Lyn Ossome

Lyn Ossome is Associate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. She has held previous faculty positions as Associate Professor of Political Studies at Wits University, Senior Research Fellow at MISR, and Visiting Presidential Professor at Yale University. Her specializations are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with research interests in gendered labour, land and agrarian questions, the modern state, and the political economy of gendered violence. Her books include Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence (2018), the co-edited volume Labour Questions in the Global South (2021), and a forthcoming monograph titled Democracy’s Subjections: Colonial Modernity and the Gendered Subject of Violence. She is one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, and Feminist Africa. She serves on numerous boards and is the current president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).