Curriculum Vitae

Aynalem Adugna
Graduate Assistant 1982/83

Graduate Assistant Addis Ababa University, Department of

Geography 1982-83

Lecturer: Demography 1985/86

Addis Ababa University. Demographic Training and Research

Center - DTRC

Lecturer: 1992 – present

Sonoma State University

Department of Geography
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928 USA
707-664-2194
http://www.sonoma.edu/geography/

Courses taught:

Population Geography

The impacts of physical factors: climate, landforms – vegetation , soil. Global

Warming. The distribution of tropical and other infectious human/animal diseases.
The impacts of human factors: economy, history, social factors – marriage,
education, family planning, traditions and customs, diffusion of information, the
impacts of government policies. Populationcomposition. Population dynamics –
temporal and spatial – mortality, fertility, migration levels, trends, and
differentials.
Student Papers (more than 100) included the following regions and topics:

Regional coverage:

USA and Canada

Mexico and Other Latin American Countries
Other Developing Countries
Western and Eastern Europe

General topics covered:

- Population Distribution, population and Environment, the impacts of global

warming
- Mortality – Child, maternal, mortality trends among the very old (75+) in the
US
- Fertility – Spatial Variations, Less Developed Countries, the impacts of high
childhood mortality, differential by migration status (US), differential by
countries of origin (US)
- Migrations – US: between states, out of inner cities, time-series, migration
and suburbanization, Latin America

Medical Geography

History of diseases and impacts on civilizations, impacts of diseases on historical

mortality trends and population movements. The role of health care services –
distribution, quality, and accessibility. The impacts of physical factors: climate,
landforms, global warming. The impacts of human factors: economy, history,
social factors – traditions and customs, diffusion of Information. The Impacts of
government health policies.

Student Papers (more than 30) included the following regions and topics:

Regional coverage:

USA and Canada

Mexico and Other Latin American Countries
Other Developing Countries
Western and Eastern Europe
General topics covered:

Spatial aspects of human diseases. Tropical Diseases – Malaria, Leishmaniasis,

Dengue Fever – Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, diseases of the “oldest old”, life-style
diseases. Sexually transmitted illnesses. Genetically transmitted diseases.

Social Geography

Theory and Methodology. Geographical approaches in the study of societies.

Spatial variations in socio-cultural practices. The social landscape. The impacts of
geography/location on societies and social interactions. Social organization,
tradition and social conflicts, Feminist Geography, social change, social class,
social interactions and conflicts, social movements and mobility, spatial aspects of
socialization practices and social structures.

Rural Social Geography: Traditional/farming societies: Social interactions, social

organization in the countryside, cultural values, norms, and mores. The spreading
impacts of globalizations and changing forms of land-use practices on values,
norms, and mores. Rural-rural migrations, rural labor force, child employment,
the crucial productive and reproductive role of women and impacts on family
structures.

Urban Social Geography: Sociospatial dialectic. The Changing economic context

of city life , The social dimensions of modern urbanism, segregation and
congregation, neighbourhood, community, and the social construction of places,
residential mobility and neighbourhood change.

Cultural Geography

Themes in cultural geography – region, diffusion, ecology, integration, landscape.

Demographic regions – high/low fertility/mortality regions, migration typologies.
Agricultural regions – settled farming, nomadic herding, plantation agriculture,
market gardening, livestock-rearing, dairy farms, urban agriculture. Political
regions – electoral geographical regions, the Heartland Theory, multi-ethnicity.
The mosaic of languages – linguistic cultural regions, Language families.
Religious realms – religious culture regions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Animism, Secularization, Sacred spaces. Popular culture -
culture regions, cyberspace, landscape of consumption.

Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography (low enrollment, class cancelled)

Recent publications

Helmut Kloos, AssefaHailemariam and Aynalem Adugna. Population. in

Yemane Berhane, Damen Hailemariamand Helmut Kloos. Eds. The Epidemiology
and Ecology of Health and Disease in Ethiopia. Shama Books. Addis Ababa. 2006.

