George Mpanga

Recent Publications 

• The Archive of a Ugandan Missionary: Writings by and about Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, 1890s-1950s, Emma Wild-Wood and George Mpanga (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)

• ‘His mother became medicine: drinking problems, ethical transformation and material care in central Uganda’, with China Scherz, Africa, 89 (2019): 125–46.

2015 to Present, Research Associate, University of Virginia 

• ‘Investigating the role of spiritual and social support in processes of healing and personal transformation’

• Funded by the National Science Foundation [NSF]

 2013 to Present, Affiliated Researcher

• Makerere Institute of Social Research

•  Uganda Council for Science and Technology

 2013, Centre for Global Christianity Worldwide, University of Cambridge                                     

Towards a critical biography of Apolo Kivebulaya

• Investigate archive sources in order to write a biography of this figure and his conversion to colonial Christianity

• Interview family members, religious leaders, and people in his place of birth

• Working with Church archives in Namirembe and Mityana Cathedrals, plus other archival centres

• Translate and transcribe relevant literature

2012, University of Stratford, UK

Class, Disposability and the Environmental Politics of Garbage in Urban Uganda

• Identify and interview stake holders in garbage collection, including Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) officials, garbage collection company officials, recycling personnel and business people

• English-Luganda translation and transcription

• Attend workshops and seminars of garbage stakeholders in Kampala

• Visit the main garbage dumping centres

 2011– 2012, University of Chicago

The Anti-Politics of an Interminable Adolescence, Gender, Age and Self Shaming In Kampala

• Identify and interview adolescents, parents, political leaders, religious and opinion leaders

• Analyse and translate radio programmes designed for adolescent children

• Translation and transcription: field ethnography and Luganda Press

 2009– 2010, University of Cambridge, Faculty of History

Political Theologies in Late Colonial Buganda

• Provide English-Luganda translation during extended, semi- structured interviews with former and current political activists

• Identify people to be interviewed and schedule appointments

• Attend Lukiiko (Buganda Parliament) sessions

• Extensive archival work in Kampala, Entebbe, Mukono and Soroti

• Translation and transcription: field ethnography and Luganda Press

• Manage project funds

 2007 – 2008, University of California, Berkeley

The Ethics of Inequality: Charity, Sustainable Development and the Problem of Dependence in Central Uganda

• Provide English-Luganda translations during extended semi-structured interviews with NGO officials, beneficiaries of the projects, political leaders, opinion leaders and religious leaders

• Identify people to be interviewed and schedule appointments

• Translation and transcription: field ethnography and Luganda Press

• Manage project funds