Mwalimu, Michelle
Michelle Mwalimu earned her B.A. in international relations with a focus on comparative cultures and societies from Stanford University. Michelle spent two summers of her undergraduate career as an HIV and AIDS educator in primary and secondary Tanzanian schools of the Arusha region. During this period, she conducted fieldwork for her honors thesis entitled: ‘Peer’ Educators? Successes and Challenges to HIV and AIDS Education in Arusha, Tanzania.”
With the support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Michelle is conducting fieldwork for her dissertation in the Lusaka and Luapula Provinces of Zambia. Her study assesses perceptions of quality and opportunity in community-based schools among Zambia’s orphans and vulnerable children.
Michelle is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society and is featured in the fall 2008 issue of the College of Education’s alumni publication, “The New Educator”.
Honors/Awards:
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award: 2009
College of Education Summer Research Fellowship: 2008
Michigan State University Enrichment Fellowship (UEF): 2006-2010
Stanford University Major and Small Grants in Research: 2004-2006
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society
Presentations/Publications:
“Utilizing Social Exclusion to Study Zambia’s Community-based Schools”. Paper presented at the Second Annual Africanist Graduate Student Conference. Michigan State University, September 26-27, 2008.
Mwalimu, M. (2006) “Peer” Educators? Successes and Challenges to HIV and AIDS Education in Arusha, Tanzania. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Mwalimu, M. (2004) “An Interview with Mama Felister”. Article submitted to SAUTI, Stanford University’s Journal of African Studies.
