Kenda Mutongi is Professor of History at MIT. Dr. Mutongi’s scholarship focuses on the cultural history of Kenya.  

As a fellow, Dr. Mutongi’s book-length project is Arson and Protest in Kenyan Schools, 1910 to the Present.  It traces the history of both violent and non-violent protest by secondary school students in Kenya from the 1910s to the present; it will enrich historiographies on education, protest, childhood, family, precarity and resilience, and on colonial and postcolonial Africa.