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Biography

Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela is the vice provost for Global Engagement at the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Educational Leadership Program at the Warner School and a professorship in the faculty of education at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Prior to her current appointment, she served as the associate chancellor and vice-provost for global affairs & strategies and professor of higher education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also previously served as the assistant dean for international studies and professor of higher education at Michigan State University.

Among her various honors, Mabokela is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Education, honoris causa, from the University of Pretoria, a former Fulbright New Century Scholar, and a Fulbright International Education Administrators program participant in France. Mabokela's research seeks to understand experiences of marginalized populations and aims to inform and influence institutional policies that affect these groups within institutions of higher education. Her research centers on the examination of three interrelated themes: 1) organizational change and organizational culture in higher education; 2) gender in higher education; and 3) higher education in transitional societies. She has devoted a significant part of her career over the past two decades to studying these education issues in South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, Ghana, Egypt, and Pakistan, among others. Throughout her career, she has secured over $27 million in external funding to support various educational and research initiatives. 

She is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of seven books and has published extensively in national and international academic journals, including the Comparative Education Review, American Educational Research Journal, the Africa Education Review, and The Review of Higher Education, Comparative Education, and Higher Education, among others.