{"id":1438,"date":"2026-08-03T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=1438"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:26:20","slug":"demelash-belachew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=1438","title":{"rendered":"Demelash Belachew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"139\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/demelash-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1593\" style=\"width:165px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Full Name: Demelash Belachew Mekonnen<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Specialization: Archaeology and Historic Art<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Academic Rank: Lecturer<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Department: History and Heritage Management<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Phone: +251918664257\/+251913122005<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Institutional and alternative email address: <a href=\"mailto:abeje_birhanu@dmu.edu.et\">demelash_belachew@dmu.edu.et<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:abejeb11@gmail.com\">demdemzhabesha@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Research Interest:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>1. Sustainable Cultural Tourism &amp; Community Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Balancing the economic benefits of tourism with the preservation of cultural sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>2.Community-Engaged &amp; Living Heritage Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Examining how local communities interact with tangible and intangible heritage, focusing on participatory conservation models, indigenous knowledge integration, rights-based approaches to heritage management, and balancing local rights with tourism demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>3. Archaeometry &amp; Material Culture Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Applying physical sciences and quantitative techniques to study artifacts and material<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>4. Community Archaeology and Public Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Examines how local communities interact with and participate in the discovery, interpretation, and management of their own cultural heritage. This field explores ways to <strong>democratize archaeology<\/strong>, ensuring that indigenous or local voices are prioritized over top-down academic or government narratives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>5. Sacred Architecture and Spatial Archaeology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Investigating the design, aesthetic evolution, and spatial layout of ancient temples, tombs, and religious monuments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>6.Cross-Cultural Exchange and Global Artistic Networks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Studying how artistic ideas, styles, techniques, and visual traditions crossed geographical and cultural borders due to trade, diplomacy, pilgrimage, or migration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Name: Demelash Belachew Mekonnen Specialization: Archaeology and Historic Art Academic Rank: Lecturer Department: History and Heritage Management Phone: +251918664257\/+251913122005 Institutional and alternative email address: demelash_belachew@dmu.edu.et and demdemzhabesha@gmail.com Research Interest: 1. Sustainable Cultural Tourism &amp; Community Engagement Focus: Balancing the economic benefits of tourism with the preservation of cultural sites. 2.Community-Engaged &amp; Living Heritage Management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1438\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}