Biography
Dr M’Mbogori is a senior Kenyan archaeologist with considerable experience in leadership roles and with an impressive international profile. She has spent the last seven years as Deputy Director and then Country Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa where she has been a close collaborator of multiple staff within the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute. She has held CoI and PI roles with Cambridge staff and has previously been a visiting scholar. Dr M’Mbogori is currently the President of the Pan-African Archaeological Association and was previously a department head at the National Museums of Kenya
Key Publications
Key publications:
Keynote ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
- 2022: Amplifying African Voices in Peacekeeping and State building- international workshop- Funding Research (KU)
- 2019 (July) Association of South African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA), Cape town, South Africa
- 2018 (June): Society for Africanist Archaeologist (SAFA) Toronto, Canada
- 2018: Disaster preparedness and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa- ICMS (NMK)
- 2008:The role of National Museums of Kenya in the wake of post-election violence: lessons http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/cam/activities/past_conferences/1999conf/Nki... (Georgetown, Guyana)
SELECT RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2015) Population and Ceramic Traditions: Revisiting Tana ware of Coastal Kenya (AD 7th-14th Century) (Cambridge Monographs in African Arc, BAR International Series of African Archaeology) Cambridge University Press
- Davies, M.I.J and M’Mbogori, F.N. (eds) (2013) Humans and the environment: new archaeological perspectives for the 21st century. Oxford, Oxford Press
Academically Reviewed Book chapters
- M’Mbogori, F.N, Kinyua, M. Katello, A., Gufu, A. Lane, P. Using Community Archaeology to Protect Indigenous Wells and Pastoral Biocultural Heritage in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia Oxford Encyclopaedia of Anthropology chapter 43 (Past peer review stage- in Press 2021)
- M’Mbogori, F.N., Anthropological Research objectivity: A privilege for exogenous Investigators? In Thiaw I. ed. Self and at home in social sciences field practices- a Publication of URICA (Past peer review stage- in press 2021)
- Davies, M.J., Folorunso, C.A., Kipruto, T.K, M’Mbogori, F.N., Moore, H.L, Orijemie, A. and Alex Schoeman, A., (2016) The ‘Useable’ Archaeology of African Farming Systems Archaeology in Karim S. Amanda E. and Chrissie S. eds. African Archaeology without Frontiers. Johannesburg, Wits University press 1-32
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2016) Traditional Technologies: A conservation Challenge in Anne-Marie Deisser and Mugwima Njuguna eds. Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Kenya. London, UCL 108-124
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2003) Cost-effectiveness in emergency preparedness and response: a case for African Museums- International Symposium Proceedings, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India ICOM International Council for Museums, Paris 169-176
Academic Peer Reviewed Papers and Journal Articles
- O. Pamela, Khalaf N., Merlo S, Beldados, A. M’Mbogori, F.N., Tiki, W., Lane, P.J. (2022) Remote sensing for biocultural heritage preservation in an African semi-arid region: the case study of indigenous wells of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia Remote Sens. 2022, 14,314 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020314 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing
- M’Mbogori, F.N., Kinyua, M., Gufu, A. Lane, P. (2021) Changes to water management and declining pastoral economic resilience in northern Kenya: the example of Gabra wells. Publication ID Water 753 in Water WIRES (Past peer review stage- in Press)
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2021) Anthropological Research objectivity: A privilege for exogenous Investigators? In Thiaw I. eds. Self and at home in social sciences field practices- a Publication of URICA (Past peer review stage- in press)
- M’Mbogori, F.N. (2021) Human and Environmental Interactions in Late Iron Age Kenya. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.264
- M’Mbogori, F.N., Gakii, K., Ochieng, P.N. (2020) Pottery Chaîne Opératoire among the Mbeere People of Mt. Kenya Region: Continuity and Change. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 35 (1) 160-171
- Madingou, B.T., Herve, G., Perrin, M. M’Mbogori, F.N., Guemona, D., Mathe P.E, Williamson, D., Brunner, C.R. (2020) First archeomagnetic data from Kenya and Chad: Analysis of iron furnaces from Mt. Kenya and Guera Massif. Physics of the earth and planetary interiors Vol. 309
- M’Mbogori, F. N., (2018) Clay Source Variability and Implications on Archaeological Interpretations: An Ethnoachaeological Perspective. Journal of African Archaeological Review 35: 597-608
- Manzo, G. Gabbriellini, S., Roux, V, M'Mbogori F.N.,(2018) Complex Contagions and the Diffusion of Innovations: Evidence from a small-N study Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 25 (4), 1109-1154
- M’Mbogori, F.N. and Thiaw, I (2018) Pan-African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (editorial contribution) Antiquity , 92 (366) 1419 – 1428 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.254
- M’Mbogori F.N. (2017) Farming in Eastern Africa: Historical and archaeological perspective. Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.134
- M’Mbogori, F.N. (2012) Populations and Ceramics. Azania Journal of African Archaeology 47:(2) 245-246
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2013) Late Iron a Age technology of Mt. Kenya region: the case studies of the Kangai and Kanyua archaeological sites in Mbeere District Ethnographic in Humphris, J. and Rehren T. (Eds) The world of Iron Archetype Publication, UK 46-55
Non Peer Reviewed Published Museum and Heritage Articles
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2020) African Heritage Held in Captivity. https://www.goethe.de/prj/lat/en/spu/22080022.html
- M’Mbogori, F.N. (2019): Post-Colonial Context of Sub-Saharan Africa Cultural Heritage Preservation GCPCH student textbook and ANTH 207 The Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage Stefan, S. ed. University of Yale
- M’Mbogori, F.N., (2019), Share or return of objects: How Africa can own what is hers - Magazine - Share or return of objects: Goethe-Institut Kenia https://www.goethe.de/ins/ke/en/kul/mag/22027422.html
- M’Mbogori, F.N. Pottery Making Practices among the Mbeere, Tharaka, Tigania
- M’Mbogori, F.N. (ed) The Calabash- The Cultural Heritage Magazine
MEDIA COVERAGE
- https://stories.council.science/unlocking-science-history-water-scarcity-africa/
- CAREER WOMAN – Meet Freda Nkirote; Director, British Institute in East Africa (nairobiwire.com)
- https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/adblock?u=https://www.standardmedia.co.k...
- https://thisisafrica.me/clay-pots-hold-key-understanding-kenyan-cultures/
- http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Art-too-needs-marketing-to-make...
- http://kenyayetu.net/who-are-we-2/
- http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Cashing-in-on-cultural-tourism-/434746-2308948-2usuu9/index.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Nkirote
