Aaron Tesfaye

Political Science Department

William Paterson University
Wayne, New Jersey 07470 USA

Office: Room 439 Raubinger Hall Phone: (973) 720-3428; Fax (973) 720-3477 E-mail: tesfayea@wpunj.edu Fall 2008 Office Hours: Monday 5-6 pm and Thursday 10:00-11:00 am.

Education: Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, 1996.Fellowships and Awards:

• 2006 Fulbright-Hays, Travel Grant: to facilitate research on Work and Globalization and experiential Learning in India.2006 William Paterson Faculty Development Grant to Facilitate Research and experiential learning on Bolivarian Movement in Venezuela.2005 William Paterson University, Summer Research Grant: to explore the relationship between water scarcity, conflict and its Resolution in the Nile Basin, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia1993-94 Fulbright Fellow: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
• 1991-92 Hayes Foundation Grant: Center for Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University.

Selected Bibliography:

• Political Power and Ethnic Federalism: the Struggle for Democracy in Ethiopia (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002)."Hydropolitics and Regional Stability in the Nile Basin," University of California, Los Angles, Globalization Research Center, January 2006."Identity Politics, Citizenship and Democratization in Ethiopia." International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Spring 2006.

Research in Progress:

The Political Economy of the Nile Waters Regime, forthcoming 2009 (under contract, Edwin Mellen Press.)

Course offered:

• POL 120: Introduction to Politics
• POL 225: US Political Economy
• POL 230: Comparative Politics
• POL 339: African Politics
• POL 503: Comparative Public Policy
• POL 632: International Political Economy