RESUME

 

 

 

 

Name:                                                                             Dawit Okubatsion Woldu

 

Sex                                                                                  Male

 

Date of Birth                                                                   01/02/1976

 

Place of Birth                                                                  Dabre, Southern Zone, Eritrea

 

Marital Status                                                                  Single

 

Nationality                                                                      Eritrean

 

Address                                                                           Center for African Studies

                                                                                         University of Florida

                                                                                          427 Grinter Hall. Po.Box 115560

                                                                                          Gainesville, FL,32611-5560

                                                                                           Fax: 352-392-3435

                                                                                           E-mail: daveok@ufl.edu

 

 

Educational Back Ground

 

Year of Study                      Institutional/School                        Degree

 

1996-2000                         University of Asmara, Eritrea             B.A Archaeology          

 

1992-1996                         Adi-Quala Secondary School              Certificate

 

1990-1992                      Adi-Quala Junior School                         Certificate

 

1987-1990                       Mai-Mine Elementary School                 Certificate

                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Languages

 

Amharic (Fluent written and spoken) Ethiopian Official Language

Tigrinya (Fluent written and Spoken) Eritrean official Language and Spoken in Ethiopia as well

English (Fluent written and spoken)

Tigre (Fluent written and basic communication) and Beginner Level of Arabic

 

 

Field Experience

 

  • Fall 2002                            Italeo-Eritrean Buia Paleontological Research Project        
  • Summer 1999-2003           Greater Asmara Archaeological Research Project
  • Summer 1998                     Eritrean Archival, Ethnological and Oral history   Project

 

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

·        2000-2003                   Teaching Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Asmara

·        Fall 2003-Current         Teaching Amharic, University of Florida, Department of African Languages and Literature.   

 

·        Summer 2003               Teaching Amharic, Ohio University, Summer Cooperative African Languages Institute (SCALI).

 

·        Summer 2005              Teaching Amharic, Indiana University, Summer    Cooperative African Languages Institute (SCALI)

 

 

 

Research Interest

 

            Origin of Modern Humans, Biological Variation of Humans, Human Genetics and Middle Stone Age Archaeology of Africa

 

 

    

 

 



Awards.

  • LSB Franklin Mosher Fellowship = $22,781 for the academic periods of 2003/2004 and 2004/2005. This was sponsored by the Leakey Foundation                    
  • Full Tuition Scholarship from University of Florida
  •  Graduate Studies Research Council, University of Florida travel Award, June 2006.

 

 

 

Publications

 

  • Characterization of Lithic Complexes From Buia(Dandiro Basin, Dankil Depression Eritrea) (2004) Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrapfia  Vol,110 pp 99-132 ( With Fabio Martini, Yoseph Libesekal,Omar Filippi, Habtom Kasay, Asmeret G/her,Amaha Segid, Tekeste Solomon,Zelalem Teka, Dessale Yosief & Samuel Yemane.

 

  • Currently, I am working on two book chapters on Eritrean Archaeology that will be edited by Dr.Peter Schmidt, Dr. Matt Curtis and Zelalem Teka. I am also working on my own project on Somalia archaeological collections.

 

  • Starting summer 2006 I am working on the genetic variation of White tailed deer in Florida.

 

 

 

Degree’s Awarded

 

  • M.A Anthropology, University of Florida, proposed date of award Fall, 2005
  • Certificate in Testing foreign Languages (Particularly Languages of the Horn of Africa), American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Yonkers New York, 2005.
  • Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2003

 

  • B.A Archaeology, University of Asmara, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employment

 

 

 

 

·        August 2005-Present Language Tester, For American Council on the  

                Teaching of Foreign Languages

·        2004-Present, Interpreter and translator on part time bases for the Black

                Diamond Language service Company.

 

·        2003- Current Language Instructor, Department of African and Asian 

                             Languages and Literature, University of Florida

 

·        2000-2003   Graduate Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of

                          Asmara

 

·        2000-2003      Assistant Curator, National Museum of Eritrea

 

 

 

Workshops, Training, and Presentation

 

June 21-26, 2006                        “Inferring Eritrean Later Stone Age Archaeology from

                                                      Archaeology and Paleoenvironment of the Horn of

                                                       Africa” A paper presented at the Society for

                                                        Africanist Archaeologists, Calgary Canada

Dec, 20-25, 2005                                Language evaluation and Test administration,

                                                  American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages

                                                  Yonkers, New York

 

October, 5-16, 2004                 Oral proficiency and Language Testing, American Council

                                                 For the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 

                                                 Washington,DC

 

 

 

May 1-26, 2003                     African Languages Teachers Training, University of

         Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

 

 

   

 

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