Erasmus Mugisha Mugabo

Erasmus
Fellow Status
Active
Thesis Title
Thinking within the State: The Batwa of South Western Uganda
About me

Erasmus is a Ugandan Doctoral Fellow pursuing an Interdisciplinary MPhil/PhD in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. In 2022, he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) from Makerere University.

 

Research Focus
His research interests broadly encompass the identity question, minority issues, and political agency in the postcolonial era. Specifically, Erasmus studies the Batwa community of southwestern Uganda, examining how their minority status has been constituted and reproduced, as well as their political agency within the framework of the Ugandan modern state.