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Dr. Pempho Chinkondenji

Editor

Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

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About Dr. Pempho Chinkondenji

Pempho Chinkondenji is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. Her research is situated in the field of comparative and international education and broadly examines structural inequalities within educational policies and practices, with emphasis on African and African diaspora communities. More specifically, Dr. Chinkondenji’s research lies at the intersection of education, gender justice, student pregnancy, refugee education, and forced displacement. Grounded in African onto-epistemologies, her scholarship draws from African feminisms, Ubuntu, and post/de-colonial thought to interrogate gender and power dynamics in international education. Dr. Chinkondenji’s book (2026), Drop-out, Push-out, or Walk-out?, centers on issues of social justice and equity for pregnant learners and school-aged mothers in international contexts, critically challenging dominant notions of studenthood and motherhood within and beyond educational spaces. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Comparative Education Review, Gender and Education, International Journal of Educational Development, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. In 2025, Dr. Chinkondenji was named a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.