Adane Zawdu: Fellowship from the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study

Adane Zawdu received a fellowship from the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. During this four year fellowship, Adane will be studying the changing relations between ethnic culture and skin color among Ethiopian Israelis, from the early years of migration to today. He will focus on how categories of difference and group formation are linked to particular social spaces, networks, opportunities, and policing, as well as the social and political consequences of the changing classification structure.