Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie Curriculum Vitae

Curator/Head
Physical Anthropology Department
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland OH, 44106 U.S.A.
Telephone: (216) 231-4600 ext. 3242
e-mail: yhailese@cmnh.org

Vitae

Education
2001	The University of California, Berkeley, PhD, Integrative Biology
1995	The University of California, Berkeley, MA, Anthropology
1982	The Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, BA, History

Museum Research and Positions
2002-:	Curator/Head, Physical Anthropology Department, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
2003-present:	Research on Early Pliocene Vertebrate fossils from the Woranso-Mille Paleontological site.
1995-2008:	Research on Late Miocene vertebrate fossils, preparation, curation, and analyses of vertebrate fossils from the Middle Awash Valley housed at the Paleoanthropology, Laboratory of the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
1985-1992:	Research Assistant at the Paleoanthropology Laboratory of the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

Academic Positions
2009-:	Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.
2002-:	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.
2002-:	Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University.
2007-:	Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University.
2007-:	Adjunct Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.

Field Research
2003-:	Woranso-Mille project fieldwork (PI)
2003-4:	Paleoanthropological survey of North and Central Afar Rift, Ethiopia.
1989-2007:	Fieldwork in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia.
1997-1999:	Fieldwork in the Mulu Basin, Afar, Ethiopia.
1997:	Konso paleontological research area, Southern Ethiopia.
1997-1998:	Paleoanthropological survey of the entire Afar Region, Ethiopia.
1996:	Konso paleontological research area, Southern Ethiopia;
1991:	Konso-Gardula and Weyto, Southern Ethiopia
1989-90:	Fejej, Burji, Kesem-Kebena, and Langano, Ethiopia.
1988-89:	Kesem-Kebena, Chorora, and Melka Werer, Ethiopia.

Teaching Experience
2007-:	Instructor, Cleveland State University (Dep’t of BGES), Human Paleontology.
2003-:	Instructor, Case Western Reserve University (Dep’t of Anthropology), Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence.
1994-1998:	UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Osteology
1997:	UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Paleontology.

Research Grants
2008:	The National Geographic Society for laboratory work and continuation of excavation in Ethiopia.
2008:	Cleveland Museum of Natural History for purchase of field vehicle.
2007:	Leakey Foundation grant to conduct curation of fossils in Ethiopia.
2006-2008:	National Science Foundation grant (BCS-0542037) for Woranso-Mille Project.
2005:	The Louise and David Ingalls Foundation.
2005:	Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project.
2005:	Leakey Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project.
2005:	The National Geographic Society for Woranso-Mille Project fieldwork.
2004:	Leakey Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project fieldwork.
2004:	Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project fieldwork.
2004:	RHOI (NSF) grant for Paleoanthropological survey in Ethiopia.
2003:	National Science Foundation grant (BCS-0234320) for Paleoanthropological Survey in Ethiopia.
2002:	Leakey Foundation grant for Paleoanthropological Survey in Ethiopia.

Fellowships and Awards
2009-:	Institute for the Science of Origins, Case Western Reserve University, Fellow.
2007:	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.
2005:	The Jared Potter Kirtland Award for outstanding professional achievement in the field of Natural Science.
1999:	The George D. Lauderback Award for Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.
1998:	Integrative Biology Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley.
1997:	Dissertation Improvement Grant, the National Science Foundation.
1997:	Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley.
1992:	Developing Countries Training Fellowship, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Professional Society Memberships
2006-:	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
2005-:	Ohio Academy of Sciences
2000-:	American Paleoanthropology Society
2003-:	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1996–2000:	American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Academic Services
2006-:	Associate Editor, Kirtlandia, the scientific publication of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
1998-:	Permanent Council member of the International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology.
2003-:	Steering Committee member of the Evolutionary Biology Program at the Dep’t of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.

