Section
Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership

Faith Ngunjiri, Ed.D.

Dr. Ngunjiri is a native of Kenya and is new on the faculty this year (2008), having come from Yale University where she was Associate Director, Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace (ESW) program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Dr. Ngunjiri was a faculty member in the Organizational Leadership and Supervision division at Indiana University-Purdue University.  She has also taught as an adjunct at Regent University (Virginia Beach) and University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Phone: 484-581-1263
Fax: 484-581-1276
Email: fngunjir@eastern.edu

EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Education - Leadership Studies,  Bowling Green University, Ohio
  • Masters in Organization Development, Bowling Green University, Ohio
  • Master of Arts, Mission Studies, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

EASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRST U.S. WINNER OF NVIVO 8 GRANT

Research Software Used by Dr. Chang, Dr. Ngunjiri and Students

St. Davids, PA, August 20, 2009:  Eastern University has been awarded an inaugural NVivo 8 Teaching Grant worth $10,000, allowing its doctoral students to benefit from the latest qualitative data analysis technology this fall. Dr. Heewon Chang, Chair of Graduate Education and Professor of Education and Organizational Leadership, and colleague Dr. Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Assistant Professor and Director of Research, are the first academics in the United States to receive the grant. They were chosen from a large field of applicants from across the U.S. and Canada.

  • Dawkins, C.D., & Ngunjiri F.W. (2008) Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in South Africa: A Description and Comparative Analysis - Journal of Business Communication, 45(3), 286-307
  • Rocking the Boat Without Falling Out: Spirited Tempered Radicals as Agents of Community Transformation. UCEA Review, XLVI (3)p. 1-4
  • Ngunjiri & Lengel Intercultural and Organizational Communication Practices of African Women Leaders: Portraits of Tempered Radicalism. International and Intercultural Communication Annual
  • Banking on Women for Poverty Reduction: Portrait of Kenya Women's Finance Trust. In Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty; edited by James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel: IAP Press.
  • Painting a Counter-narrative of African Womanhood: Reflections on how my Research Transformed Me Journal of Research Practice,3,2007

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE

  • Academy of Management annual conferences - Reviewer, Chair, Presenter
  • American Education Research Association annual conferences - Reviewer
  • National Communication Association annual conferences - Presenter
  • International Leadership Association - Presenter
  • African Studies Association - Presenter