010)
  • Organizer of the Second Indian Ocean World Centre Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, McGill University, Montreal, (April 27, 2009).
  • Organizer of the First Indian Ocean World Centre Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, McGill University, Montreal, (April 28, 2008).
  • Co-organizer of the Conference of the Kirchlicher Entwicklungsdienst (KED), Brussels, Belgium (February 2004).
  • Co-organizer of Seminar, Religiöse Pluralität in Afrika ausgehend vom Beispiel Äthiopiens [Religious Plurality in Africa], Theology Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, (Summer Semester 2001).

Membership in Academic and other associations:

  • Member of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS)
  • Member of ACFAS
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Indian Ocean World Centre (2008).
  • Member of CIRST
  • Member of the Counsel of Administration of Ökumenisches Zentrum für Ausländische Studenten (ÖZAS), Berlin, Germany (2001-2002).
  • Member of the Counsel of Administration of the African Students Union (ASU), Berlin, Germany (2001).
  • Member of the Editing Group of the Ecological and Social Press Agency SINNFLUT Berlin, Germany (1999).

Professional Experience:

  • Documentalist at the Delegation of the European Commission in Addis Abeba 1993-1997
  • Librarian/Documentalist at the Lycee Guebre Mariam Franco-Ethiopien, Addis Abeba 1991-1993

Languages:

  • EnglishSpeak, Read and Write
  • FrenchSpeak, Read and Write
  • GermanSpeak, Read and Write
  • AmharicSpeak, Read and Write

Referees:

  • Dr. Jean-Pierre Beaud

Department of Political Science

Université du Quebéc à Montréal

Montreal, Quebec

H3C 3P8

  • Dr. Gwyn Campbell

Department of History

McGillUniversity

855 Sherbrooke St. West Rm. 608

Montreal, Quebec

H3A 2T7

  • Dr. Myron Echenberg

McGillUniversity

855 Sherbrooke St. West Rm. 608

Montreal, Quebec

H3A 2T7

  • Dr. Dr. Jacob Emmanuel Mabe

Institut für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie,Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Technische Universitaet Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 135
D-10623 Berlin

  • H. E. Mr. Richard Zink

EU Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo

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