Miran spending fall in Germany studying the history of Ethiopian slavery

Jonathan Miran, associate professor in the Western Washington University Liberal Studies Department, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship to spend fall term at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies (part of the Asien-Afrika-Institut) in the University of Hamburg. In Germany, he is collaborating with colleagues on a project that focuses on the history of slavery and the slave trade in Ethiopia and on the Ethiopian diaspora in the western Indian Ocean and the Middle East.