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Former Visiting Research Fellow
June 20, 2001 - September 25, 2001
The ASC is sorry to inform you that Dr. Alexander
Naty, a former visiting scholar from Eritrea at the ASC,
died on Tuesday, 9 December 2003.
GEDAB NEWS Dec
9, 2003, 11:01pm
Dr. Alexander Naty, the former head
of University of Asmara’s Department of Archeology and
Anthropology, died today due to complications caused by
cerebral malaria.
Dr. Alexander Naty earned his
Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University in 1992
and conducted his post-doctorate studies at Yale
University. In 1994, he moved to Eritrea and was
instrumental in setting up the University of Asmara’s
Department of Archeology and Anthropology, where he
served as Department Chair and lecturer. Well known for
his studies of the Kunama culture as well as various
Eritrean languages, he is widely published and respected
and has served as a visiting scholar in many
institutions of higher learning.
As reported by
Gedab News on October 22, Dr. Alexander Naty, along with
his colleague Dr. Abdulkader Saleh, were briefly
detained and then fired from their jobs after they
returned from an “unauthorized” conference they attended
in Germany. Dr. Alexander Naty, who was 44 years old, is
survived by his parents, his wife, Aster, and his
daughter, Amaale, which means “surprise” in his native
language, Kunama. A distraught family friend described
Dr. Alexander Naty's death as a "huge loss for
Eritrea."
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