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About MISR

The Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) has had a proud existence since its establishment in 1948. The secret of this pride has been its ability to change with the times, at times to muster t...

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GRADUATE EDUCATION

Four broad themes define the programme’s intellectual focus: Political Studies, Political Economy, Historical Studies, and Cultural Studies. Students specialise in one field, but take classes across all four.

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Popular Readings

America's Imperial Unraveling

Politics

The MISR Review

Research

Graduate Education

Featured work

Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States…

MISR Working Paper No. 29: MISR Views on the National Discussion on Makerere…

MISR Working Paper No. 21: Re-Thinking the Northern Identity: Local Government and…

News

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO 2020 CLASS

10 May 2019

MISR Organises Inaugural Meeting of the Global Supra-National Research Collaboration on ‘Decolonisation, the Disciplines and the University’, March 30-31, 2019

01 Apr 2019

PhD Public Defense

04 Feb 2019

Events

22

May

Reflections on the state of literature in Kiswahili in the Anamoly of African Literature Ken Walibora

29

May

China, Ethiopia and the Significance of the Belt and Road Initiative/ Barry Sautman - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Yan Hairong - Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Latest Publications

The Impact of Governance on Research in Ugandan Universities

By A.B.K. Kasozi

MISR Working Paper No 30: Yemeni Diaspora, Law and Colonial Social Order in 1930 Djibouti.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

MISR Working Paper No. 29: MISR Views on the National Discussion on Makerere University

By A.B.K Kasozi & Mahmood Mamdani