MISR is pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Dr. Lyn Ossome, Senior Research Fellow, Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence, New York, London, Boulder: Lexington Books, 2018.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University has received financial support from The Andrew W Mellon Foundation to strengthen doctoral training in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University. It is expected that this intervention will establish a critical mass of home grown and supervised PhDs using a cohort based doctoral training model.
We are proud to announce that Frank Emmanuel Muhereza successfully defended his thesis titled,"The Transformation of Karamoja: Sedentarization of Pastoralists and the Adoption of Settled crop farming" on Wednesday January 24 2018. His main supervisor was Prof. Mahmood Mamdani and the opponent was Professor Issa G. Shivji, Professor Emeritus, Univ.of Dar es Salaam and the Director of Nyerere Resource Centre, Tanzania.
We are proud to announce that Joseph Kasule successfully defended his thesis titled,"Islam in the State: A Genealogy of the Muslim Minority Question in Uganda" on Friday 19th January 2018. His main supervisor was Prof. Mahmood Mamdani and the opponent was Professor Abdelwahab El-Affendi from Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, Qatar.
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Location: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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We are proud to announce that six MISR MPhil/PhD students were awarded various fellowships from the SSRC Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa Program and the Open Society Foundations.
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MISR staff, and thesis examiners, pose with the author Haydee Bangerezako (center front) after the defence on August 28th, 2017 in MISR seminar room 1.
By Eddie Ssemakula.
Sixty-six of the world’s leading minds were announced as Fellows of the British Academy on Friday 21 July 2017.
See, https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research
We are pleased to announce that one among these was MISR Director, Professor Mahmood Mamdani.
Professor Mahmood Mamdani, delivered this year’s TB Davie Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, 22 August 2017, at University of Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre on Upper Campus.
His lecture, titled Decolonising the Post-Colonial University, cut to the heart of debates that are still raging across South Africa’s higher education institutions.