Michael Wairungu

Assistant Director of Student Life and Academic Instruction for SLU Kenya Center for International and Intercultural Studies
Michael Wairungu

Michael Wairungu joined the program in 2018 as an Assistant Director of Student Life and Academic Instruction. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Virginia. Prior to 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. He also taught Swahili and various courses in Linguistic Anthropology in the universities above. Besides teaching, Michael worked as a curriculum designer and specialist in Swahili at the Diplomatic Language Services in the U.S.

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