Michael Gervers is the founder, and director, of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS) and, together with Ewa Balicka-Witakowska of Uppsala University, established Mazgaba Se’elet, an online database of over 65,000 photographs, largely his own, of Ethiopian art and culture (UserID and Password: student).
He is presently working with Paulina Rousseau in a UTSC Library project which will make the entire manuscript collection of the 15th-century Ethiopian monastery at Gunda Gunde (Tigray Province) available on line.