MISR Global Conversations Seminar by Prof. Nivedita Menon Read more Ms. Lomokol Reframes Debates on Pastoral Violence in Karamoja Read more Ms. Mbasughun Successfully Defends PhD Thesis on Nigerian Middle Belt Consciousness Read more Five MISR Students Win SSRC Research Grants Read more MISR Students and Staff Participate in MakRun 2025 Read more Upcoming Events 25 Feb Public Talk MISR Global Conversations Seminar : Prof. Nivedita Menon : MISR Seminar Room 1 04 Mar Seminar From Lusaka to Doha: Illiberal war-making and liberal peace in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo : Dr. David N. Tshimba : MISR Seminar Room 1 13 Mar Public Talk Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders. : Prof. Aili Mari Tripp : MISR Seminar Room 1 News & Announcements Read More Ms. Lomokol Reframes Debates on Pastoral Violence in Karamoja Read More Ms. Mbasughun Successfully Defends PhD Thesis on Nigerian Middle Belt Consciousness Read More Five MISR Students Win SSRC Research Grants Read More MISR Students and Staff Participate in MakRun 2025 Read More Prof. Toyin Falola headlines MISR Wednesday seminar series 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 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 Translation as Healing 2026 Journal Article Between Translation and Resistance: Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings and Decolonization 2025 Magazine Article Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings 2025 Journal Article MISR Review #7 2025 Book Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex 2024 Book Reading Mahmood Mamdani in a Decolonizing World. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today 2024 Journal Article MISR Review #6 2023 Book Gender and the bifurcated state: women in Uganda’s traditional authority 2023 Journal Article America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda 2023 Book The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda 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
