Doctoral Candidate in History
About
My research interests focus on the legal, constitutional, political and social history of Uganda. In particular, I am interested in how legal and constitutional ideas, rules, and principles evolved in Uganda and how they were deployed, contested, and obscured. My MA thesis entitled, “The Power Dynamics of constitutional making processes in Uganda, 1958-1995,” examined the politics and forces that shaped the development of Uganda’s national constitutions since independence. My current PhD research project seeks to situate state courts and the law, broadly conceived, in its social, cultural, intellectual and political contexts. By focusing of on the High Court of Uganda, the highest appellant court in Uganda’s history, I aim to examine how colonially instituted courts administered justice and how ordinary Ugandans in their pursuit for justice, experienced, interacted with, and shaped the modern legal systems from the highest judicial levels.
Field(s) of Study
- 20th century East Africa
- Law
- Property
- Gender
- Nationalism
