MISR Director, Assoc. Prof. Lyn Ossome, Publishes New Book, "Democracy’s Subjections" Read more Dr. Olive Lomokol Receives Honorable Mention for the Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation in African Politics, 2026 Read more Dr. Mbasughun Awarded Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Read more Dr. Andrea Cassatella Receives Research Excellence Award Read more Ms. Lomokol Reframes Debates on Pastoral Violence in Karamoja Read more There's no up-coming events are scheduled right now. Please check back later. News & Announcements Read More MISR Director, Assoc. Prof. Lyn Ossome, Publishes New Book, "Democracy’s Subjections" Read More Dr. Olive Lomokol Receives Honorable Mention for the Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation in African Politics, 2026 Read More Publication alert: Chapter by Dr. Oluwatosin Orimolade Read More Book Launch: Beyond Ethnic Patriotism Read More Wednesday Seminar - August 12, 2026 Read More Workshop on Sudan Read More 2026 MISR Graduate Students' Conference to Be Held from 2 - 4 July Read More Call for Papers: MISR Graduate Students’ Conference – 2026 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 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 Nationalist Imagination and Political Community in Nigeria 2026 Book Chapter Psychic Life and Decolonization 2026 Journal Article 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 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 In the Rwenzoris MISR Community Tours the Rwenzori Region - A Travel Journal 2025 Journal MISR Review #7 2025 Book Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex 2024 Book Reading Mahmood Mamdani in a Decolonizing World. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today 2024 Journal Article MISR Review #6 2023 Book Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority 2023 Journal Article America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda 2023 Book The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda 2023 Journal Article 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. Olive Lomokol Receives Honorable Mention for the Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation in African Politics, 2026
Read More Dr. Mbasughun Awarded Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
