KU Africanist Faculty - HIJK

Index of biographies by last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Mickey Imber
Tenured Professor of Educational Administration; at KU since 1980
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980
Ed.M., University of Rochester, 1975
B.A., University of Rochester, 1969
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Educational policy, ethics and law; educational administration; comparative education.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Education Law (3rd edition), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
A Teacher's Guide to Education Law (3rd edition), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005
"Equity in School Funding," American School Board Journal, 191:10 (October 2004), 50-52, 62.
"Adequacy in School Funding," American School Board Journal, 191:11 (November 2004), 46-47
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Educational Administration
Educational Policy, Ethics, and Law American
Educational Reform Movements: Past and Present
Current Issues in Educational Administration
Foundations of Education
LANGUAGES:
English, fluent in French
DISTINCTIONS:
USIA funded grant/award to consult at a school in Haiti, 1998
Recent exchange visitor to Senegal for research collaboration in education, 1997& 2000.

Jane Irungu; at KU since 1998
Associate Director, Kansas African Studies Center
Director , Teacher Summer Insitute

Education
Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (Higher Ed. Administration)
University of Kansas, 2010
Master of Science in Education (Higher Ed Administration), University of Kansas, 2000
Bachelor of Education, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 1986

Research Interests
Issues related to college students in both academic and student affairs; International students, women, and other underrepresented sub-populations’ mobility, engagement and other experiences in higher education.
Internationalization of the curriculum, campus, and engagement of students in international education

Recent Publications

Irungu, J. N. & Asingo, P. A. (Book chapter under review).  Statistical Data Collection and Analysis for African Studies

Irungu, J. N. (2010). Sustaining Hope through College. Journal of College and Character, 11(1), Art. 17. DOI: 10.2202/1940-1639.1002

Irungu J., & James, G. (2009). Connecting to the World: Learning Communities Program Response to the Global Initiative at the University of Kansas, Journal of Learning Communities Research 4(3) 27-32

Irungu, J. (2009). Book review for Burn my Heart by Beverley Naidoo, HarperCollins Publishers.  In Africa Access Reviews 2009

Twombly, S., Irungu. J., Christy-Dangermond., Flaherty, A. G., Griffin. R. (2006).Book Review-Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University by Richard Bradley, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, In the Review of Higher Education, 29(2)

Courses taught at KU
AAAS 680& 690 Intro to Modern Africa
Elementary, Intermediate & Advanced Kiswahili
KiSwahili Culture
Readings in KiSwahili
PRE 101, World Village, Learning Community
Language Pedagogy
Use of Technology in Language Teaching, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, KU, April 2003.
Proficiency Based Instruction: Listening and Reading; African Languages Workshop, KU, February 2003.
American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)Pedagogy in-Service, KU, November, 2002.
Managing Languages on the Web, African Languages Workshop, EGARC, KU, October, 2002.
National African Languages Resource Center(NALRC) Materials Development Workshop for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL), KU, 2000.
Techniques for the Communicative Classroom and Reflective teaching in Practice, LCTL workshop, KU, 1999.
Distinctions
Outstanding International Woman Student 2010- Commission on the Status of Women, Emily Taylor Women Resource Center
Outstanding Staff Member, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, 2009
Golden Key International Honor Society, Fall 2008
NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education- Best Practices in International Programming, Global Awareness Program (GAP) Award, Spring 2007.
Black Faculty and Staff Council Academic Achievement Award, Spring 2007.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators Region II, Best in Region Presentation, Fall 2006
Pioneer Director, Global Awareness Program, KU 2004-08
National African Languages Resource Center (NALRC), Kiswahili Textbooks Reviewer
Inductee, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Alpha Pi chapter, 2002

Professional Membership
ASHE: Association for the Study of Higher Education
AAUW: American Association for University Women ( Breaking Barries for Women and Girls)
African Language Teachers’ Association (ALTA)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS)
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Languages
Kikuyu-native speaker
KiSwahili- native speaker
English-Fluent
Comprehension of other African languages

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John Janzen
Tenured Professor of Anthropology, Director, Kansas African Studies Center
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1967
M.A., University of Chicago, 1964
Certificate of African Studies, University of Paris 1963
B.A., Bethel College, KS, 1961
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Field Research Experience: Zaire/Congo, Tanzania, Swaziland, South Africa, Teaching/research specialization: Politics, society, health, and healing in Central and Southern Africa; the consequences of war and African approaches to war trauma, memory, and healing.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"Do I still have a Life? Voices from the Aftermath of War in Rwanda and Burundi."
KU Monographs in Anthropology # 20. with Reinhild Janzen.
The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology. New York: McGraw-Hill (2001.)
"Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine," In Medicine across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Medicine, (2002). ed. Helain Selin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. with Edward C. Green.
"Illusions of Home: The Story of Return of a Rwandan Refugee." In Lynellyn Long & Ellen Oxfeld, eds. Coming Home? Refugees who Return. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Peoples of Africa
African Ethnology (Kongo Atlantic)
Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Advanced Medical Anthropology
LANGUAGES:
English (native), French, German, Low-German, KiKongo, 1 yr intensive Arabic
DISTINCTIONS:
Recent Grants: Title VI 2000-2003 NRC Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education, $619,000
NIH Career Training Fellowship (3 yrs) $23,000. / year, The Social Reproduction of Health in SE Asian Women's Weaving Groups, Kristin Lundberg.
Balfour Jeffreys Research Award, Kansas University Center for Research.

Abdullah Jaradat
Graduate Teaching Assistant of Arabic since spring 2003
EDUCATION:
2003-present: Ph.D. student in linguistics
M.A. Linguistics, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1992
B.A. in English Linguistics, Jordan, 1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Morphology, sociolinguistics, and linguistics construction in Arabic and English
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Arabic 220
Arabic 110
Arabic 310
LANGUAGES:
Arabic(native), English, Turkish

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Gilbert Karuga
Assistant Professor in the School of Business at KU since 2002 (tenure track).
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. Operations and Information Systems, University of Connecticut
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Designing mercantile processes for online environments
Adoption and use of information and communication technologies in developing countries
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"Using Web-based Search Data to Predict Macro-Economic Statistics, " Forthcoming (with Etteredge,.M and Gerdes J ) Communications of the ACM
"Bidding Agents in Online Auctions: What are they doing for the Principal?" Proceedings of the AMCIS conference, New York, NY (with S. Maganti) August, 2004.
"Predictive Calibration of Online Multi-Unit Ascending Auctions," Proceedings of the WITsConference, Barcelona, Spain, December 2002. (with R. Bapna, P.Goes, and A. Gupta)
Optimal Design of the Online Auction Channel:Analytical Empirical, and Computational Insights," in Decision Sciences. 33(4)(2002), pp557-575. (with Ravi Bapna, Paulo Goes, and Alok Gupta)
Adpalette: An Algorithm for Customizing Online Advertisemtns on the Fly," in Decision Support Systems. 32(2001), pp85-106(with A.M. Khraban, S.K. Nair, and D.O. Rice).
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Software Development
Advances in software technologies
Design of web-based information systems