Bula Wayessa

Publications

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2023). Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2023). My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia. African Archaeological Review.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2023). “Homeland politics, imagined homeland, and the formation of Oromo diaspora identity” African Identities.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2022). "Sweeteners are not always sweet: the social and economic consequences of the growing demand for sugar in Ethiopia" International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology 6:5

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2021). No One Remains Living in the Past’: the Dynamics of Pottery Technological Styles in Southwestern Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 56, 115-139.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2020). Prepared in pots, served in plastics: rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy. Ethnography,

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2020). Whose development? The dilemma of rural artisan women in southwestern Ethiopia. Anthropology Today , 36, 20-23.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2020). ‘They deceived us’: Narratives of Addis Ababa development-induced displaced peasants. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 12, 67-75.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). EARTH: The Dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation: 3 volume set, edited by Patricia C. Anderson, Leonor Pena-Chocarro and Andreas G. Heiss, Series-Landscape Archaeology, Oxbow Books: Oxford and Havertown, PA. Journal of Ethnoarchaeology , 12, 64-66.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2018). Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica): An ethnoarchaeological study of a tuber viewed as a relative of women in the Wallaga region of southwestern Ethiopia.  Journal of Ethnoarchaeology, 34-55.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2017). "We are not alone”: conceptualizing people-things relationship in the Oromo community in North America." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies , 4.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika, Gangul, A., & Burka, T (2016). “I have to resemble my ancestors through modification of midline diastema”: an An ethnoarchaeological study of practice and motives of dental modification among Karrayyu Oromo, central Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnoarchaeology , 8, 57-68.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2015). “Say let it be spared from eyes for a ware cannot survive eyes:” Personification of pots among Oromo of Wallagga, Ethiopia. Journal of Social Archaeology , 15, 387-407.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika, Lyons, D. & Kooyman (2015). An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Brewing Technology in Wallaga Region of Western Oromia, Ethiopia. Journal of African Archaeology, 13, 99-114.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2011). The technical style of Wallaga pottery making: An ethnoarchaeological study of Oromo potters in southwest highland Ethiopia. African Archaeological Review, 28, 301-326.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2011). Socialization, Symbolism, and Structures: Aspects of Traditional Pottery Making among the Jimma Oromo, Western Oromia. Journal of Oromo Studies, 17, 72-102.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2011). Buna Qalaa: A Quest for Traditional Uses of Coffee among Oromo People with Special Emphasis on Wallaga, Ethiopia. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, 43.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2011). An ethnographic study of traditional pottery making, artisan women, and tuber crop consumption technology in Wallaga, Oromia, Ethiopia.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2009). Socio-economic Status of Handicraft Women among Macca Oromo of West Wallaga, Southwest Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Education and Sciences, 4, 1-15.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2020). Jiruu fi Jireenya Hawaasa Suphee Dha’un Jiraatani. BBC Afaan Oromoo.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). The ‘Bittersweet’ Legacy of Sugar for Africans. Addis Fortune.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). Maekelawi becomes a museum while Kumsa Moroda Palace Museum turns into a Detention center. The Reporter.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). Why the annual ritual ceremony of Ethiopia’s Oromo is a symbol of an indigenous resurgence in Africa. Facet 2 Face Africa.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). The Globalisation of Teff: implications for Ethiopia. Addis Fortune.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika (2019). Did the Dutch “steal” this African food?. BBC-Travel.

• Wayessa, Bula Sirika. (2023) Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies

Activities

Awards

• International Travel Grant Award,Global Programs and Strategy Alliance,University of Minnesota, 2024
• Imagine Fund, University of Minnesota, 2023
• Grant-in-Aid, University of Minnesota, 2022
• Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, The Wenner Gren Foundation, 2020
• The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme Grant, The British Museum, 2020
• National Geographic Society, 2016
• National Geographic Society, 2012
• Teachers Development Program, Jimma University, 2009
• Teachers Development Program, Jimma University, 2008
• Teachers Development Program, Jimma University, 2007

Courses

• AFRO 3013 - Cities and States in Ancient Africa
• AFRO 3910 - Topics in African Studies: Food, Agriculture, and African Connections
• BLK 200 - Introduction to Africa
• BLK 201 - Black Studies I
• ARKY 201 - Introduction to Archaeology
• ANTH 317 - Ethnographic survey of Africa south of the Sahara
• ARKY 325 - Ancient Civilizations
• Food Sovereignty in Africa (Afro 3015/5015/Anth 3037/5037)
• AFRO 1131-Contemporary Issues in Africa