Birth date: June 16, 1974 Nationality: Ugandan Gender: Female Marital Status: Married with 3 children
Contacts:
1.
Room A7, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, P. O. Box 16022, Wandegeya – Uganda.
2.
Room 113, Law, Gender & Sexuality Research Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, P. O. Box 7062, Kampala.
Email: snyanzi@law.mak.ac.ug
or snyanzi@yahoo.com
. Cell phone: (+256)775301767
EDUCATION
1.
PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, April 2009 .
2.
MA Development Studies and Public Finance, Nkumba University, Uganda, June 2003.
3.
MSc. Medical Anthropology, University College London, University of London, September 2000.
4.
BA Mass Communication and Literature, Makerere University – Kampala, Uganda, January 1997.
5.
PGDip. Project Planning and Management, Management & Business Studies Institute, Kampala – Uganda, August 2001.
6.
Cadre Certificate, Uganda School of Political and Military Education, Kyankwanzi, 1993.
7.
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Gayaza High School, 1993.
8.
Uganda Certificate of Education, Gayaza High School, 1991.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow: Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. January 2011 to the present.
Study Title: Ethnographic inquiry into the politicization of the ‘sin of Sodom and Gomorrah’ in Uganda.
Duties: Design concept papers, develop research proposals, and seek for research funds.
Manage and conduct data collection, data processing, data analysis, writing up and presentation of research.
Participate in the MISR seminars, workshops, and other programmes.
Researcher: Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC), Faculty of Law, Makerere University. March 2011 to February 2012.
Study Title: Examining the vulnerability and resilience of young (refugee & internally displaced) women to HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
Duties: Research design, conceptualization and revision of the research proposal.
Recruitment, selection, training, supervision, guidance and management of research team.
Manage and conduct data collection, data processing, data analysis, writing up and presentation.
Senior Researcher: Law, Gender & Sexuality Research Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University . January 2010 to the present.
Study Title: Sexual citizenship, health and human rights of sexual minorities in Uganda – establishing an evidence base.
Duties: Design and manage research proposals for submission to research funders.
Manage and conduct data collection, data processing, data analysis, writing up and presentation.
Participate in the Faculty of Law’s research, training and capacity building activities, as required.
Research Assistant: Law, Gender & Sexuality Research Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University . February to December 2009.
Duties: Assist on a book-writing project; A reader on African sexualities edited by Prof. Sylvia Tamale.
Doctoral research student: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. October 2003 – March 2008 (including two pregnancies).
1.
Negotiating sexual scripts for meaningful reproductive health: an ethnography of youths in The Gambia; supervised by Dr.
Robert Pool
Duties: Design ethnographic research.
Prepare grant applications and seek funds for fieldwork.
Apply for institutional ethical approval, and local research permits.
Develop, pilot and refine instruments.
Recruit, train, manage and supervise research team.
Introduce study to communities, seek local administration’s permission, obtain informed consent.
Data collection using ethnographic participant observation, individual interviews, focus group discussions, participatory rapid appraisals, policy review, literature review.
Data processing: verbatim transcription, translation in English, entry into computer, and back-up.
Data analysis using Atlas.ti, and writing up of thesis.

Anthropologist: Medical Research Council Laboratories/ Bill and Melinda Gates Malaria Programme/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, P. O. Box 273, Banjul – The Gambia [Farafenni field-station] November 2002 to October 2003.
1.
An investigation of the economic and socio-economic determinants of the demand for malaria treatment and prevention.
Duties: Day-to-day project management including administration, accounts and coordination of field, and office activities.
Management and training of field assistants, driver, data entry clerks, and other junior staff.
Develop and maintain excellent relationships with study villages and the local population.
Assist in the development of research instruments, protocols, questionnaires, and focus group discussion schedules.
Organise and participate in regular project meetings.
Contribute to writing of scientific articles.
Keep abreast of relevant scientific literature.
Develop and maintain regular contact with project principal investigators.
2.
