College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Community Sustainability

Teferi Abate Adem holds a Ph. D. in Anthropology (Boston University 2000), M.A. in Social Anthropology (Addis Ababa University, 1993), and B.A. in Sociology (Addis Ababa University, 1987). He is currently a Research Anthropologist with Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University, working on, among others, a cross cultural research project that seeks to understand local responses to climate change and related threats. Prior to this, Teferi was a visiting assistant professor of international development and social change (IDSC) at Clark University, a postdoctoral fellow at the Program in Agrarian Studies (Yale University) and an assistant professor at Addis Ababa University where he also chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Teferi’s publications on the Lower Omo Valley and Lake Turkana basin include: Adem, Teferi Abate, Carol Ember, Eric C. Jones, Ian Skoggard  and A. J. Faas,  2015.  “Dangerous Geography: Spatial Distribution of Livestock Raiding in Northwestern Kenya,” Ethnology, 51: 1-29. Ember, Carol R., Ian Skoggard, Teferi Abate Adem and A. J. Faas,  2014.  “Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region,” Civil Wars, 16:3, 300-327. Ian Skoggard and Teferi Abate Adem, 2010.   “From Protectors to Predators: The Filial Disaffection of a Turkana Age-Set,” Ethnology, Vol. 49, No. 4, Fall 2010, Pp. 249-262.