Otrude Nontobeko Moyo
- Ph.D.
- MSW Program Director & Campus Director, IU South Bend / Professor
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IU South Bend
Contact
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(574) 520-4395
- otrmoyo@iu.edu
About
Otrude N. Moyo is a Professor and Program Director at the School of Social Work - Indiana University South Bend. Otrude's scholarship focuses on social development issues, diversity, social justice and critical multiculturalism including, Indigenous knowledges, inequality/structural violence, and social change as it pertains to Southern Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. Methodologically, Otrude uses auto-ethnography and collaborative applied research in community. Other scholarly interest include the address of social issues within a local-global perspective, prevention of substance use; African immigrant experiences, Ubuntu and Africanity, environmental justice and community based teaching - learning. Otrude has been teaching both at undergraduate and graduate levels for the past twenty years in the areas of social policy, social work practice with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, intercultural/international social work and diversity and critical multiculturalism.
Education
PhD
Emphasis/Major: Social Policy2001 - Brandeis University, the Heller School of Social Policy
Dissertation: Dealing with Work in its Context: Analysis of Household Work and Provisioning Strategies in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
MA
Emphasis/Major: Social Policy2000 - Brandeis University - Heller Graduate School
MSW
Emphasis/Major: social Work1997 - Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
BSW
Emphasis/Major: Social Work1995 - University of Zimbabwe, School of Social Work
Dissertation: Exploring treatment outcomes of mothers who come to detox centers with their children and those without, Southside Chicago
Research Interests
Social Development Issues
African Immigrants and Integration Issues
Indigenous Knowledges and Decolonizing Methods
Foundational Philosophies in Service Provision
Community Engagement
International Learning
Teaching Interests
Diversity and Social Justice
Policy Analysis and Policy Practice
Social Work Practice with Organizations, Communities and Societies
Social Work with Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers
Local- Global Perspectives in Addressing Social Problems
Publications
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Moyo, O. N. (2021). Africanity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Discourse. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59785-6
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Moyo, O. N., & Nomngcoyiya, T. (2020). Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2(31).
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Moyo, O. N. (2020). Examining Oppressions as a Way of Valuing Diversity: Using a Critical Multicultural Lens in Educating Students for Intercultural Engagement. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5268-1
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Moyo, O. N., & Finney, M. J. (2016). Creating Healthier Academic Work Environments: Exploring Best Practices at the Departmental Level. The Department Chair, 27(2), 22-25.
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Moyo, O. N., & Sibindi, V. L. (2016). Unlearning Schooling in Autocracy. REFLECTIONS: Narratives of Professional Helping, 9(3), 27-34.
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Moyo, O. N. (2016). Navigating my journey towards learning Ubuntu - A way to decolonizing myself. In REFLECTIONS: Narratives of Professional Helping (Vols. 9, Issues 3, pp. 9-16).
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Moyo, O. N., & , L. R. (2016). Ubuntu Art Project- Umunt’ngumunt’ngabantu. REFLECTIONS: Narratives of Professional Helping, 9(3), 3-8.
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Moyo, O. N. (2016). A Beautiful Community, But, a Troubled City: Flint’s Water Crisis. Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 28, 233-247.
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Moyo, O. N. (2016). Social Development in Southern Africa. REFLECTIONS: Narrative of Professional Helping, 3(9).
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Moyo, O. N., & Couter, D. (2016). Political Consciousness: A Perpetual Quest in Social Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 27(3), 137-142.
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Moyo, O. N. (2014). Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe (pp. 85-102).
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Moyo, O. N. (2014). Child Welfare in the Context of Changing Socio Demographics: Rethinking Approaches and Priorities in the United States.
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Moyo, O. N. (2013). Racialization in Higher Education: Experiences of an African Born Scholar Teaching and Learning in the United States. Peter Lang Publishing.
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Moyo, O. N. (2012). Interrogating the New Racism "Color Blindness" in Human Service Delivery Agencies’ Efforts with "New Immigrants" in Southern Maine. Journal of European Research Institute for Social Work, ERIS. Published.
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Moyo, O. N. (2012). Africa Special Issue. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 23(3).
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Moyo, O. N. (2010). A commitment to social justice in a capitalist democracy: Are we being critical citizens or just moving along cliches?. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 21(1), 3-7.
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Richard, H., Moosa- Mitha, M., & Moyo, O. N. (2010). Towards a borderless social work: Reconsidering notions of International social work. International Social Work, 53(3), 629-643.
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Moyo, O. N., & Saliwe, K. (2009). Lone Motherhood in Zimbabwe: The Socio-Economic Conditions of Lone Parents and their Children. Journal of Social Work and Public Health, 24(1), 161-177.
