Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya - Institute for Gender Equity, Research and Development

GENDER EQUITY PROJECT COMMITTEE (AP 2009)

ABOUT DR. WANJIKU KHAMASI - DIRECTOR, IGERD & GEP TEAM LEADER

Dr. Wanjiku Khamasi - Director, IGERD

Dr. Wanjiku Khamasi (PhD, UBC) is the Director Institute for Gender Equity, Research and Development, Moi University, Project leader - MU-K-VLIR-UOS-Gender Equity Project. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences where she teaches human sexuality and qualitative research methods among other courses. She has previously served as Associate Dean of Education from 2002-2005 and Head of Department -2003 to April 2008. Dr. Wanjiku is also a member of the board of Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM) and previous of Coalition on Violence Against Women-Kenya (COVAW-K). Research interests: ethnographic research, participatory action research, family studies, teacher education & leadership, human sexuality, gender and cultural issues. In 2005 Dr. Wanjiku co-edited a book entitled: Sexuality: An African Perspective. The Politics of Self and Cultural Beliefs, published by Moi University Press with sponsorship from Ford Foundation-EA. In 2008 she contributed to a book entitled: Gender, Sexuality and Development: Education and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa edited by Máiréad Dunne, and published by SeNSE Publishers, Rotterdam. The most recent publication is entitled: Post-female circumcision: A call for collective unmasking, published in 2009 by the East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights. Wanjiku Khamasi has benefited from research and sabbatical fellowships tenured at the International Center for Research on Women (2003) and African Population and Health Research Center (2007) respectively. Both fellowships were supported by Ford Foundation.

In June2009, Wanjiku was named as one of seven 2009/2010 Erasmus Mundus scholars by The European Master of Science in International Health Programme tropEd Erasmus Mundus Consortium. The fellowship is tenable at the Karolinska Institutet Stockholm and University College London in 2010.