Solomon Addis Getahun received his Ph.D. in African History from Michigan State University in 2005. He has previously taught African, American and World Civilization courses at the Addis Ababa University, Michigan State University, and Lansing and Seattle Community Colleges. He joined the faculty at Central Michigan University in 2004.

Research Interests
Professor Getahun's research is on African and African diaspora history that focus on the study of contemporary African refugee and immigrant communities in the U.S. Urbanization, history of identity politics in the Horn of Africa, and U.S. foreign policy towards Africa are his other interests. Currently, he is working with Prof. Hakeem Tijani of Morgan State University on a book project, Culture and Customs of Ethiopia: Culture and Customs of Africa Series.

Recent Publications
“Determinants of Ethiopian Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970-2000.” In The Human Cost of African Migrations, eds., Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi (New York: Routledge, an Imprint of Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2007), pp. 359-380.

McAdoo, Young & Getahun, “Emerging Patterns and Characteristics of Parenting, Marriage and Socialization of Native African Americans, Contemporary African, and Caribbean Immigrants,” in Yoku Shaw-Taylor and Steven A. Tuch (eds.), The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Families in the United States (New York: Rowman Littlefield Press, 2007), pp. 83-116.

The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000: Patterns of Migration, Settlement, Survival and Adjustment (New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2007).

"Brain Drain and its Impact on Ethiopia’s Higher Learning Institutions: Medical Establishments and the Military Academies between 1970s and 2000." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 5 (2006): 257-275.

The History of the City of Gondar (Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006).

"The Evolution and Development of the Public Health College and Training Center in Gondar: Che-Che-La from an Italian Consular Office to a Medical College (1910s–1970s)" Northeast African Studies 8 (2005): 77-104.

"The History of Addis Alam." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, ed. Siegbert Uhlig. Vol. 1 (Wiesbaden-. University of Hamburg, 2003): 91.

"Brain Drain and its Effect on Ethiopia's Institutions of Higher Learning, 1970s-1990s." African Issues 30 (2002): 52-56.

"Health and Sanitation in Gondar: The History of the Public Health College and Training Center, PHC & TC, 1950s-1990s." In Proceedings of the EAF International Conference on Contemporary Development Issues in Ethiopia, ed. Sisay Assefa and Adugna Lemi (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2001).

"Addis Alem: The Nucleus of Gondar (1630s-1970s)." In Ethiopia in Broader Perspective, ed. Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, and Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto: Shokado Book Sellers, 1997), 1:3-15.