- Full Name: Mihret Walelign Mengstu.
Mihret Walelign is a Lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Sociology at Debre Markos University, Ethiopia. He holds a Master’s degree in European Interdisciplinary Masster of African Studies (EIMAS) programme from University of Porto, Bayreuth, and Bordeaux Montaigne, and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Gondar.
- Specialization: Sociology, African Studies, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Sociology of everyday life.
- Academic Rank: Lecturer (MA)
- Department: Sociology
- Phone number: 0912037286
- Institutional email: mihret_walelign@dmu.edu.et
- Research Interests: Human Mobility and Integration, Sociology of Everyday Life, Identity Politics, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Qualitative Studies, Development and Social Change, Diversity and Social Cohesion.
- Publication:
- Mihret Walelign & Brook Kebede. (2025). Caught Between Lines: The Recognition and Lived Realities of Mixed-Ethnic Heritage Individuals in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Science and Humanities.
- Brook Kebede & Mihret Walelign (2025) Legal Recognition and Self Identification of People with Mixed Ethnic Identities in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Legal Studies Journal.
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1088-6349?lang=en
- Grant: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Recipient, European Union