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Fungisai Musoni-Chikede
Assistant Professor of History & Director of African Diaspora Program
Bio, Research Interests, and Area of Focus
Dr. Fungisai Musoni-Chikede is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Africana Diaspora Program. She is a transnational and interdisciplinary scholar with a research focus that sits at the intersection of African, Transnational, Comparative Education, and International Relations studies. Her specializations are Global North Philanthropy and Global South higher education, the Cold War, Decolonization and Independence in Africa, International Development, and US-Africa relations since WW2. At Marist, she teaches African history courses, including African Civilizations Up to 1870, Africa Since 1800/Modern Africa, Introduction to the African Diaspora, and US-Africa relations since WW2. In addition to presenting at national conferences like the African Studies Association and Comparative and International Education Society, she has published in Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces: Negotiating Global, Transnational, and Neoliberal Dynamics and Spectrum Journal of Black Men. Currently, she is working on several projects, including a book manuscript that uses the Rockefeller Foundation’s Cold War educational activities in what is now Zimbabwe as a case study to demonstrate the long-term ramifications of U.S foundations’ activities on African universities and the societies they serve.
Education
PhD, African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
MA, Political Science, Georgia State University
MAT, History, Mercer University, Atlanta
BA, Economic History & Shona, Univeristy of Zimbabwe
Awards and Honors
Archival Research Travel Grant, Kalamazoo College, 2022
Inclusive Pedagogy Mini-Grant, Kalamazoo College, 2021
Global Arts & Humanities Society Fellowship, 2021
OSU Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship, 2019
Eisenhower Foundation Research Travel Grant, 2019
Comparative and International Education Society Conference Merit Travel Grant, 2019
Critical Difference for Women Professional Development Grant, 2018
Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Research Grant, 2018
OSU Office of Inclusion and Diversity Research Grant, 2017
Gwen Kagey Research Scholarship, 2017-2019
OSU International Student Enrichment Grant, 2016 & 2020