Venue: MISR Seminar Room 1 and virtually via zoom (link to be shared later).Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Public Lecture: "The Power of the State" by Prof. Toyin Falola Read more Upcoming Events 13 Aug Public Lecture "The Power of the State" : Prof. Toyin Falola : MISR Seminar Room 1 News & Announcements Read More Applications for Academic year 2026 are CLOSED Read More Applications for Academic year 2026 are CLOSED Read More Call for Papers : MISR Graduate Students’ Conference - 2025 Read More Dr. Katumusiime, Wins the Rahamon Bello Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in African Studies Read More Nine MISR students awarded the 2024-2025 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award Read More Call for Applications: Interdisciplinary MPhil/Ph.D Programme in Social Studies - Class of 2025 Read More What does Palestine have to do with Africa? Read More Four MISR students have been awarded the 2023-2024 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award 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 MISR Review #7 2025 Journal 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 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 Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority 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 Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism 2018 Book Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy : States of violence 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 Nine MISR students awarded the 2024-2025 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award
Read More Call for Applications: Interdisciplinary MPhil/Ph.D Programme in Social Studies - Class of 2025
Read More Four MISR students have been awarded the 2023-2024 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
