Curriculum vitae Mwanzia David Kyule Department of History and Archaeology University of Nairobi, P O Box 30197 GPO 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 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. 2 M D. Kyule Resume June 2016 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 3 M D. Kyule Resume June 2016 • 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, Nakuru. 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