Wairimũ Njambi
Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology in the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. She earned a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching interests include feminist science studies, feminist theory, queer studies, critical race, gender, and sexuality studies, and more. She is the recipient of seven teaching awards at FAU and additional awards for her service to students. She comes from a rural community in Kenya’s central highlands, and much of her scholarship focuses on social and cultural practices of Gĩkũyũ women of that region. Her work on park landscapes has also focused on Kenya. She co-authored a book chapter with William O’Brien about tourist mobilities in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, and they are currently collaborating on a historical study of Royal Aberdare National Park. That park was a major site of warfare during the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising in the 1950s, and their research highlights the significance of its mountainous forest landscape in the struggle. Her work has appeared in journals including Feminist Theory, NWSA Journal (of the National Women’s Studies Association), Meridians, Gender and Society, Critical Sociology, the Journal of American Culture, Australian Feminist Studies, among others. Examples from this work have been reprinted in volumes including Gender Epistemologies in Africa and African Gender Studies: A Reader.