Dr. Tekle Woldemikael

Professor wilkinson college of arts, humanities, and social sciences; department of sociology.

Tekle M. Woldemikael is a Professor of Sociology, with expertise in areas of Ethnicity, Race, and Refugees. He has years of teaching experience in a broad range of settings, including two years of teaching at the University of Gezira in Sudan and various colleges in the United States, including Chapman University, the University of Redlands, Whittier College, Hamilton College, and the University of Hartford. Some of the classes he has taught are urban Sociology, Principles of Sociology, Bridging Theory and Methods, Research Methods, Social Theory, Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Sociology of Development, Social Movements, Class, and Inequality, Cultural and Structural Inquiry, Ethnographic Methods, and Modern Africa. He has taught in the Honors Programs at Chapman University and the University of Redlands. His most recent research focuses on immigrants and refugees in the US and the nation-building efforts in Eritrea and the Horn of Africa.