{"id":3041,"date":"2024-03-08T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:38:14","slug":"patrick-otim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/2024\/03\/08\/patrick-otim\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Otim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Associate Professor of History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Patrick Otim, who has been awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/research\/fellowships\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/research\/fellowships\">research fellowship<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\"><strong>National Endowment for the Humanities<\/strong><\/a> for his book project entitled &#8220;Caught in Between: The History of Everyday Life in Northern Uganda, 1950-2015.&#8221;  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\u2014almost three decades before the Ugandan civil war, to deepen understanding of not only the people and events in the region but also how \u201cindependence\u201d operated differently in Northern Uganda\u2014and end in 2015, a decade after all the displaced people had been resettled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/research\/fellowships\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/research\/fellowships\">NEH Fellowships<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1279\" height=\"1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2.webp\" alt=\"Formal headshot of Associate Professor Patrick Otim\" class=\"wp-image-2849\" style=\"width:257px;height:auto\" title=\"Aleks Diamond-Stanic surrounded by students in his research lab.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2.webp 1279w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2-600x900.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2-419x628.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/03\/Patrick-Otim-2-1024x1536.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Assoc. Prof. Patrick Otim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2.webp\" alt=\"Seal of the National Endowment for the Humanities\" class=\"wp-image-2825\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1370967741935485;width:207px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2.webp 852w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2-301x300.webp 301w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2-768x766.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2024\/02\/NEH-logo2-629x628.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><em>Award No. FEL-294163-24, $60,000. <\/em> <em>Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of History Congratulations to Patrick Otim, who has been awarded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":2849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["patrick-w-otim"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-grants","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}