The role of traditional birth attendants in providing healthcare in rural Gambia.
Duties: Develop research instruments.
Supervise piloting of instruments.
Train para-medical staff in anthropological research methods: ethnographic participant observation, focus group discussions, participatory rapid appraisals (PRA).
Supervise sensitization and recruitment of study participants.
Supervise data collection, data entry and processing.
Analysis of qualitative data.
Take the lead role in writing of scientific articles.
Social Science Research Associate: Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute, P. O. Box 49, Entebbe – Uganda
[Masaka field-station] September 2000 – September 2002.
Duties: Contribute to the design of new studies using mixed quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Conduct systematic literature reviews to inform particular studies.
Prepare applications for institutional ethical review of proposed research.
Develop, pilot and refine instruments.
Conduct pilot studies and sampling of participants.
Mobilise and recruit study participants, obtain informed consent, take participant information.
Manage fieldwork: data collection using focus group discussions, individual interviews, questionnaires, role plays.
Manage and participate in data processing and data entry into computer.
Set up and maintain databases for specific research studies.
Data analysis using Atlas.ti, EPI Info and MS Excel.
Contribute to and manage writing of research reports, scientific papers and conference presentations.
Feedback of research results to key stake-holders.
Social Science Research Assistant: Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute, P. O. Box 49, Entebbe – Uganda
[Masaka field-station] June 1997 – September 2000.
Duties: Synthesise findings from systematic literature reviews.
Moderate focus group discussions, and participatory rapid appraisal sessions.
Conduct individual interviews.
Administer survey questionnaires along with survey research team.
Qualitative and quantitative data entry into Fox Pro, Epi Info, SPSS, MS Access, MS Word.
Verbatim transcription and translation into English of interviews, group discussions and meetings.
Coding and verification of survey questionnaire entries.
Coding textual data using Atlas.ti.
Data entry clerk: Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute, P. O. Box 49, Entebbe – Uganda [Masaka fieldstation] January 1997 – June 1997.
Duties: Key research transcripts into MS Word and Atlas.ti.
Enter coded questionnaires into database files.
Verbatim transcription of interviews and focus group discussions.
Translation of research transcripts from Luganda into English.
Enumerator: Uganda Population and Housing Census, The Government of the Republic of Uganda, 1991.
Duties: Administer census survey to several households in a rural village.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Lecturer - East African School on Law, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS at the Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC),
Faculty of Law, Makerere University Kampala; 2009, 2010.
Teaching assistant – Creative writing, Adult Literacy Scheme, Vacation school, 1994, 1997.
English language teacher – senior 3 and senior 4, Standard Academy – Mpererwe 1994 – 1996.
English language teacher – senior 1 and senior 4, Masaka Senior Secondary School, 1993.
PEER-REVEIWED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
1.
Nyanzi S . (2013) ‘Dismantling reified African culture through localized homosexualities in Uganda’, Culture, Health and
Sexuality, volume 15, (DOI:10.1080/13691058.2013.798684).
2.
Nyanzi S . (2011) ‘Ambivalence surrounding elderly widows’ sexuality in urban Uganda’, Ageing International, 36(3): 378-
400.
3.
Waiswa P., Nyanzi S ., Namusoko-Kalungi S., Peterson S., Tomson G., Pariyo G.W. (2010) ‘"I never thought that this baby would live; I thought it would die any time": perceptions and care for preterm babies in eastern Uganda’, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 15(10): 1140-1147.
4.
Nyanzi S . (2009) ‘Widowed Mama-Grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda’,
Gender and Development, 17(3): 467-479.
5.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi-Wakholi B., Kalina B. (2009) ‘Male promiscuity: the negotiation of masculinities by motorbike taxi-riders in Masaka, Uganda’, Men and Masculinities, 12(1): 73-89.
6.
Nyanzi S ., Emodu-Walakira M., Serwaniko W. (2009) ‘The widow, the will, and widow-inheritance in Kampala: revisiting victimization arguments’, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 43(1): 12-33.
