Assistant Professor of History Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi grew up in rural Kenya, and received B.A and M.A degrees from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He received his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught at Moi University, Kenya between 1992 and 2000. He has made presentations at over one hundred national and international conferences. Amutabi is co-author (with E.M. Were) of Nationalism and Democracy for People-Centered Development in Africa (Moi University Press, 2000) and Foundations of Adult Education in Africa (with F. Nafukho & R. Otunga), Pearson/UNESCO. His book, Islam and Underdevelopment of Africa, is forthcoming. His book entitled NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya from his dissertation was published by Routledge, NY, 2006. Ph: (509) 963-1854 Fax: (509) 963-1654 E-mail: amutabiM@cwu.edu For Dr. Amutabi's website, click here.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. (African History), 2005
• Dissertation: "Beyond Relief and Rehabilitation: The Role of NGOs in Kenya's Development, 1924-2000." Director, Prof. Donald Crummey
• University of Nairobi, M. A. (History), 1993
• University of Nairobi, B. A. (History and Political Science), 1989

Employment

• Central Washington University, History Department, Assistant professor, 2005
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of history, Visiting Lecturer, 2005
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Instructor, 2004
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Teaching Assistant, 2001-2003
• Moi University, Kenya, Department of Development Studies, Lecturer, Department of History, Adjunct Lecturer, 1992-2000
• University of Nairobi, Kenya, Department of History, Teaching and Graduate Assistant, 1989-1992

Courses Taught

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

• UNESCO Travel and Conference Grant. Forum for Higher Education, Paris, France, 2004
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Washington, DC. Insecurity and Globalization in Eastern Africa: The Case of Pastoralist Regions, 2003/4
• University of Illinois, Graduate College International Travel Grant, 2003/4
• University of Illinois, Department of History Research Fellowship, 2003
• Phi Kappa Phi, University of Illinois, Outstanding Scholar Award, 2003
• Dissertation grant-in-aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller, Foundation, New York, March, 2003
• CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, Research Grant. National Working Group on Kenya: To Research on Democrat Transition in Kenya. November 2002
• UNESCO's continent-wide Africa Book Project; commissioned to write one of the volumes on the African Indigenous Education Textbook Series (2002-2004), UNESCO Education Institute, Hamburg, Germany. Received award in Gaborone, Botswana, August 2002
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Grant on Research in "Conflict Areas" for Research in the Ilemi Triangle of East Africa (together with Kenneth Inyani Simala), August. 2002
• Research grant-in-aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, March 2002
• Travel Grant; Center for African Studies, Stanford University, California. April, 2002
• Travel Grant, Coleman Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), February 2002
• University of Illinois, Department of History. Conference Travel Grant, 2001
• Conference Travel Grant, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton, April, 2001
• Conference Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, March, 2001
• J.W Fulbright Junior Scholars Fellowship, 2000-2002
• Research Grant from Action-Aid Kenya to investigate "the Problems of Cattle-Rustling in Northern Kenya" (1998-1999)
• Association for World Education (AWE) Research Grant on Research on Women in Mining Areas in Kenya, 1998
• Fellowship sponsorship from the Democracy Fund of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to attend a workshop on "Globalization, Lifelong Learning and Active Citizenship" at Copenhagen, Denmark (27 April - 14 May 1997)
• Grant from the International Consortium on Experiential Learning (ICEL) to attend Seminar at Cape Town, South Africa (June 1996)
• Grant from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the University of Western Cape, South to attend an conference on Adult Education and Training in Reconstruction and development: Lessons from the South and the North held in Cape Town, South Africa in November, 1995
• Won Award Competition on Program on Governance and Peace, and Professional Development Fellowship (PDF) University of Florida, Center for African Studies, Gainesville, U.S.A. 15th December 1994 administered by the University of Florida on behalf of the Ford Foundation
• University of Nairobi Post-Graduate Scholarship, 1989-91
• Government of Kenya Scholarship for Undergraduate study at the University of Nairobi, 1986-1989

