sentences:  While in Addis Ababa, she spent six months as a Fulbright Professor at Addis Ababa University in the Theater Arts Department, which was at that time under the chairmanship of Tesfaye Gessesse.In 1976, she received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA.For her Ph.D. dissertation, she focused on the theory and practice of "qenet" (mode) among "masenqo" players of the Amhara people of Ethiopia, which she recorded in and around Addis Ababa.