MISR Open Day - May 2, 2026 Read more OPENING - SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, Makerere Institute of Social Research Read more Dr. Mbasughun Awarded Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Read more CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE MPHIL/PH.D 2026 CLASS Read more Dr. Andrea Cassatella Receives Research Excellence Award Read more Upcoming Events 02 May Public Talk MISR Open Day : Staff and Students : Okot p’Bitek Pavilion News & Announcements Read More Dr. Mbasughun Awarded Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Read More CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE MPHIL/PH.D 2026 CLASS Read More Dr. Andrea Cassatella Receives Research Excellence Award Read More Ms. Lomokol Reframes Debates on Pastoral Violence in Karamoja Read More Ms. Mbasughun Successfully Defends PhD Thesis on Nigerian Middle Belt Consciousness Read More Five MISR Students Win SSRC Research Grants Read More MISR Students and Staff Participate in MakRun 2025 Read More Prof. Toyin Falola headlines MISR Wednesday seminar series Read More Applications for Academic year 2026 are CLOSED Read More Applications for Academic year 2026 are CLOSED Graduate Education Discover the four broad themes that define our interdisciplinary MPhil/PhD program Research & Projects MISR is committed to critical social research MISR Publications Explore our book series, the MISR Review, and working papers Recent Publications by MISR Faculty & Students Decolonization as Praxis: Yusuf Bala Usman on History, the Nation, and the Remaking of the Nigerian Constitution 2026 Journal Article Why Is There a Woman at the Maandamano (Protests)? 2026 Magazine Article Translation as Healing 2026 Journal Article In the Rwenzoris MISR Community Tours the Rwenzori Region - A Travel Journal 2025 Journal MISR Review #7 2025 Book Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings 2025 Journal Article Between Translation and Resistance: Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings and Decolonization 2025 Magazine Article Reading Mahmood Mamdani in a Decolonizing World. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today 2024 Journal Article Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex 2024 Book MISR Review #6 2023 Book Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority 2023 Journal Article The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda 2023 Journal Article America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda 2023 Book Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities 2022 Book The State and the Puzzle of Ethnicity: Rethinking Mass Violence in Uganda's Rwenzori Region 2021 Book Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy : States of violence 2018 Book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism 2018 Book Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States: Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia 2016 Book Getting the Question Right: Interdisciplinary Explorations at Makerere University 2013 Book Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity 2012 Book Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda 2011 Book PhD FellowsPublicationsResourcesLibraryFunding Opportunities
Read More Dr. Mbasughun Awarded Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
