Political Science Faculty and Staff
Dr. Kenly Greer Fenio
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida 2009
Ph.D., University of Florida 2009
Dr. Kenly Greer Fenio is a Visiting Assistant Professor at VT and teaches courses on African Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Global Conflict. Coming to Blacksburg from the University of Florida under the direction of Goran Hyden, her dissertation, Between Bedrooms and Ballots: The Politics of HIV's 'Economy of Infection' in Mozambique, focused on the positive effects of HIV/AIDS on mobilization and democracy within the public arena. Prior to beginning her PhD work in 2002, she worked professionally in South Florida theatres and spent several years traveling around the world. Since 2000, she has worked, lived and conducted research in several African countries including Swaziland, South Africa, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Some of the organizations with which she has worked in Africa are Rotary International, the World Health Organization, the South African Red Cross, the International Orthodox Christian Charities, and several local NGOs such as Muleide, Kindlimuka and Matram, all of which focus on women and/or health and access to resources. Dr. Fenio's research interests in Africa include the collective mobilization of communities; women in the public sphere; governance in the public sector; security studies (both human and national); infectious disease and democratic practices; and post-conflict state-society relations. Along with assisting graduate students in the U.S. and Europe in setting up research projects on the continent, she has served as consultant for a number of Africa-related research projects, including the collection of baseline community data for PEPFAR, and Duke University's Democratic Linkages project (in 80 countries). In Spring 2010 she will be in Mali to present research on decentralized health systems in Mozambique, and in Summer 2010 she will be in South Africa and Mozambique to conduct research on the use of theatre by HIV associations to promote human rights and gender equality.
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