Sitawa Kimuna
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Kansas State University 2000
Areas of Interest: Aging, Social Demography/Population Dynamics, Health in sub-Saharan Africa, race and ethnic relations: American and global and the social impact of mass media.
Office: Brewster A-408
Tel: 252.328.5768
E-mail: kimunas@ecu.edu

Curriculum Vita

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Research

Publications

 

Journal Articles

2005 “HIV/AIDS orphans’ education in Uganda: The changing role of older people.” Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Vol3 (4): 63-81.

 

2005 “Living arrangements and conditions of older people in Zimbabwe.” African Population Studies, Vol. 20 (2): 143-163.

 

2005 “Socio-economic Support of Older People in Zimbabwe.” BOLD – Quarterly Journal of the International Institute on Ageing, United Nations – Malta, Vol. 15(4): 13-27.

 

2005 “Wealth and Extramarital Sex Among Men in Zambia” (with Yanyi K. Djamba). International Family Planning Perspectives. 31 (2): 83-89.

 

2005 “College Students’ Perceptions About Older People and Aging” (with David Knox and Marty Zusman). Educational Gerontology. 31 (7): 563-572.

 

2005 “College Students’ Views of the Elderly: Some Gender Differences” (with David Knox and Marty Zusman). College Student Journal. 39: 14-16.

 

2004 “Hazardous Waste Transfer to Africa: Implications for the Poor and Marginalized.” Sustainable Communities Review Journal. 7 (1): 42-54.

 

2004 “Mass Media, Race and Crime: Impact on Racial and Ethnic Relations.” Business Research Yearbook. XI. 98-102.

 

2003 “Review of the Road Oft Traveled: Development Policies and Majority State Ownership of Industry in Africa” by John James Quinn. Contemporary Sociology, 32 (4):495-497.

 

2001 “Gender Relations: Husband-Wife Fertility and Family Planning Decisions in Kenya” (with Donald Adamchak). Journal of Biosocial Science, 33: 13-23.

 

1999  “Population Aging and Elderly Support: A Kenya Profile” (with Donald Adamchak). BOLD Journal of the International Institute on Ageing, United Nations - Malta, Vol.10 (1): 6-16.

 

1999 “Fertility and Family Planning Decisions: Policy Implications.” PRB Fellows Program Research Paper Series, Washington DC,  USA.

 

Book Chapters

2005 “Elderly women, Economic Growth and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Zimbabwe Case Study” (pp. 159-187). In Sylvain Boko, Mina Baliamoune-Lutz and Sitawa R. Kimuna (eds.), Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century. Africa World Press.

 

Edited Books

2005 “Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century” (with Sylvain Boko and Mina Baliamoune-Lutz). Trenton: New Jersey. Africa World Press.

 

Current Projects  
I am currently collaborating with several scholars around the world - working on earnings attainment of female African immigrants in the US, extramarital relations and spousal abuse in Africa and the perceptions of older people on risky behavior of members of their households. Also, I am using telephone survey data to examine care giving in households headed by older people.