Journal and Grant Referee
Leakey Foundation
National Science Foundation
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Geobios
Palaios
Anthropological Science

Graduate and Undergraduate Student Advisees
Lauren Sarringhaus Adopt-A-Student trainee, Summer 2003
Stephanie Melillo, Adopt-A-Student trainee, Summer 2004
Erin Willman, Adopt-A-Student trainee, Summer 2005
Michelle Penney, Adopt-A-Student trainee, Summer 2006
Heather Hillenbrand, Honors thesis external reader, 2009
Stephanie Melillo, Graduate Student, Stanford University, Dissertation Committee Member, 2007-
Haylay Gebreyesus, Graduate student, Addis Ababa University, Advisor, 2009-

Publications

(Over 100 citations in the Science Citation Index)

In Press:	Deino, A., Scott, G., Saylor, B., Alene, M., and Haile-Selassie, Y. 40Ar/39Ar dating, paleomagnetism, and tephrochemistry of Pliocene strata of the hominid-bearing Woranso-Mille area, west-central Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Published online. doi: J Hum Evol (2009), doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.001.
2009:	Geraads, D., Melillo, S. M., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Middle Pliocene Bovidae from hominid-bearing sites in the northwestern Woranso-Mille area, Afar region, Ethiopia. Palaeontologia Africana, 44: 57–68.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Saylor, B.Z., Deino, A., Alene, M, and Latimer, B.M. New Hominid Fossils from Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia) and Taxonomy of Early Australopithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Published online. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21159.
2009:	White, T. D., Asfaw, B., Beyene, Y., Haile-Selassie, Y., Lovejoy, O. C., Suwa, G., and WoldeGabriel, G. 2009. Ardipithecus ramidus and the palebiology of early hominids. Science 326:65, 75-86.
2009:	White, T. D., Ambrose, S. H., Suwa, G., Su, D. F., DeGusta, D., Bernor, R. L., Boisserie, J.-R., Brunet, M., Delson, E., Frost, S., Garcia, N., Giaourtsakis, I. X., Haile-Selassie, Y., Howell, F. C., Lehmann, T., Likius, A., Pehlevan, C., Saegusa, H., Semprebon, G., Teaford, M., and Vrba, E. 2009. Macrovertebrate paleontology and the Pliocene habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 326:67, 87-93.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., and WoldeGabriel, G. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Berkeley. University of California Press. 626p.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., and WoldeGabriel, G. Chapter 1: Introduction. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 1-25. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Giday WoldeGabriel, Hart, W. K., Renne, P. R., Haile-Selassie, Y., and White, T. D. Chapter 2: Stratigraphy of the Adu-Asa Formation. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 27-61. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Hart, W. K., WoldeGabriel, G., Haile-Selassie, Y., and Renne, P. R. Chapter 3: Volcanic Record of the Adu-Asa Formation. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 63-91. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Renne, P. R., Morgan, L., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W. K., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 4: 40Ar/39Ar ages of the Middle Awash late Miocene. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 93-103. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Frost, S. R., Haile-Selassie, Y., and Hlusko, L. J. Chapter 6: Cercopithecidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 135-158. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Suwa, G., and White, T. D. Chapter 7: Hominidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 159-236. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., and Howell, F. C. Chapter 8: Carnivora. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 237-275. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Vrba, E. S., and Bibi, F. Chapter 9: Bovidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 277-330. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 10: Suidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 331-371. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Boisserie, J.-R., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 11: Hippopotamidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 373-387. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 12: Giraffidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 389-395. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Bernor, R. L., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 13: Equidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 397-428. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Giaourtsakis, I. X., Pehlevan, C., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 14: Rhinocerotidae. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 429-468. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Saegusa, H., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 15: Proboscidea. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 469-516. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Su, D. F., Ambrose, S., Degusta, D., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Chapter 17: Paleoenvironment. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 521-547. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Bernor, R. L., Haile-Selassie, Y., and Rook, L. Paleobiogeography. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 549-563. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., White, T. D., Bernor, R. L., Rook, L., and Vrba, E. S. Chapter 19: Biochronology, Faunal Turnover, and Evolution. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 565-583. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Haile-Selassie, Y., and WoldeGabriel, G. Chapter 20: Conclusions. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. pp. 585-595. Berkeley, University of California Press.
