Curriculum vitae

Mwanzia David Kyule

Department of History and Archaeology University of Nairobi, P O Box 30197 GPO 00100 Nairobi, Tel: +254-20-318262, Ext. 28165; Cell: 254-722-236208 E-mail: [email protected]

Personal profile

 Current academic position: Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi.  Teaching areas: History, Archaeology, Cultural tourism, Heritage management, Conflict and peace.  Skills: Curriculum development, e-learning and Distant education, Cultural Resources Management and Impact Assessment, Archaeologist /Paleoanthropologist  Topical interests: ICT, Tourism, Environment, Conservation, Human and behavioural evolution, African art and crafts.

Teaching areas and levels:  Masters and Bachelors: History and Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi

 Masters (Distance Education) LDS 660: Information and Communication Technology for Distance Learning, College of Education and External studies, Faculty of External studies, Department of Distance Studies, Kikuyu Campus, University of Nairobi

 Masters (Peace Education) LPE 606: Approaches to peace Building in Africa, College of Education and External studies, Faculty of External studies, Department of Distance Studies, Kikuyu Campus, University of Nairobi

 Bachelors: Tourism Program, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi

 Bachelors: Social Studies Program, South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU) Wote and Machakos Campuses (Part time and school based)

 Diploma: Cultural Tourism, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi

 Over 10 Master’s Thesis supervision  Over 150 undergraduate research project papers supervision,  Over 100 undergraduate field attachment and supervision reports,  2 undergraduate Diploma research project reports

Work experience

• Over 15 administrative positions in public institutions • 4 +Television documentaries • Over 15 academic and administrative workshops/symposia 1 M D. Kyule Resume June 2016

• Editor: Nairobi Journal of Historical Studies (since March 2014) • Senior Editor (with George M. Gona), MIZIZI: A collection of Essays on Kenya’s History, University of Nairobi Press (2013).  Academic Peer Reviewer: o Online Journal of African Affairs (www.onlineresearchjournals.org/OJAA ) o Journal of Heritage Conservation and Human Rights (Editor: Anne-marie Delvenne Deisser) o Baraton Interdisciplinary Research Journal (BIRJ) URL: www.ueab.ac.ke/BIRJ Editor-in-Chief: Z. Ngalo Otieno-Ayayo.

 Web Administrator: Archaeology in Eastern Africa

 Consultant: UNES consulting . Heritage Impact Assessment . Cultural Resources Management . Tourism Product Development Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (former Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) . Analysis of KCE (History and Government) and KCPE (Social Studies) KNEC papers, Facilitator: Francis Njagi. . Content scripting and editing of digital content for History and Government for Kenya secondary schools, Facilitator: Esther Gachichio. . Evaluation and vetting of curriculum support materials (History and Government) Facilitator: Jane Nyagah . Curriculum content development for Kenya secondary schools (History and Government) Facilitator: Jane Nyagah . Curriculum content development for Diploma Teacher Training Education (DTE) Teacher Trainers Handbook (History and Government panel), Facilitator: Ann Mwai. . Editing of Orientation Radio Teaching Programs Facilitator: Dorothy Mwanzilo. . Editing of Radio lessons for secondary schools and teacher training colleges, Facilitator: Sr. Susan Mutune. University Teaching:

23 years teaching experience at university level: University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign (USA), Egerton University (Kenya), Moi University (Kenya), and South Eastern Kenya University (Kenya).

Present since 1997: University of Nairobi, Kenya, as Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts (Appointment 1993 as Tutorial fellow). Comprehensive teaching load, administrative and related duties available upon request).

Present since 2005 Lecture and Overseer on Cultural Orientation and countryside visitations: Young Adult Volunteer Kenya Program (- an exchange program of young adult Americans in Kenya for a period of one year, Coordinated by Dr. Rev. Phyllis M.B. Ochilo, Bishop at St. Andrews Church, Nairobi. Areas of coverage: Human origins, Kenya’s early history and Kenya contemporary affairs; visitation to select archaeological sites.

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1994-1997 Graduate Teaching Assistant teaching Swahili as a foreign language and Anthropology 102 - Human origins and Culture; Center for African Studies and Department of Anthropology respectively, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1994 Part-time Induction and orientation Instructor to newly arrived foreign tourists; on Human origins and the Paleoanthropology of East Africa and Kenya’s contemporary culture, Travcoa International Tours, the Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi.

