FELLOW 2024/25

Dr. Tabitha Naisiko is specialized in cultural anthropology and African studies. She has been a lecturer in the Department of Development studies in Makerere University since 2012. Prior to that, she held teaching positions in Queen of Apostles ‘Philosophy Centre Jinja and Uganda Martyrs University. She worked as a Research Coordinator of the African Research and Documentation Centre in Uganda Martyrs University from 2003 to 2011 and Research Officer in the Cultural Research Centre Jinja. In the year 2009 – 2011, she was a researcher on a project of “Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme: Valuing and Managing Pluralism”; a tri-continental project that was concurrently run in the Netherlands, Uganda and Indonesia. She is also faculty member on the Young Leadership Forum training organised and sponsored by the Fredrich Egbert Stiftung Foundation on Module 7: Managing Diversity in Uganda. 

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • „Anthropological Critique and the Karamoja Question: Reflections on the Post Disarmament Livelihood Sources and Gender Disparities in the North East Region of Uganda.“ In: East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 7.1 (2024), 63–79, https://doi.org/10.37284/eajtcr.7.1.2034.
  • „The Paradox of Love and Violence against Women in Families: A Loophole in the Agents of Socialization?“ In: East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 5.2 (2022), 12–23, https://doi.org/10.37284/eajtcr.5.2.611.
  • „An Anthropological Discourse to Christian Views on Polygamy and Plural Relationships in Uganda.“ In: East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 4.1 (2021), 8–15, https://doi.org/10.37284/2707-5370.
  • „Family Governance and other Dilemmas of Biomedical Ethics in Reproductive Health in Uganda.“ In: East African Social Science Research Review 37.2 (2020), 1–17, https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eassrr/article/view/198120.
  • Ritual and Human Development: An Exploration of the Experiences of the Sabiny of Eastern Uganda on Rites of Initiation to Adulthood. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016.
  • „Conserving the Environment through Traditional African Religion (TAR): Reflections on a Visit to Three Sacred Spaces in Mayuge District of Uganda.“ In: Thomas Kochalumchuvattil (Hrsg.): African Spirituality: Facts, Meaning and Values. Bengualuru: ATC Publications, 2016, 27–60.