2009:	Carretero, J. M., Haile-Selassie, Y., and Arsuaga, J. L. A partial distal humerus from Middle Pleistocene Deposits at Bodo, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Anthropological Science, 117:19-31.
2008:	Haile-Selassie, Y. New observations on the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Lutrinae (Mustelidae: Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Awash, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Palevol., 7:557-569.
2008:	Louchart, A., Haile-Selassie, Y., Vignaud, P., Likius, A., and Brunet, M. Fossil birds from the Late Miocene of Chad and Ethiopia and zoogeographical implications. Oryctos, 7:147-167.
2007:	Hlusko, L. J. and Haile-Selassie, Y., and David Degusta. Late Miocene Bovidae (Mammalia:Artiodactyla) from Lemudong’o, Narok District, Kenya. Kirtlandia, 56:163-172.
2007:	Hlusko, L. J., and Haile-Selassie, Y. Nyanzachoerus syrticus (Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Late Miocene of Lemudong’o. Kenya. Kirtlandia, 56:152-157.
2007:	Stanley H. Ambrose, Christopher J. Bell, Raymond L. Bernor, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Christyann M. Darwent, David Degusta, Alan Deino, Nuria Garcia, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Jason J. Head, F. Clark Howell, Mwanzia David Kyule, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Eliud M. Mathu, Christopher M. Nyamai, Martin Pickford, Haruo Saegusa, Thomas A. Stidham, Martin A. J. Williams, and Leslea J. Hlusko. Submitted. The Paleoecology and Paleogeographic Context of Lemudong’o Locality 1, a Late Miocene Terrestrial Fossil Site in Southern Kenya. Kirtlandia, 56:38-52.
2007:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Deino, A., Saylor, B., Umer, M., and Latimer, B. Preliminary geology and paleontology of new hominid-bearing Pliocene localities in the central Afar region of Ethiopia. Anthropological Science. 115(3):215-222.
2007:	Suwa, G., Asfaw, B. Haile-Selassie, Y., White, T.D., Shigehiro Katoh , K., WoldeGabriel, G., William, K.H., Nakaya, H., Beyene Y., Early Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Konso, Southern Ethiopia. Anthropological Science. 115(2):133-151.
2006:	White, T. D., WoldeGabriel, G., Asfaw, B., Ambrose, S., Beyene, Y., Bernor, R. L., Boisserie, J-R., Currie, B., Gilbert, H., Haile-Selassie, Y., Hart, W. K., Hlusko, L. J., Howell, F. C., Kono, R. T., Lehmann, T., Louchart, A., Lovejoy, C. O., Renne, P. R., Saegusa, H., Vrba, E. S., Wesselman, H. and Suwa, G. Asa Issie, Aramis and the Origin of Australopithecus. Nature, 440:883-889.
2006:	Vrba, E. S. and Haile-Selassie, Y. A new antelope Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus (Reduncini, Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the late Miocene of the Middle Awash, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26(1):213-218.
2005:	Bernor, R. L., Scott, R. S. Haile-Selassie, Y. A contribution to the evolutionary history of Ethiopian hipparionine horses (Mammalia, Equidae):morphometric evidence from the postcranial skeleton. Geodiversitas, 27(1):133-158.
2004:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Hlusko, L. J., Howell, F. C. A new species of Plesiogulo (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of Africa. Paleontologia Africana, 40:85-88.
2004:	Howell F. C., White T.D., Begun D. R., Chaimanee Y., de Lumley M. A., Gingerich P. D., Groves C., Gulec E., Haile-Selassie Y., Hlusko L., Jaeger J. J., Kelley L., Kohler M., Liu W., Lordkipanidze D., Lovejoy C. O., Martin L. B., McCrossin M. L., Moggi-Cecchi J., Moya-Sola S., Rook L., Smith P., Suwa G., Teaford M., Tobias P. V., Walker A., Walker P., and Ward S. Geological issues in the Djourab. South African Journal of Science 100:446.
2004:	Haile-Selassie, Y., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T. D., Bernor, R. L., Degusta, D., Renne, P. R., Hart, W. K., Ambrose, S., Vrba, E., and Howell, F. C. Mio-Pliocene Mammals from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Geobios. 37:536-552.
2004:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Suwa, G., and White, T. D. Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution. Science, 303:1503-1505.
2004:	Haile-Selassie, Y., White, T. D. and Asfaw, B. Hominid Cranial Remains from the Upper Pleistocene Deposits at Aduma, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 123:1-10.
2001:	Haile-Selassie, Y. Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature, 412, 178-181.
2001:	WoldeGabriel, G., Haile-Selassie, Y., Renne, P.R., Hart, W.K., Ambrose, S.H., Asfaw, B., Heiken, G., and White, T.D. Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia. Nature, 412, 175-178.
2001:	Haile-Selassie, Y. Photos may offer clues over Ethiopian fossil site. Nature. 412:118.
1994:	Clark, J.D., deHeinzelin, J., Schick, K., Hart, W., White, T.D., WoldeGabriel, G., Walter, R.C., Suwa, G., Asfaw, B., Vrba, E., and H.-Selassie, Y. African Homo erectus: Old Radiometric Dates and Young Oldowan Assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Science, 264:1907-1910.
1990:	Haile-Selassie, Y., Hagos, T. and Hundie, G. An overview of the Stone Age sites of Gadeb, Melka Konture and Beseka: Ethiopia. In: R. Pankhrust, A. Zekaria and T. Beyene, Eds., Proceedings of the First National Conference of Ethiopian Studies. pp.273-287. Institute of Ethiopian Studies. Addis Ababa University.