1992-1993 Assistant Lecturer; teaching Archaeology and African Prehistory, Department of History and Archaeology, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

Instructor, University of Illinois - Egerton University exchange program teaching Archaeology and Paleoanthropology of Kenya

1991-1992 Teaching Assistant, teaching Archaeology and African Prehistory, Department of History and Archaeology, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

1990 Archivist III, Kenya National Archives, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Government of Kenya Nairobi.

1988- 1991 Examiner, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) History Paper II - African History, Kenya National Examinations Council, Nairobi as (5 weeks/year).

Research, Fieldwork and Research assistantships (1987 to present) Details available upon request

Publications

Paper chapters in edited book volumes

In press M.D. Kyule, Status assessment of legislation on cultural heritage resources in Kenya, in Delvenne Deisser, Anne-Marie and Mugwima Njuguna (Editors) The Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Kenya: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Theory and Practices Chapter 2 Pgs 9-21.

In press M.D. Kyule, The Bao: a board game in Africa’s antiquity, in Delvenne Deisser, Anne-Marie and Mugwima Njuguna (Editors) The Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Kenya: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Theory and Practices. Chapter 7 pgs 76-89.

2013 M. D. Kyule and George M. Gona, Introduction, in M.D. Kyule and G. M. Gona (Eds), MIZIZI: A collection of Essays on Kenya’s History, Pgs 1 – 5. University of Nairobi Press.

2013 M. D. Kyule and J.C. Onyango Abuje, History of Prehistory in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, in M.D. Kyule and G. M. Gona (Eds), MIZIZI: A collection of Essays on Kenya’s History, Chapter 3 Pgs 17 – 33. University of Nairobi Press.

2013 M. D. Kyule Archaeology of Pli-Pleistocene Hominids in Eastern Africa, in M.D. Kyule and G. M. Gona (Eds), MIZIZI: A collection of Essays on Kenya’s History, Chapter 4 Pgs 35 – 47. University of Nairobi Press.

Research papers in peer reviewed academic Journals

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• 2007: S. H. Ambrose, M. D. Kyule, and L. Hlusko, History of Paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya, Kirtlandia 56: 1-37. (Journal of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio, USA) http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/hlusko/kirt-56-00-1.pdf; http://www.cmnh.org/site/Files/Publications/KirtlandiaIss56.pdf

• 2007: S.H. Ambrose, C.J Bell, R. L. Bernor, J-R. Boisserie, C. M. Darwent, D. Degusta, A. Deino, N. Garcia, Y. Haile-Selassie, J.J. Head, F. C. Howell, M. D. Kyule, F. K. Manthi, E. M. Mathu, C. M. Nyamai, H. Saegusa, T. A. Stidham, M. A. J. Williams, and L.Hlusko, The Paleoecology and Paleogeographic context of Lemudong’o Locality 1, a late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya, Kirtlandia 56: 38-52. (Journal of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio, USA). http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/hlusko/kirt-56-00-38.pdf; http://www.cmnh.org/site/Files/Publications/KirtlandiaIss56.pdf

• 2005 : M. D. Kyule, Savanna ecosystems and origins of modern human behavior Hekima III (1) 27-42: (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi).

• 2003 : S. H. Ambrose, L. J. Hlusko, M.D. Kyule, A. Deino, and M. J. Williams, Lemudong’o: a new 6 Ma paleontological site near Narok, Kenya Rift Valley, Journal of Human Evolution 44:737-742.

• 2002 : S. H. Ambrose, L. J. Hlusko, M.D. Kyule, A. Deino, and M. J. Williams, Lemudong’o: a late Miocene fossil site in southern Kenya, American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Supplement 34:37.

• 1997 : M.D. Kyule, S.H. Ambrose, M.P. Noll and J.L. Atkinson, Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southwest Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 32:A9-10.

• 1997: M. D. Kyule, The Sirikwa Economy: Further work at Site II on Hyrax Hill, . Azania 32:21-30. (Publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa).

Teaching Modules for the Center for Open and Distance Learning (CODL), University of Nairobi.

2011. Tourism in the Internet Age;

2009. Aspects of African Arts and Crafts;

2008. Archaeology Field Methods;

2008. Hospitality Management;

Abstracts in peer reviewed academic journal

2002: S. H. Ambrose, A. Deino, M. D. Kyule, I. Steele and M.A.J. Williams, The emergency of modern human behavior during the late Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley. Paleoanthropology Society, Abstracts Pg. A3.

