Otrude N. Moyo

I (Otrude N. Moyo) am currently an assistant professor at the University of Southern Maine- Maine, USA. My teaching and scholarship addresses comparative social welfare policy connecting themes on families, work, and socio economic changes, inequality, extending to transnational issues within the realm of community and international development.

My doctoral thesis dealt with household work and provisioning strategies in Zimbabwe. I have published articles addressing poverty in Africa and socio-economic status of women in Zimbabwe. I have worked as a junior researcher with the Center for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) at the University of Zimbabwe and a project-monitoring officer in natural resources management program (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe.

I am working towards a book publication tentatively titled: Living on the Margins of a Global Economy: African Families, their Work and Livelihoods- A Case of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. This is an ethnographic study linking African livelihoods, work and well-being. Other projects that I am involved in include: an ethnographic study exploring how families of African immigrants and refugees work and provision in the USA and linking their work and livelihoods to their places of origin.