Publications in review and preparation
In prep.	Lovejoy, C.O., Latimer, B.M., and Haile-Selassie, Y. The Oldest Australopithecus Postcranium: Human uniqueness is Ancient. Nature.
Submitted	Haile-Selassie, Y. Evolutionary Tempo and Mode in Early Australopithecus: Insights from New Fossil Evidence. Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B).
In prep.	Haile-Selassie, Y. and Simpson, S. W. A new species of Kolpochoerus (Mammalia, Suidae) from the Pliocene of Central Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Meeting Abstracts
2009:	Y. Haile-Selassie. Evolutionary Tempo and Mode in Early Australopithecus: Insights from New Fossil Evidence. “The Last 4 Million Years of Human Evolution,” Royal Society of London. London, United Kingdom, October 19-20, 2009.
2009:	Y. Haile-Selassie. Woranso-Mille: A New Window into the Human Past. International Symposium: “Africa, Cradle of Humanity: Recent Discoveries.” Setif, Algeria, October 26-28, 2009.
2008:	Y. Haile-Selassie. New early Pliocene hominids from Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia) and the question of phyletic evolution in early Australopithecus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28(3):87A.
2008:	Y. Haile-Selassie. Woranso-Mille: a new window to the Pliocene of Africa. International Conference on Ethiopian Paleoanthropology at the Millennium, January 12-14, 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2007:	S. S. Frost, Y. Haile-Selassie, and L. Hlusko. Late Miocene Cercopithecidae from the Middle Awash, Afar, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S41:111.
2007:	Y. Haile-Selassie, B. Latimer, A. Deino, B. Saylor, and M. Umer. The Mille-Chifra-Kasagita Triangle: A New Hominid-Bearing Early Pliocene Site in the Central Afar Region of Ethiopia. Paleoanthropology (online publication), Paleoanthropology Society Meeting Abstracts, Philadelphia, PA, 27-28 March, 2007:A10.
2006:	Y. Haile-Selassie. The suid Nyanzachoerus australis and biochronology of the Langeberg Quartzose Sand Member (LQSM), Langebaanweg, South Africa. African Natural History, 2:185.
2006:	Y. Haile-Selassie and Faysal Bibi. Bovinae (Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from Mio-Pliocene Deposits of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. 66th Annual Meeting, October 18 - 21, 2006, Marriott Ottawa/The Crowne Plaza Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2006:	Y. Haile-Selassie and B. Latimer. Paleontological Survey and Exploration of the Mille-Chifra-Kasagita Triangle, Central Afar, Ethiopia (2003-2005). “Lucy, 30 Years Later”. June 12-14, 2006 at CEREGE, Europôle de l'Arbois, Aix en Provence, France.
2004:	Y. Haile-Selassie. Suid Paleogeographic Connections between Eurasia and Africa in the Late Miocene. Abstract. 32nd International Geological Congress. Florence, Italy, 2004.
2004:	Y. Haile-Selassie, R. L. Bernor, B. I. Shundong, and T. D. White. Late Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia and Its Paleobiogeographic Relationships with Eurasia. Abstract. 32nd International Geological Congress. Florence, Italy, 2004.
2003:	Ambrose, S. H., WoldeGabriel, G., Haile-Selassie, Y. and White, T. (Abstract) Determining early hominid habitats in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, using paleosol stable isotopes. Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting. Tempe, Arizona. Published online at http://www.paleoanthro.org/abst2003.htm
2003:	Haile-Selassie, Y. (Abstract). A Late Miocene Hominid from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Its Relationship with Contemporary Hominoid Taxa. Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting. Tempe, Arizona. Published online at http://www.paleoanthro.org/abst2003.htm (2003)
2000:	Haile-Selassie, Y. and Asfaw, B. A newly discovered Early Pliocene hominid bearing paleontological site in the Mulu Basin, Ethiopia. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., Supplement 30:170.
1998:	Haile-Selassie, Y. Middle Stone Age hominids from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Abstracts of Contributions to the Dual Congress 1998, Sun City, South Africa. p. 93.
1997:	Asfaw, B., Assebework, T., Beyene, Y., Clark, J.D., Curtis, G., de Heinzelin, J., Haile-Selassie, Y., Renne, P., Schick, K., Suwa, G., Vrba, E., White, T.D., WoldeGabriel, G. and Zeleke, Y. Fossil hominids, fauna and artifacts from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., Supplement 24: 69.
1994:	Haile-Selassie, Y. and Suwa, G. A New Hominid from Konso-Gardula, Southern Ethiopia: Homo habilis or Homo erectus? Am. J. Phys.Anthrop., Supplement 18: 100.