Helmut Kloos, Yibeltal Assefa, Aynalem Adugna, Mesfin Samuel Mulatu,

Damen Haile Mariam. Utilization of antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia between
February and December 2006: spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns.
International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:45 (25 September 2007)

H. Kloos, J. Lautze, A. Adugna and W. Legesse, Water resources and their

management in the Nile Basin. In: H. Kloos and W. Legesse (eds.), Water
Resources Management in Ethiopia: Implications for the Nile Basin. Cambria
Press, Amherst (in press).

Aynalem Adugna: Ethiopian Demography and Health (A reader). Unpublished

Manuscript (Hard Copy at the Department of Geography AAU). Over 400 pages.
;;;
Aynalem Adugna and Kloos, Helmut. Two population distribution maps for
Ethiopia based on the 1984 census. Northeast African Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1987.
89-95 pp. East Lansing, Michigan.
Aynalem Adugna. The 1984 Drought and Settler Migration. Clarke, John I.,
Curson Peter, Kavastha, S.L. Nag, Prithish (Eds.) Population and Disaster. 1989

Helmut Kloos and Aynalem Adugna. The Ethiopian Population: Growth and
Distribution. The Geographical Journal: Vol 155, No. March 1989, pp. 33-51

Helmut Kloos and Aynalem Adugna. Settler Migration During the 1984/85
Famine in Ethiopia. GeoJournal 19.2, 1989. PP 113-127

Unpublished Dissertations

The Spatial Patterns of the Ethiopian Population. MA Thesis. University of

Durham U.K. 1985.
The Impacts of Migration on Fertility and Mortality in Addis Ababa. Ph.D.
Thesis. University of London. 1991.
Current research:
Advanced GIS final project. Resettlement in Ethiopia: Application of GIS in
Identifying Potential Irrigation-Based Resettlement Areas.

An online project designed to help undergraduate social science students in

Ethiopia with their learning and research needs by making available an online
reference on Ethiopian demography and health. The topics are listed as follows:

Population data sources

Population distribution
Population and the environment
Fertility and mortality levels and trends
Migration and urbanization
Population policy and projection
The medical geography of Ethiopia
For more details please visit www.EthioDemographyAndHealth.Org
Education:

B.A in Geography. Addis Ababa University – 1982

M.A in Population Geography. University of Durham – 1985
PhD in Medical Demography. University of London. London school of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine. – 1991

Currently attending:
Completed: A course in GIS (Geographic Information System) and Advanced
GIS. at the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA), Sonoma State
University (Fall semester – 2008):

Geospatial coordinates, Data models: Vector Data models, Raster Data models,
Attributes and Databases; Query and summary of data, Cartographic design & map
types, Data input: Existing data, Cartography and classification, Digitization &
scanning, Georeferencing and digitization, Field data and GPS, Remote, Sensing,
Metadata, Vector-based spatial analysis, Raster spatial analysis, Spatial modeling,
Internet-based GIS, Data accuracy .
Advanced GIS; Spring Semester 2009
• Site suitability analysis
• Geocoding
• Raster Analysis
• Terrain Analysis
• Spatial Estimation
• Advanced GIS final project. Resettlement in Ethiopia: Application of GIS
in Identifying Potential Irrigation-Based Resettlement Areas in Ethiopia.

Professional membership:

Member, Population Association of America (PAA)

Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Member, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Professional Seminars:

Attended numerous Brown-Bag seminars: UC Berkeley, Demography

Brown-Bag seminars: College of Social Sciences, Sonoma State University

Personal Information
Date of Birth 05/17/1961
Place of birth Nekemte, Ethiopia
Marital status: married
Dependants: Two sons and two daughters

Current residence:

159 Via Bellagio

American Canyon, Ca. 94503
Phone no. (707) 649-1265