Gendered Exclusion and Contestation

Dr. Ireen Mudeka () is currently a lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. She earned a BA Honors Degree in Economic History and a Masters Degree in African Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. After 2000, she obtained a Compton and MacArthur Foundation scholarship to pursue a PhD in African History at the University of Minnesota, where she earned a PhD in 2011 for a thesis on Malawian women’s migration. She has also conducted research into the role of women in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and the failure of Zimbabweans to mentally demobilize after the liberation war.