Assistant Teaching Professor
Fields of Interest
Research
Selected Research
- Two Hundred Täˀammərä Maryam (Miracles of Mary) Stories, ed. Wendy Laura Belcher, Jeremy Brown, Mehari Worku, Dawit Muluneh. Princeton: Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary project. pemm.princeton.edu.
- Worku, Mehari. "The language of the smart: Sociolinguistic and linguistic features of the Amharic urban youth language." Ebongue, Emmanue and G. Atindogbe Eds. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings. Langaa RPCIG, 2019.
- How Multilingual Policies can Fail: Language Politics among Ethiopian Political Parties. In African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected Papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Major Travis et al. (eds.). Germany, Language Science Press, 2018. Download PDF
- Mary in the Poetic Theological Works of the Syriac Tradition: A study on Ephrem the Syrian, Jacob of Serugh and Narsai of Nisibis. In The Alexandria School Journal. Alexandria: Agora University Press, 2021.
- 15th-century Ethiopian Orthodox Ecclesiology in Giyorgis of Sägla’s Mäṣhafä Məsṭir, Washington DC, Catholic University of America (Unpublished dissertation)
- Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. 2023. The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities. Translated by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, Wendy Laura Belcher, and Jeremy R. Brown. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Related News
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- From the Chair (February 21, 2025)
- MELC Updates 2024-2025 (February 18, 2025)
- Introducing Mehari Worku and Our New Horn of Africa Program at UW (February 18, 2025)
- MELC Event Celebrates The Horn of Africa @ UW (February 6, 2025)