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Moyo, O. N., & Moldovan, V. (2008). Lessons for Social Workers: Hurricane Katrina as Social Disaster . International Social Work, 30(1), 1-12.
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Moyo, O. N. (2007). Broadening Constructions of Patenting: Perspectives from African Immigrants and Refugees in Northern New England. Verlag Barbara Budrich.
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Moyo, O. N. (2007). The Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in Urban Townships, Zimbabwe. Brill Publishers.
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Moldovan, V., & Moyo, O. N. (2007). Contradictions in Ideologies of Helping: Examples from Zimbabwe and Moldova. International Social Work, 50(4), 461-472.
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Moyo, O. N. (2007). Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case of a Family Coping with Violence. APAD Bulletin - Euro African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development, 27-28, 93-108.
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Kawewe, S., & Moyo, O. N. (2005). Financial Assistance: Public Aid and Food Stamps. Waveland Press.
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Moyo, O. N. (2005). The Child Labor Movement: The Case of Zimbabwe. Social Development Issues, 27(2), 38-56.
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Moyo, O. N. (2004). Zimbabwe. Child Labor. Greenwood Publishing Group.
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Moyo, O. N. (2004). Crossing Borders; Immigrant African Women Scholars in Academe: Reflections on Openings and Closures Presented by Transnationalism and Internationalization of Higher Education. Nova Publishing Company.
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Moyo, O. N. (2002). Poverty and Globalization in Africa. New Global Development: Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare, XVIII(1-2), 51-68.
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Moyo, O. N., & Kawewer, S. (2002). The Dynamics of a Racialized, Gendered, Ethnicized and Economically Stratified Society: Understanding the Socio-Economic Status of Women in Zimbabwe. Feminist Economics, 8(2), 163-181.
Presentations
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Moyo, O. N. (2021). Decolonizing Academic Spaces. Women’s & Gender Studies - IUSB, South Bend.
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Moyo, O. N. (2021). Cultivating Mutually Beneficial International Collaborations by Disrupting Coloniality. Carnergie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP), Washington, DC.
Cultivating Mutually Beneficial International Collaborations by Disrupting Coloniality, Using a Relational Lens - A Case Example of our Attempts at Unlearning Globalized Imaginaries of Implicit Coloniality
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Moyo, O. N. (2021). Ubuntu, Human Dignity and a Decent Society. Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch.
Institutional Services
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Organizer/Coordinator
2021 - Supporting Program GrowthServed in a graduate council committee that is establishing the Diversity Equity Inclusion Justice certificate at IUSB campus. -
Other
2021 -Facilitated a director's workshop for the College of Health Sciences - Using Strengths in Mindful Communication. -
Organizer/Coordinator
2022 - Organized Monthly Meetings on Social Work Teaching & LearningCoordinated faculty and staff monthly meetings -
Committee Member
2021 -Committee Member - International and Global Affairs monthly meetings. -
Organizer/Coordinator
2020 -Initiated and facilitated community dialogues -
Committee Member
2023 - Graduate Interdisciplinary SymposiumPlanning and hosting the Graduate Interdisciplinary Symposium -
Committee Chair
2022 - Search and Screen -
Other
2023 - Facilitator - Case Management Training of Titan Success Leaders -
Committee Member
2022 - Community and Organizational Leadership Focus Area -
Committee Member
2022 - Faculty Senate Teaching CommitteeAttend monthly meetings; provide minutes and participate in campus wide presentations, review of applicants for the Trustee Teaching Awards. -
Organizer/Coordinator
2023 - Training/WorkshopCoordinating the planning of the workshop and facilitating the workshop. -
Committee Chair
2023 - Search CommitteeSearch Committee- IUSSW Lafeyatte, IN Campus Director and Field Coordinator positions -
Committee Chair
2023 - Planning Commitee - Graduate Student Research SymposiumPlanning committee annual IUSB Graduate Students Symposium, three social work students presented April 27th, 2023.
Memberships
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Council on Social Work Education
2016 to Present -
African Literature Association
2006 to Present -
International Federation of Social Workers
2002 to Present -
Social Welfare Action Alliance
2002 to Present
Professional Services
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Editor, Journal Editor
2023 to Present - Journal Editing -
Other
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Site Visitor
2017 to Present - Council on Social Work Education - Site Visitor -
Editor, Journal Editor
2001 to Present - Journal of Progressive Human Services Editorial Collective Member
Trainings
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Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP)
2019 to 2019 - University of Fort Hare, Alice, South AfricaIntegrating Local - Global Perspectives in the Address of Social Problems in collaboration with the Department of Social Work, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
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Visiting Fellow
2007 to 2007 - Durham University - School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom -
Visiting Research Fellowship
2003 to 2003 - Leiden University - the African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands