Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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-present: 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
2002-: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.
2002-: Adjunct Clinic Professor, Department of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University
Field Research
2004-5: Fieldwork in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia.
2003-: Woranso-Mille project fieldwork (PI)
2003-4: Paleoanthropological survey of North and Central Afar Rift, Ethiopia.
1989-: Feildwork in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia.
1997-1999: Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia; The Mulu Basin, Ethiopia.
1997: Konso paleontological research area, Southern Ethiopia; 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
2003-: Instructor, Case Western Reserve University (Dep’t of Anthropology), Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence.
1998: UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Osteology
1997: UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Paleontology.
1996: UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Osteology
1995: UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Osteology
1994: UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor for Human Osteology
Research Grants
2005-06: National Science Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project.
2004-05: Leakey Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project.
2004-05: Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for the Woranso-Mille Project.
2004: RHOI (NSF) grant for Paleoanthropological survey in Ethiopia.
2002-3: Leakey Foundation grant for Paleoanthropological Survey in Ethiopia.
2002-3: National Science Foundation grant for Paleoanthropological Survey in Ethiopia.
Fellowships and Awards
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.
Distinguished Lectures
2005 The Strosacker Distinguished Lecture Series, Baldwin-Wallace College, Parma, Ohio.
Invited and Institutional Lectures
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
Academic Services
2006-: Associate Editor, Kirtilandia, 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.


Publications

(Over 100 citations in the Science Citation Index)
(In Preparation): Haile-Selassie, Y. and WoldeGabriel, G. (Eds.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Timing and the Paleoenvironment. The University of California Press. Berkeley.
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.
Thesis
2001: Haile-Selassie, Y. 2001. Late Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. 425pp.
Meeting Abstracts
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.
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