Associate Professor of History

Congratulations to Patrick Otim, who has been awarded a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his book project entitled “Caught in Between: The History of Everyday Life in Northern Uganda, 1950-2015.” Patrick will travel to his home village in Uganda to study documentary and oral sources to to tell the story of non-combatants in the Ugandan civil war. His work will examine events beginning in the 1950s—almost three decades before the Ugandan civil war, to deepen understanding of not only the people and events in the region but also how “independence” operated differently in Northern Uganda—and end in 2015, a decade after all the displaced people had been resettled.

NEH Fellowships are highly competitive, and only 8% of proposals were recommended for funding in this cycle. Congratulations to Patrick on this amazing recognition of the importance of his work!