Hanson Associate Dean and Professor of History Matt Carotenuto, Assistant Director of Academics and Student Life Michael Wairungu, and Kenya Semester Program Senior Driver and Head Mechanic Njau Kibochi published their collaborative research titled, “African Homestays and Community Engagement: A Case Study on Reciprocity and Neocolonialism."
Carotenuto’s teaching and research interests are rooted in African history and the experience of people of African descent around the world. He teaches survey courses on African history and African studies, upper-division classes on constructions of identity and conflict, and seminars on colonial and urban history.
Wairungu holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Virginia. Before joining the KSP, he was an Assistant Professor of Swahili at Northwestern University, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of the South, and a Fulbright FLTA at Stanford University. Wairungu has worked as a curriculum designer and specialist in Swahili at the Diplomatic Language Services in the United States.
