About me
Joseph Kasule received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Studies from Makerere University. He is currently a Research Fellow at MISR, where he researches and convenes courses in cultural anthropology.
Fellow Status
Current Status
Research Fellow, MISR, Uganda
Research Focus
He works on aspects of Islam, Secularism, Violence, and Coloniality/Decoloniality. His recent book Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power (James Currey, 2022) provides a genealogy of the historical Muslim Question in Uganda and its relationship with non-Muslim political power. He has also published the Historical Dictionary of Uganda (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). His ongoing book projects include: Kasangwawo ne Sselwajj’okwoota, being a Luganda translation of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen & Subject (MISR, 2024); Public Intellectualism & Decolonial Epistemologies in Contestable Political Imaginations of Bergen & Buganda, (MISR, 2024) and Genealogies of Monotheism: Muslim Practices in Pre-Arabic Africa (MISR, forthcoming).