Biography of Semir Yusuf Teshale (Ph.D.).
Semir Yusuf is a Political Scientist with over ten years of experience in teaching and conducting research. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto (UofT), Canada. Previously, he did his Masters and Bachelor degrees in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University.
He also took additional intensive trainings on Peace and Conflict Studies (United Religion’s Initiative, US, India, and Ethiopia) and Research Methodology (The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia). Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he served as a lecturer at the Addis Ababa University and the New Generation University College. He also worked as a researcher for UPeace, Africa Programme. At the UofT, he has been active in the teaching and research areas.
Semir specializes in the fields of Comparative Politics and Development Studies. His specific thematic areas of expertise are conflict and peace studies with a special emphasis on the politics of insurgency, authoritarian politics and democratization, ethnic and nationalist movements/discourses and the politics of development. His regional speciality is the Horn of Africa with a specific interest in Ethiopia. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals in the noted areas.
