Visiting Scholars

Current Visiting Scholars


Sevgi Kaya-Kasikci (Hans de Wit Fellow)

Sevgi Kaya-Kasikci (Hans de Wit Fellow) 

Sevgi Kaya-Kasikci joins CIHE in March 2023 as our inaugural Hans de Wit Fellow! Sevgi earned her Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the Middle East Technical University (Türkiye). Along with colleagues at the Middle East Technical University, Sevgi has worked on research projects focused on various issues in higher education, including the higher education experiences of refugee students, internationalization of higher education, and online assessment in higher education. Her research interests include educational policy, equity, and social justice in higher education, social justice leadership in higher education, and the internationalization of higher education.

Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma

Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma 

Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, where among other courses he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in educational administration and management, educational leadership and planning and policy, planning and administration. He obtained his doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), and was also a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Boston University (USA) in 1998-1999.

He has also been a visiting (research) scholar at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) (2017), University of Bergen (Norway) (2009) and Mount Kenya University (Kenya) (2019). He is an immediate former Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations, Management and Lifelong Learning of the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, the position he served for six years and four months.

He has researched and published extensively in higher education in Africa and has undertaken consultancy assignments on higher education issues in Africa for both international and local organizations such the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Organization for the Social Science Research in Africa (OSSREA), African Association for Higher Education Financing Agencies (AAHEFA), Inter University Council of East Africa (IUCEA), UNESCO/IIEP, Winrock International, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Tanzania), the University of Dar es Salaam and Controller and Auditor General (Tanzania) among others.