Elleni Centime Zeleke
Elleni Centime Zeleke is Assistant Professor of African Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University in New York (https://mesaas.columbia.edu/). Elleni was born in Ethiopia, and raised in Toronto, Guyana, and Barbados. Trained at the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University (Toronto), her research interests include vernacular politics in the Horn of Africa, Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School, and the problem of constituting Africa as an object of study.
Elleni’s work has appeared in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , the Journal of NorthEast African Studies, Chimurenga, and Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. She teaches courses on the Horn of Africa, African Political Thought, Critical Theory, and Histories of Capitalism.
Below, listen to or read select talks, author interviews and roundtable discussions :
“Writing the Ethiopian Revolution through Tizita”, University of Washington, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz7s1mEY834
“The Ethiopian Model”, Africa is a Country Podcast, 2020.
Author interview, Journal for the History of Ideas Podcast, 2020.
https://jhiblog.org/2020/12/21/elleni-centime-zeleke-on-ethiopia-in-theory/
Author interview, New Books in African Studies Podcast, 2020.
“Anticolonial Hauntings: The Past as Inheritance, The Present as Obligation”, with Elleni Zeleke, Sara Salem, and Chris Moffat, in Borderlines (October 2020).
“Writing Revolutions: History and Theory between Ethiopia and Iran”, Princeton University, 2020.