Getatchew Haile

Getatchew Haile is a MacArthur Fellow and has studied theology at the Coptic Theological College in Cairo, Egypt; social sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and Semitic philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. He has also taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) before he moved to the United States in 1976. Haile is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and has served St. Johns University (Collegeville, Minnesota) as Curator of the Ethiopian Study Center, as Regents Professor of Medieval Studies, and as Cataloguer of Oriental Manuscripts, Emeritus.