Anne Nkirote Kubai
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Anne Nkirote Kubai | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Researcher |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | PhD in King College-London in 1995 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Religious Studies |
| Institutions | Researcher Sodertorn University |
Anne Nkirote Kubai is an associate professor of World Christianity and interreligious studies. She is a researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. She researches on conflict and peace building, religion, genocide, transitional justice, sexual and gender-based violence and psychosocial studies. She is a professor extraordinarius at the Institute of Gender Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Kubai obtained her PhD in 1995 from King's College London. Her doctoral thesis is titled "The Muslim presence and representations of Islam among the Meru of Kenya."[1] Kubai has a Bachelor of Education degree and a master's degree from the University of Nairobi. Her Masters dissertation focused on sectarianism and ethno-religious politics in the early 20th century.[2]
Career
Kubai is currently a researcher at the School for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. She has worked in other capacities among them as the Research Director for Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, and as a senior social scientist at the Division of Global Health (IHCAR), at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.[3]
Kubai is an affiliated research fellow in practical theology and missiology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and a research associate at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, Pretoria.[4] She is also a researcher at the school for Historical and Contemporary Studies in Södertörn University, Sweden.[5] She was a lecturer (May 1995 - June 2001) in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kenyatta University, Nairobi Kenya and senior lecturer, Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda.[2]
Research
Kubai researches on religion, interfaith relations, peace and conflict, gender, and sexual violence and the way spiritualties/religions (indigenous and others) shape social-political developments, post-conflict social reconstruction and the sustainability discourse in different parts of the world.[1][6] For instance, her work on Post-genocide Rwanda examines the role of religion in reconciliation and reconstruction of the society.[7] Kubai has published widely on Christian -Muslim relations and peace building and reconciliation in Africa.
