Lecturer of History - Department of Education.
I am a lecturer of History at KCA University. With over seven years of experience in university teaching and research, I have expertise in curriculum development, higher education pedagogy, and interdisciplinary teaching, particularly at the intersection of history and gender studies.
My research focuses on African history and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on gender, leadership, and power in East African societies. I examine indigenous governance systems, particularly gender-parallel leadership structures, to understand how authority is shared, negotiated, and contested.
I am particularly interested in women’s political agency, collective action, and informal influence within traditional and contemporary institutions. My work contributes to current scholarly debates in African feminist historiography and decolonial theory, which seek to challenge Eurocentric narratives and recover marginalized perspectives in African history.
I also engage with emerging research areas such as land and resource governance, conflict resolution and community justice systems, and masculinities and gendered power relations, linking historical analysis to contemporary social and political dynamics. My methodological approach combines archival research, oral history, and qualitative analysis.
Co-authored a book chapter:
Contributed to an edited volume:
Supported the full research cycle of my PhD, including proposal development, fieldwork, and dissertation completion, with a focus on gender, power, and governance in African societies.
I prioritize interactive classroom engagement, encouraging discussion-based learning and critical analysis of historical and gender-related issues. Students are actively involved in debates, presentations, and applied learning tasks that connect theory to lived experiences. Feedback from students has consistently emphasized clarity of instruction, accessibility, and supportive mentorship.
My teaching approach integrates interdisciplinary and experiential learning strategies, including:
I also continuously revise course content and assessment strategies to align with contemporary academic debates and evolving student needs, ensuring relevance and intellectual rigor.
I have a strong and steadily growing research output in African history and gender studies, with publications in peer-reviewed edited volumes, book chapters, and journal submissions under review, alongside active engagement in academic dissemination through international conferences, workshops, and policy-oriented book reviews. My scholarly work focuses on gender, leadership, and governance in African societies, with a particular emphasis on decolonial and feminist historiographies.
I have also participated in collaborative, multi-institutional research projects, including a University of Pretoria and Makerere University edited book project on resource contestation in the Albertine region, contributing to coordination, peer review, and chapter development.
My research has been developed within a strong international and interdisciplinary scholarly environment, including Makerere University, University of Michigan, University of Pretoria,and SSRC-supported global academic networks. This environment has provided access to high-level mentorship, methodological training, and interdisciplinary exchange in African studies, gender analysis, and decolonial theory.
My academic profile is shaped by engagement in internationally diverse research environments and collaborative scholarly networks. I have worked with and been trained across institutions in Africa and beyond including Makerere University, Kenyatta University, University of Michigan, University of Pretoria, and research networks supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and IFRA. These experiences have exposed me to multidisciplinary perspectives in African history, gender studies, and decolonial theory, strengthening the global relevance of my research.
I have actively participated in international conferences, seminars, and scholarly workshops, presenting research in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco, Botswana, the United States, and Ghana. These platforms have enabled continuous academic exchange with scholars from diverse regions and disciplines, particularly in African studies, gender and feminist scholarship, and political history.
In addition, I have contributed to collaborative research and publication projects involving multi-country case studies (including Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe), reinforcing comparative and transnational approaches to African gender and governance studies
