Adom Getachew

{{Short description|Ethiopian-American political scientist}}

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| workplaces = University of Chicago

| alma_mater = University of Virginia, Yale University

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| main_interests = history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory

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| website = {{URL|political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/adom-getachew}}

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Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.{{Cite web|title=Adom Getachew {{!}} Political Science {{!}} The University of Chicago|url=https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/adom-getachew|access-date=2021-04-26|website=political-science.uchicago.edu}} She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.{{Cite book|last=Getachew|first=Adom|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3znwvg|title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination|date=2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctv3znwvg |jstor=j.ctv3znwvg |isbn=978-0-691-17915-5}}{{Cite journal|last=Dasgupta|first=Sandipto|date=2020-06-01|title=Review of Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820939633|journal=Millennium|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=351–359|doi=10.1177/0305829820939633|s2cid=231809273 |issn=0305-8298|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Marshall|first=Jenna|date=2020-06-01|title=Postcolonial Paradoxes, Ambiguities of Self-determination and Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820939618|journal=Millennium|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=340–350|doi=10.1177/0305829820939618|s2cid=225418273 |issn=0305-8298|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Gerits|first=Frank|date=2020|title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Edited by Adom Getachew. Princeton University Press. 2019. xii + 271pp. £27.00.|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-229X.12993|journal=History|language=en|volume=105|issue=366|pages=540–542|doi=10.1111/1468-229X.12993|s2cid=225514242 |issn=1468-229X}}{{Cite web|title=H-Diplo Roundtable XXI-13 on Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination {{!}} H-Diplo {{!}} H-Net|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/5305954/h-diplo-roundtable-xxi-13-worldmaking-after-empire-rise-and-fall|access-date=2021-04-26|website=networks.h-net.org}}

Adom was awarded a PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015.{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=Zara |date=2023-02-13 |title=Adom Getachew on Anticolonial Worldmaking of the Past and Present |url=https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2023/02/13/adom-getachew-on-anticolonial-worldmaking-of-the-past-and-present/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Georgetown Journal of International Affairs |language=en-US}} She was born in Ethiopia. She was raised in Ethiopia and Botswana until the age of 13, when her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, United States.{{Cite web|title=H-Diplo Essay 309- Adom Getachew on Learning the Scholar's Craft {{!}} H-Diplo {{!}} H-Net|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/7185277/h-diplo-essay-309-adom-getachew-learning-scholars-craft|date= 2021-02-02|access-date=2021-04-26|website=networks.h-net.org}}{{Cite web|date=2008-02-15|title=Adom Getachew Named New Student Member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors|url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/adom-getachew-named-new-student-member-university-virginia-board-visitors|first=Rebecca P. |last=Arrington|access-date=2021-04-26|website=UVA Today|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=World makers of the Black Atlantic|url=https://www.eurozine.com/world-makers-of-the-black-atlantic/|author=Adom Getachew|author2=Ashish Ghadiali|date=2022-09-22|access-date=2021-04-26|website=www.eurozine.com}}