KU AFRICANIST FACULTY

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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Clarence Henry
Non-Tenured Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Department of Music and Dance at KU.
EDUCATION:
2000 Ph.D., Ethnomusicology UCLA. Areas of specialization: Music of African Americans, and African Diaspora.
1998 C.Phil., Ethnomusicology, UCLA.
1996 M.Ed., Music Education, Columbia University.
1995 M.A., Music, Columbia University.
1982 B.A., Music, University of Houston.
1981 B.A., Sociology, University of Houston.
1981 Certificate of Ethnic Studies, University of Houston.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Music of African Americans in the United States, Music of Africa & African Diaspora, Ethnomusicology, Music and Religion in Brazil
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Forthcoming: Exploring the Roots of Axé in Brazilian Popular Music, [Prospective Publisher] Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
"Music and Female Imagery in the Candomblé Religion of Salvador, Bahia Brazil," Journal of Latin American Lore 22(1): 107-34.
"Celebrating the Orixás: The Influence of African Religion and Music in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil," in Conference Proceedings (Global Effects Past and Present: Musical Cultures of Latin America), University of California, Los Angeles (Scheduled publication date: Fall 2002).
African American Women in Music, Gospel Music, Mahalia Jackson, Ethel Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, in Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, edited by Kristine H. Burns. Phoenix: Oryx Press (Scheduled publication date: July 2002).
"The African Legacy: The Use of Music and Musical Instruments In the Candomblé Religion of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil," in Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music, edited by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Los Angeles: University of California, Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
History of Jazz
Great Innovators of Jazz
Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Music in World Cultures
Music of Africa & the Middle East
LANGUAGES:
English and Portuguese (reading knowledge) German, French, Swahili, and Spanish
DISTINCTIONS:
Elected to the Executive Board of the Lied Performing Arts Center, Lawrence, KS, 2004
Elected to Who's Who in Fine Arts Higher Education, 2003
Elected to Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, University of Kansas, 2003
Faculty Award for Excellence in International Education, University of Kansas, 2003
New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas, 2002

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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
Associate Director, Kansas African Studies Center
Education
Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (Higher Ed. Administration)
University of Kansas, Anticipated 2008
Graduate Certificate in Women Studies, University of Kansas, 2006
Master of Science in Education (Higher Ed Administration), University of Kansas, 2000
Bachelor of Education, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 1986
Research Interests
International students’ mobility and experiences in higher education, women issues in higher education, African immigrants in the United States
Courses taught at KU
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.
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
NASPA- Best Practices in International Programming, Global Award Program (GAP) Award, Spring 2007.
Black Faculty and Staff Council Academic Achievement Award, Spring 2007.
NAFSA: Region II, Best in Region Presentation, Fall 2006
Member, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Alpha Pi chapter, 2002
National Examiner Certificate from the Kenya National Examinations Council, 1988
Teaching Certification, Teachers Service Commission, Nairobi, 1986
Professional Membership
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
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