2000: S. H. Ambrose, M. D. Kyule, M. Muia, A. Deino, and M. A. J. Williams, Dating the MSA/ LSA transition in Southwest Kenya. Society for American Anthropology, - Abstracts Pg.33.

Newsletters and professional society publications

1993: M. D. Kyule, Hyrax Hill: 50 years of archaeological research. Kenya Past and Present 25:47- 53. (Publication of the Kenya Museum Society). 4 M D. Kyule Resume June 2016

1992: M. D. Kyule, Dogs and the Sirikwa at Hyrax Hill. East Africa Natural History Society Bulletin 22:34-37. (Publication of the East African Natural History Society).

1991: M. D. Kyule, Excavations at the site of Hyrax Hill, 1990. Kenya Past and Present 23:50-53. (Publication of the Kenya Museum Society).

1991: M. D. Kyule, Plant remains from a Sirikwa culture site at Hyrax Hill, Nakuru. Nyame Akuma 36:8-10. (Publication of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists).

Other academic publications

2004: S. H. Ambrose and M. D. Kyule, The evolution of modern human behavior in East Africa, International Council of African Museums. http://www.wac.uct.ac.za/bulletin/wab10/east_africa.html

1999: M. D. Kyule, Ecological and behavioural implications of early Later Stone Age Fauna from Ntuka River 3, southwest Kenya. http://www.wac.uct.ac.za/wac4/symposia/papers.asp

1994: M. D. Kyule, The Game of Bao in East Africa’s Prehistory. Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/UIUC_0994.html

Conference papers

2011 Teachers' experiences in teaching evolution. Workshop on “Building Bridges between Evolution and Religion” The Prehistory Clubs of Kenya/National Museums of Kenya 31st July – 2nd August 2011

2009 Overview on Presentation and discussion of report on the General History of Africa Textbook project (24 Nov). Fourth ordinary session of the conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF- IV), , Kenya (23-26 November)

2005 S. H. Ambrose, M. D. Kyule and M. Muia, MSA, MSA/LSA and LSA sites in the south of Narok District of Kenya. First meeting of the East African Association of Paleoanthropology “The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and Modern Human Origins conference”, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (17-21, July) and National Museums of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (22-25, July).

2004 M. D. Kyule, Cultural heritage management: a review case for the Antiquities and Monuments Act (CAP 215) Laws of Kenya (1983), Historical Association of Kenya Conference, Baringo, Kenya (10 - 13, June).

2003 M. D. Kyule, Aspects of modern human behavior during the late Pleistocene: insights from southwest Kenya, Conference on Current Archaeology and Paleoanthropological research in Kenya, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (8 -9, August)

2002 S. H. Ambrose, L. J. Hlusko, M. D. Kyule, A. Deino, and M. A. J. Williams. Lemudong’o: A late Miocene fossil site in southern Kenya, 71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Buffalo, New York, USA (13, April).

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2002 S. H. Ambrose, A. Deino, M. D. Kyule, I. Steele and M.A.J. Williams, The emergency of modern human behavior during the late Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley, Paleoanthropology Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA ( 20, March).

2000 S. H. Ambrose, M. D. Kyule, M. Muia, A. Deino, and M. A. J. Williams, Dating the MSA/ LSA transition in Southwest Kenya, 65th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, USA (5, April).

1999 M. D. Kyule, Ecological and behavioural implications of early Later Stone Age Fauna from Ntuka River 3, southwest Kenya, 4th World Archaeological Congress (WAC4), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (3, Jan).

1997 M. D. Kyule, S. H. Ambrose, M. P. Noll and J. L. Atkinson, Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southwest Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society, 6th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (1, April) http://www.paleoanthro.org/pdfs/1997abst.pdf

1994 M. D. Kyule, Implications of a modification analysis of a Sirikwa faunal assemblage at Hyrax Hil. 12th Biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA), Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Conference attendance without paper presentation

2014 “Understanding oneself and the others: New Domestic and international Tourism Practices and the promotion of Heritage and Tourism in East Africa.” Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi (16th - 17th of July)

2014 African Large Carnivores: Impacts on Ecosystems and Humans Interactions (International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (24TH - 27TH JUNE)

2013: 4th East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP) conference, at Leisure Lodge Resort, Mombasa (28th July-2th August)

2010 Symposium on applications of digital technologies in heritage conservation, management and policy (JSTOR, University of Cape Town and National Museums of Kenya), Sarova Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya (29 January)

2004 Rock art in Africa in the 21st century - the future of Africa’s past, Trust for African Rock Art, Holiday Inn, Nairobi, Kenya (1-3, September).