7.
Nyanzi S ., Kayizzi V., Nassimbwa J., Kabanda S. (2008) ‘"African sex is dangerous!" Renegotiating ‘ritual sex’ in contemporary Masaka district’, Africa, 78(4): 518-538.
=>=>=> Reprinted in Sylvia Tamale (Ed.) African sexualities: A reader (2011).
Oxford: Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press.
8.
Nyanzi S ., Manneh H., Walraven G. (2007) ‘Traditional birth attendants in rural Gambia: beyond health to social cohesion’,
African Journal of Reproductive Health, 11(1): 43-56.
9.
Nyanzi S ., Bah O., Joof S., Walraven G. (2007) ‘Ethnography and PRA among Gambian traditional birth attendants: a methods discussion’, Qualitative Research, 7(3): 317-326.
10.
Nyanzi S . (2006) ‘From minuscule biomedical models to sexuality’s depths’, The Lancet, 368(9550): 1851-1852.
=>=>=> Reprinted in Sylvia Tamale (Ed.) African sexualities: A reader (2011).
Oxford: Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press.
11.
Nyanzi S . (2006) ‘“Better a dead child than a dry womb!” Reproduction and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Gender and
Behaviour 4(1): 610-624.
12.
Nyanzi S ., Rosenberg-Jallow O., Bah O., Nyanzi S. (2005) ‘ Bumsters, big black organs and old white gold: embodied racial myths in sexual relationships of Gambian beach boys’, Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(6): 557-569.
13.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi B., Kalina B. (2005) ‘“Abortion? That’s for women!” Narratives and experiences of commercial motorbike riders in south western Uganda’, African Journal of Reproductive Health 9(1): 142-161.
14.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi B., Kalina B. (2005) ‘Contemporary myths, sexuality misconceptions, information sources and risk perceptions of bodaboda men in southwest Uganda’, Sex Roles – A Journal of Research 52(1-2): 111-119.
15.
Nyanzi B., Nyanzi S ., Wolff B., Whitworth J. (2005) ‘Money, men and markets: economic and sexual empowerment of market women in southwestern Uganda’, Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(1): 13-26.
16.
Gysels M., Pool R., Nyanzi S . (2005) ‘The adventures of the Randy Professor and Angela the Sugar Mummy: sex in fictional series in Ugandan popular magazines’, AIDS Care 17(8): 967-977.
17.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi B., Kalina B., Pool R. (2004) ‘Mobility, sexual networks and exchange dynamics of Bodaboda men in south western Uganda’, Culture, Health and Sexuality 2004, 6(3): 239-254.
=>=>=> Reprinted in Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton (Eds.) Culture, Society and Sexuality: A reader (2007).
London:
University College of London Press.
18.
Nyanzi S . (2003) ‘The role of faith healing in an HIV high-risk area: a case study of Balokole churches in Masaka district,
Uganda’ Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Bulletin, Special Issue (2-4): 89-91.
19.
Nyanzi S ., Pool R., Kinsman J. (2001) ‘Negotiation of sexual relationships among school-going adolescents’, AIDS Care
13(1): 83-98.

20.
Pool R., Nyanzi S ., Whitworth J. (2001) ‘Attitudes to voluntary counseling and testing for HIV among pregnant women in rural south west Uganda’, AIDS Care 13(5): 605-615.
21.
Pool R., Nyanzi S ., Whitworth J. (2001) ‘Breast feeding practices and attitudes relevant to the vertical transmission of HIV in rural south-west Uganda’, Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 21(2):119-125.
22.
Green G., Pool R., Harrison S., Hart G.J., Wilkinson J., Nyanzi S ., Whitworth J. (2001) ‘Female control of sexuality: illusion or reality? Use of vaginal products in south western Uganda’, Social Science and Medicine 52(4):585-598.
23.
Kinsman J., Nyanzi S ., Pool R. (2000) ‘Socializing influences and the value of sex: the experience of schoolgirls in rural
Masaka, Uganda’, Culture, Health and Sexuality 2(2):151-166.
