Research

My current research focuses on regional gender governance by looking at the African Union, and its efforts to eliminate violence and discrimination against women. In my research project, I examine how gender norms promoted regionally, and explore the significance of political brokers and aspirational politics in adopting ambitious normative frameworks. Additionally, I have looked into Ethiopia's engagement with the AU women's rights framework, and the alternative paths taken by practitioners in the country. I am interested in regional IR from an anthropological perspective with a focus on the agency of African political actors in the international system.

Teaching

I have been lecturing in following courses:

International Organisations and Global Politics: lobbying, diplomacy

Global Governanve and International Institutions: human rights regime, UN system

Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods and Interviews: observations and participant observation, elite interviews, manual coding

Management and Cooperation

I am part of a Global Norms on Violence Against Women (GLOW) in Ethiopia project. The research programme is a collaboration between Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Peace and Development Center (PDC) in Ethiopia and the University of Addis Ababa (UAA).