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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 Democra…

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

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

News

New Acquisitions in the Library

04 Oct 2018

MISR Director publishes op ed in The New York Times on the latest South Sudan agreement

25 Sep 2018

Congratulations to Temesgen Tesfamariam Beyan on His Successful PhD Defence

27 Aug 2018

Events

16

Jan

Seminar: Tor Halvorsen

06

Mar

Public lectures - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

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