24.
Pool R., Hart G., Green G., Harrison S., Nyanzi S., Whitworth J. (2000) ‘Men’s attitudes to condoms and female controlled means of protection against HIV and STDs in south-western Uganda’, Culture, Health and Sexuality 2(2):197-212.
25.
Hart G.J., Pool R., Green G., Harrison S., Nyanzi S ., Whitworth J.A. (1999) ‘Women’s attitudes to condoms and femalecontrolled means of protection against HIV and STDs in south western Uganda’, AIDS Care 11(6): 83-98.
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NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
1.
Nyanzi S ., Emodu-Walakira M. (2008) ‘Passive victims or active agents? Experiences of widow inheritance in Uganda’,
Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, Number 1, pp 7-9.
2.
Nyanzi S ., Bah O. (2008) ‘Health policy, faith healing and HIV/AIDS in Africa: case study based on ethnographic research in
The Gambia’, CODESRIA Research and Policy Briefs, No. 9/2008 .
3.
Nyanzi S . (2006) ‘Reflection on “Barren” but pleasurable sexualities in Africa’, Sexuality in Africa Magazine, 3(2): 11-12.
4.
Nyanzi S . (2004) ‘Porno, peers and pleasure: pertinent sources of sexuality education for adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa’,
Sexuality in Africa Magazine 1(2): 13-14.
5.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi-Wakholi B. (2004) ‘“It’s more than cash!” Debunking myths about ‘sugar-daddy’ relationships in Africa’,
Sexual Health Exchange 3-4: 8-9.
6.
Nyanzi S . (2004) ‘Widowhood, land wrangles and social stigma in the face of HIV/AIDS in south-western Uganda’,
Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa Newsletter 1(1): 18-25.
7.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi B., Kalina B., Nabaggala J. (2003) ‘Health and development needs of urban market women: the case of
Masaka district – Uganda’, Urban Health and Development Bulletin 16(3): 79-86.
8.
Pool R., Nyanzi S ., Whitworth J. (2003) ‘Curbing mother to child transmission: testing pregnant women for HIV’, 0ID21
Health: Communicating development research , May 19, 2003.
9.
Nyanzi S ., Nyanzi B. (2003) ‘Urban husbands with rural wives: migration, employment and sexual health in a high HIV risk area in Uganda’, Urban Health and Development Bulletin 6(1&2): 79-86.
MONOGRAPHS
1.
Nyanzi S . (2013) ‘Alienating Citizens: Exploring the Poetics and Polemics of Foreign Influence over Homosexualities in
Uganda’, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Working Paper No. 14, Kampala: MISR .
2.
Nyanzi S . (2012) ‘Refashioning Sexual Safety Away From Home: Contextual and Structural Factors Contributing to Young
Refugee Women’s Vulnerability and Resilience to HIV/AIDS in Uganda’, Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC)
Working Paper No. 38, Kampala: HURIPEC .
3.
Jassey K., Nyanzi S . (2007) ‘How to be a ‘proper’ woman in the time of AIDS’, Current African Issues, March 2007,
Number Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet .
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1.
Nyanzi S . (2013) ‘Rhetorical analysis of President Jammeh’s threats to behead homosexuals in The Gambia’, In Marc
Epprecht and Sybille N. Nyeck (Eds.), Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship, Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s
University Press.
2.
Nyanzi S . (2012) ‘President Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS healing saga in The Gambia’, In Segun Ige and Tim Quinlan (Eds.),
African Responses to HIV/AIDS: Between Speech and Action, Durban: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, Pp 124-152.

3.
Nyanzi S . (2011) ‘Unpacking the [Govern]mentality of African sexualities’, In Sylvia Tamale (Ed.) African Sexualities: A reader, Oxford, Nairobi, Dakar and Cape Town: Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press, Pp 477-501.
4.
