Jeanine Ntihirageza Ph.D. Ph.D.
College of Arts and Sciences, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Professor; Coordinator
Office:
LWH 3062
Phone:
(773) 442-5873
Email:
j-ntihirageza@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
M: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM T: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM W: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM TH: By appointment only F: By appointment only
Expertise
Phonology, Morphology, African Languages (Bantu Languages), Contact Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, ESL / EFL African Summer Institute
TESL 426-Advanced Linguistic Analysis
Expertise
Phonology, Morphology, African Languages (Bantu Languages), Contact Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, ESL / EFL African Summer Institute
Research Interests
Linguistics, Language Teaching, Refugee and Genocide Studies, and Human Rights in Africa.
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Chicago
Selected Publications
Ubuntu in the context of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and atrocity prevention: Retooling the top for relevant and effective leadership In Marietjie Oelofsen, Upenyu Majee, Bongani Mgijima, Jamie Monson (Eds). UBUNTU – Interdisciplinary Conversations Across Continents. African Sun Media (pp. 183-204).
Ntihirageza, J., Luedke, T. J., Barcelo, H., Glenn, J., Ramirez, E. S., Siegal, L. D., ... & Giachello, A. L. Community-Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 17(1), 99-108.
Tumilty, E., Glenn, J., Barcelo, H., & Ntihirageza, J. (2023). Beyond the Manuscript: Community-Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 17(1), 109-116.
(With Aissetu Ibrahima, A. Education and epistemicide in Africa: Towards an Ubuntu-based comprehensive model of education. In Handbook of Research on protecting and managing global indigenous knowledge systems (pp. 275-293). IGI Global.
Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence, ed. A. Frankowski, J. Ntihirageza and C. Eze (Rowman & Littlefield International)
Repenser pour penser (Remembering for Healing Sake): A survivor’s account of the 1972 Burundi Genocide. In Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti- Black Political Violence, ed. A. Frankowski, J. Ntihirageza and C. Eze (Rowman & Littlefield International)
(Invited submission), "For healing and learning’s sake: modelling actionable empathy in higher
education". Living City Magazine.
Co-authored ISBE’s Equitable Access to Educational Excellence: Framing Services for English Learners in Illinois. https://www.isbe.net/Documents/el-framing-services-toolkit.pdf
Changing Roles of English in Africa: Case of Burundi. In Changing Roles of English in Africa ed. by Martha Michieka and Yousif Elhindi. Common Grounds Publishing LLC .
Teach Me about Africa: Facilitating and Training Educators toward a Socially Just Curriculum. In Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st Century Classroom ed. by Brandon D. Lundy and Solomon Negash. Indiana University Press. (Coauthored with Durene Wheeler).
Background
Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL) holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in Bantu languages. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Burundi where she subsequently taught TEFL and ESL classes as a Lecturer. She came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship to do her graduate studies. Her primary research area is phonology and morphology. Her other research interests include contact linguistics and Pragmatics. In addition, she is a currently working on an online bilingual Kirundi-English dictionary with Teddy Bofman and Paul Prez (http://homepages.neiu.edu/~kirundi/dictionary/ ). She is an Associate Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, and Department chair of Anthropology, English Language Program (ELP), Philosophy, and Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (TESL). She is also on the core faculty of the African and African American Studies program. She has taught Theoretical and Applied Linguistics for the last 13 years. She spearheaded a Genocide Research Group that recently organized a symposium on Silencing Genocide in Africa and African Diaspora.