Rate My Professor Caroline Kihato

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. She holds a BA, an MSc in Development Planning from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of South Africa. Her work centers on urbanization, migration, gender, and spatial justice, with a particular focus on the everyday lives of migrant women in Johannesburg.

Kihato previously served as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, as a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and as southern African program coordinator for Urban LandMark. She is the author of the book Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City, published by Wits University Press in 2013, and co-editor of Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide, published in 2010. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development.