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Alexander Meckelburg is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at University College London, focusing on the intellectual global history of abolition in Ethiopia. His research explores the historical memory of slavery and its interaction with contemporary political and social issues. He is a member of the ERC-funded project African Abolitionism: Rise Transformations Anti-Slavery Africa (AFRAB) and has previously served as an editorial assistant for the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and as a research fellow at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has conducted extensive fieldwork across western and southern Ethiopia, as well as in Kenya, utilizing a multi-faceted approach to explore the historical contexts that shape contemporary social dynamics. His research interests encompass the transitions of slavery, emancipation, labor, migration, and the trajectories of citizenship and political history in Northeast and Eastern Africa. Currently, he is co-editing a special issue on slavery and the slave trade in Ethiopian studies for the Supplement Aethiopica Series. His doctoral thesis examined the concept of citizenship and the experiences of minority groups along Ethiopia’s western frontier.