Scientific Committee

Co-presidents :

Dr. Bezabeh Wolde, Sp. Sc. Dept, AAU

Dr. Manuel Schotté, Sp. Sc. Dept, Lille University, France, board member of Société de Sociologie du Sport de Langue Française (3SLF).

Members :

Prof. Hannu Itkonen, Professor in Sport Sociology, Vice-President of European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS), Finland.

Prof. Jacques Defrance, Sp. Sc. Dept, Université Paris 10 Nanterre, founding-president of Société de Sociologie du Sport de Langue Française (3SLF), France     

Prof. Mahamet Timera, Dept of Sociology, director of URMIS research unit, France         

Prof. Nicolas Bancel, Institut des Sciences du Sport, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland      

Prof. Paschal Mihyo, executive director, Organization for Social Science in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Ethiopia

Prof. Steve Jackson, School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercice Sciences, University of Otago, deputy president of International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), New Zeland

Dr. Anne-Marie Peatrik, emeritus senior research fellow in Anthropology, CNRS, France

Dr. David Ambrosetti, director of Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE), Ethiopia

Dr. Alain Froment, IRD senior research fellow in Biological Anthropology, France

Dr. Aude Rabaud, Dept of Sociology, Université Paris Diderot, France

Dr. Elisabeth Cunin, IRD research fellow in anthropology, deputy-director of URMIS research unit, France

Dr. Giulia Bonacci, IRD research fellow in history of Ethiopia

Dr. Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, director, French Research Institute in Africa, IFRA, Kenya

Dr. Marie-Pierre Ballarin, IRD research fellow in history of Kenya

Dr. Nicolas Puig, IRD research fellow in anthropology, France

Dr. Sébastien Darbon, CNRS research fellow in anthropology, France

Dr. Stéphane Rennesson CNRS research fellow in anthropology, France

Dr. Benoit Gaudin, IRD research fellow, AAU, Ethiopia.