1995 38th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Orlando, Florida, USA.

1995 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1994 Society for American Rock Art, annual meeting, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA.

1994 3rd annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Anaheim, California, USA.

1994 59th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, California, USA.

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Unpublished reports

2000 S. H. Ambrose and M. D. Kyule, Chronology of the Middle and Later Stone Age, Kenya Rift Valley. Report to the Office of the President, Republic of Kenya, and the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya for the 1999 Archaeology Field Season, Nairobi, Kenya.

1996 M. D. Kyule, S. H. Ambrose and M. P. Noll, Archaeological surveys in the Ntuka Area, Narok, Kenya: a preliminary report. Report (OP/13/001/25C 123/2) to the Office of the President, Republic of Kenya, and the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

1994 M. D. Kyule, Archaeological research in Africa. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA.

1993 M. D. Kyule, S. Munyiri and B. N. Mbae, Report on rescue excavations at Hyrax Hill, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

1992 M. D. Kyule, “Economy and subsistence of Iron Age Sirikwa culture at Hyrax Hill, Nakuru: A Zooarchaeological approach”. Master of Arts thesis, Board of Post Graduate Studies, University of Nairobi.

1992 M. D. Kyule, The Sirikwa Culture: New evidence from Hyrax Hill. Staff Seminar Paper, Department of History, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

1991 M. D. Kyule and John Kamau, Reporting Nyamathi: A Late Stone Age site in the Basin, Kenya. Archaeology Archives, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

1990 M. D. Kyule, Reconstruction of subsistence economic patterns of the Iron Age Sirikwa, Hyrax Hill, Kenya. Staff Seminar Paper No. 8 (1989/1990). Department of History, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

1989 M. D. Kyule, “A Contribution to the Study of Funerary Aspects in Kenya during the Holocene”. Bachelor of Arts Dissertation, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi

Training 2008 Training for inspection and acceptance committee members of procurement committees at the Central Catering Unit (CCU), - Public Procurement Act (2005), Public Procurement Regulations (2006), terms of reference and role of inspection and acceptance committees, process of receiving stores, materials, equipment and certification of works, - University of Nairobi, Nairobi (14 November).

2007 Induction seminar in Pedagogy, College of Education, University of Nairobi, at the Utalii Hotel, Nairobi (24 - 26 January)

1996 Training in computing, networking and information technologies for teaching and instruction, Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1995 Training in teaching and instructional methods (development, measurement and evaluation), Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

1986 Pre-university Para-military training, National Youth Service, , Kenya. 7 M D. Kyule Resume June 2016

Education

(In progress) Doctor of philosophy (PhD): Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi, AND Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Doctoral advisors: Prof. Stanley H. Ambrose and Prof. Ephrahim Wahome.

2008. Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1999. Single Subject Diploma: Project planning and management, Institute of Commercial Management, Bournemouth, England and Nairobi, Kenya.

1993. Master of Arts: Archaeology, Board of Post Graduate Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

1989. Bachelor of Arts (Honors): Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi.

1988 Undergraduate Certificate in Paleoanthropology: Harvard University/National Museums of Kenya: Field School, Kenya. Director of Program: Dr. Harry V. Merrick.

Affiliations:  National Museums of Kenya (NMK)  Sustainable African Dryland Ecosystems  Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) and Societies Program. Colorado State  Kenya Institute of Curriculum University and LARMAT - CAVS, Development University of Nairobi  British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)  Center for Heritage Conservation and  Institut Francais de Recherche en Human Rights, University of Nairobi. Afrique /French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nairobi)

Membership: Pre History Clubs of Kenya East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP) Kenya Museum Society Wildlife Clubs of Kenya REFEREES

Prof. Ephraim Wahome, Leslea J. Hlusko Dr. Mary Mwiandi Jane Nyagah Ass. Dean, Faculty of Arts Department of Integrative Chair, Dept of History Kenya Institute of Curriculum University of Nairobi. Biology University of Nairobi Development P O Box 30197 University of California P O Box 30197 P O Box 30231 GPO 00100 Nairobi, KENYA 3060 Valley Life Sci Building Nairobi, KENYA Nairobi, Kenya [email protected] Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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