Department of Politics and International Studies & Centre for Pan African Studies

Dr Daniel Mulugeta

Key information

Roles
Department of Politics and International Studies Lecturer in International Politics of Africa and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
C237
Email address
dg30@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Daniel Mulugeta is a Lecturer in International Politics of Africa and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the ethnography of the state in Africa, pan-Africanism, and regional politics, cutting across the fields of politics, anthropology and sociology.

Previously, Daniel was a Lecturer in African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham (2021-2022) and before that a Postdoctoral Researcher on the African State Architecture project (2018-2021) at SOAS University of London. He completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Sheffield in January 2018.

Research interests

Daniel currently leads a four-year collaborative multi-sited research project on continental and diaspora politics funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship scheme. The project explores the philosophical underpinnings of pan-Africanism as a rationale for and foil of peace and development and as a tool to enhance diaspora affinity networks by African and diaspora institutions. The project aims to bridge gaps between theory, policy and practice whilst developing perspectives that will help drive new political thinking in continental and regional policymaking and diaspora engagement. For details, see Pan-African frontiers and identities: the remaking of Africa in world politics

Daniel’s UKRI FLF project builds on his research record in the ethnography of the state, pan-Africanism, and regional politics. For his work on the African State Architecture project (2018-2021), he looked at the connections between architecture and regional and Pan-African politics. Daniel used architecture as a prism for understanding the complexity of different styles of regional identity, politics, and geographic imaginations in contemporary Africa. As part of this research, he co-edited ‘Architecture and Politics in Africa Making, living and imagining identities through buildings’ with Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher (James Currey). His first book ‘The Everyday State in Africa Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia’ based on his PhD thesis, was published by Routledge in 2020

Publications

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