Publications

• The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya has been published by Routledge, NY, 2006.
• Foundations of Adult Education in Africa (with Frederick Nafukho and and Ruth Otunga). Cape Town and Hamburg: Pearson Education Publishers (South Africa) and UNESCO, 2005.
• "Transient, Mobile 'Nations' and the Dilemma of Nationhood in the Horn of Africa: Interrogating Nomadic Pastoralists, Insecurity and the Uncertainty of Belonging" (Chapter 8). In East Africa: In Search of National and Regional Renewal, edited by Felicia Arudo Yieke. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications, 2005. 45-56.
• "Captured and Steeped in Colonial Dynamics and Legacy: The Case of Isiolo Town in Kenya" in Steven Salm and Toyin Falona (Eds). African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2005. 213-242.
• "Small Arms, Cattle Raiding and Borderlands: The Ilemi Triangle"(Chapter Seven) in Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham Itty (eds) Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 (with Kenneth Inayni Simala)
• "Globalization and the Mainstreaming of Kiswahili Research in the Twenty-First Century" in Kenneth I. Simala (ed). Utafiti wa Kiswahili (Kiswahili Research). Eldoret, Kenya: Moi University Press, 2004.
• "Political Interference in the running of education in post-independence Kenya:a critical reflection." International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2003. Pages 127-144.
• "Experimenting in Distance Education: African Virtual University (AVU) and the Paradox of the World Bank in Kenya". International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2003. Pages 57-73 (with Moses Oketch).
• "Cultural History of the Abaluyia: The Role of Traditional Music" in William R. Ochieng' (ed). 2002. Historical Studies and Social Change in Western Kenya. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers.
• "Crisis and Student Protest in Universities in Kenya: Examining the Role of Students in National Leadership and Democratization Process". African Studies Review, Volume 45, Number 2 (September 2002), pp.157-78.
• "Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John E Flint" edited by Chris You'e and Tim Stapleton. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Volume 36, Number 1, 2002. Pages 182-184 (Book review)
• "The role of Traditional Music in the writing of Cultural History: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya" In Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings (eds.). Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across the Disciplines. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Pp.191-207.
• "Gender and Mining in Kenya: The Case of Mukibira Mines in Vihiga District, Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, 2001, 1, 2, 16-34, also at: http://www.jendajournal.com/vol1.2/amutabi_lutta-mukhebi.html (with Mary Lutta- Mukhebi).
• "Resource Conflict in the Horn of Africa" by John Markakis. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Volume 35, Number 2.pp 397-400 (Book Review)
• "The Politics of GNP and GDP and their Implications for Africa" in P.G. Okoth. (Ed). Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Problems and Prospects. Pp.56-71 Nairobi, Kenya: University of Nairobi Press, 2000.
• "Islam and Urban Violence in Kenya: Revisiting the Mombasa and Malindi Riots" Occasional Paper Association for World Education, Nairobi, Kenya, No.12, 2000.
• Nationalism and Democracy for People-Centered Development in Africa. Eldoret, Kenya: Moi University Press, 2000 (with Edmond Were)
• "The Paradox of Islam and Cattle-rustling in Northern Kenya in the 1990s." Journal of World Education, 1999, 3, 2:17-25.
• "Islamization of Nandi and Uasin Gishu Districts: Socio-political implications". Journal of World Education, 1998, 2,2:24-33.
• "Globalization and Higher Education in Africa: Problems and Prospects", in Van DerDyke (Ed) Globalization and Education in Africa, Conference Proceedings. Johannesburg: Horizon Publishers, 1997. 1-7.
• "Plight of Adult Education in Kenya", in Shirley Walters (Ed) Globalization, Adult Education and Training: Impacts and Issues, London/New York: Zed Books, 1997. Pp. 196-200.
• "Introduction", in Shirley Walters (Ed) Globalization, Adult Education and Training: Impacts and Issues, London/New York: Zed Books, 1997, Pp. 1-12.
• "Sheikh Khalid Balala, IPK and Islamic Extremism in Kenya." Association for World Education, Nairobi, Kenya, Occasional Paper, No.4, 1996.
• "Federalism as a Solution to Tribalism" in B.A. Ogot (ed) Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in Africa, Kisumu: Maseno University Press, 1996. Pp.176-86
• "Women and Mining in Kenya: The Case of Mukibira Mines in Vihiga District: Twentieth Century Developments and Colonial Traditions." In Jaclyn C. Viskovatoff and Laurie Mercier. (Eds). Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1700-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2005 (with Mary Lutta-Mukhebi) {forthcoming).
• "Power and Influence of African Court Clerks and Translators in Colonial Kenya: The Case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946-1956" in Emily Osborn; Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts (eds). Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa: Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 (forthcoming).
• "Ethnicity and Political Transition in Kenya" in S. W Nasong'o and Godwin R. Murunga. (Eds). Democratic Transition in Kenya: Limitations and Prospects. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA book series, 2005.
• "Intellectuals and the Democratization Process in Kenya" in S. W Nasong'o and Godwin R. Murunga. (Eds). Democratic Transition in Kenya: Limitations and Prospects. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA book series, 2005 (forthcoming).

Presentations

• Over one hundred conference research paper presentations at national and international conferences

Journal Reviewing

• Reviews for International Journal of Educational Development (IJED) since 1997.