Distinguished Lectures
2005:	The Strosacker Distinguished Lecture Series, Baldwin-Wallace College, Parma, Ohio.

Invited and Institutional Lectures
2009	The Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, Bloomington: Discovery and Interpretation of Ardipithecus.
2009	Sandusky Bay Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Ohio: Woranso-Mille: A New Window into the Human Past.
2009	Cleveland Museum of Natural History/Institute for the Science of Origins, Case Western Reserve University: Ardipithecus ramidus: Ancient Fossils and New Interpretations.
2009	Fernway Elementary School, Shaker Heights, Ohio: The Discovery of “Ardi”.
2009	Royal Society of London: Discussion Meeting, The Last Four-Million-Years of Human Evolution.
2009	Colloquium Lecture, Penn State University, State College, PA
2008	Human Evolution Symposium, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007	Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
2007	Curator’s Forum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio.
2007	Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
2007	Toledo Area Aboriginal Research Society, Toledo, Ohio.
2006	Curator’s Forum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio.
2006	Department of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
2005	Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Stewardship Society
2005	Curator’s Forum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio.
2005	Department of anthropology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
2005	Northeast Ohio Geological Society Banquet Lecture, Montrose, Ohio.
2005	North Coast Fossil club, Parma, Ohio.
2003	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne, Illinois.
2002	CRAFT, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
2002	Curator’s Forum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio.
2002	Evolutionary Biology Program, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
2001	Geological Sciences and Planetary Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
2001	Leakey Foundation for Anthropological Research, San Francisco, California

Thesis
2001:	Haile-Selassie, Y. 2001. Late Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. 425pp.