Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela

Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela is an Associate Chancellor and Vice Provost Professor at the University of Illinois, specializing in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. Their research focuses on South African higher education systems, organizational culture, equity policies, and intergroup conflict. They hold a Fulbright Scholar Award (2018) and have contributed to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

Research interests prominently feature decolonial approaches to higher education governance, inclusion frameworks in Sub-Saharan Africa, and intersectional analyses of race and gender in academic settings. Recent works explore feminist decoloniality as a care practice in universities and comparative analyses of inclusion policies between South Africa and Ghana.

Publications include chapters in prestigious edited collections like Handbook of Education Policy and Hear Our Voices: Race, Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy. Their work bridges policy analysis with lived experiences of marginalized groups in academia.