Nyanzi S ., Emodu-Walakira M., Serwaniko W. (2011) ‘"Sleeping with my dead husband’s brother!" Gendered widowhood and widow-inheritance in Kampala, Uganda’, In Jennifer Klot & Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Eds.) The Fourth Wave: Violence,
Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21 st Century, Paris & New York: UNESCO & SSRC, Pp 295-317.
5.
Nyanzi S . (2010) ‘Ghettoisation, migration or sexual connection? Negotiating survival among male Gambian youths’, In
Sylvia Chant (Ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy, Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar Publishing Limited, Pp 207-214.
6.
Nyanzi S ., Bah O. (2010) ‘Rice, rams and remittances: Bumsters and female tourists in The Gambia’, In Felicity Thomas,
Mary Haour-Knipe, Peter Aggleton (Eds.) Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS, London: Routledge, Pp 108-120.
7.
Nyanzi S ., (2009) ‘Empowering traditional birth attendants in The Gambia: a local strategy to redress issues of access, equity and sustainability’, In Martyn Sama & Vinh-Kin Nguyen (Eds.) Governing health systems in Africa, Dakar: CODESRIA, Pp
225-236.
8.
Nyanzi S ., (2006) ‘Men and their children’, In Adam Jones (Ed) Men of the Global South: A reader, London: Zed Books, Pp
34-37.
9.
Nyanzi S ., (2006) ‘Widow inheritance’ In Adam Jones (Ed) Men of the Global South: A reader, London: Zed Books, Pp 60-
64.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1.
Nyanzi S., East meets west, in The Untamed Africa and other short stories and poems. Published by Papwec Solutions Ltd.,
September 2003, London – United Kingdom.
2.
Nyanzi S., Healing of HIV/AIDS among Balokole churches in Masaka district. Department of Anthropology, University
College London – University of London, 2001.
3.
Nyanzi S., The sad plight of womanhood. The Sunday Vision Newspaper, pg 34, March 2001.
4.
Nyanzi S., Dying on this diet. The Sunday Vision Newspaper, pg 26, April 1, 2001.
5.
Nyanzi S., My University Papers are dung! The Crusader Newspaper, 2 nd Year, no 93, January 07 - 09,1997.
6.
Nyanzi S., I bribed.
Nature’s Echoes, The International Library of Poetry, Library of Congress, 2000,ISBN-1-58235-564-9.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1.
Nyanzi S., Imagining Ugandan Kuchus: Exploring Non-Heteronormative Possibilities in the Ugandan Nation, II Annual
Conference of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, University of Sussex, 17 th -19 th May 2013.
2.
Nyanzi S., Breaking the Silence Around the Rape of Men During Flight from Conflict, First South-South Institute on Sexual
Violence Against Men and Boys in Conflict and Displacement, Kampala, 8 th – 12 th April 2013.
3.
Nyanzi S., How Sexual Minorities Can Strategically Engage with the Equal Opportunities Commission, Human Rights and
Awareness and Promotion Forum’s Stakeholders’ Meeting, Kampala, 25 th April 2013.
4.
Nyanzi S., Sexual and Gender Rights, V Annual Sexual and Gender-Based Violence/ Persecution Awareness Week,
Kampala, 4 th – 8 th March 2013.
5.
Nyanzi S., The Mental Health and Wellbeing of LGBTI in Contemporary Uganda, XXX International Congress of
Psychologists, Cape Town, 21 st – 26 th July 2012.
6.
Nyanzi S., Double Death by HIV and Homophobia among MSM Communities in Kampala, Uganda, XIX International
AIDS Conference, Washington DC, 22 nd – 27 th July 2012.
7.
Nyanzi S., Examining Diversities and Intersections of Homosexual Communities in Contemporary Uganda, XIX
International AIDS Conference, Washington DC, 22 nd – 27 th July 2012.
8.
Nyanzi S., Methodological Challenges of Studying Homosexualities in Uganda
Launch of the 4 th African Humanities
Program, University of Ghana – Legon, 27 th – 29 th June 2012.

9.
Nyanzi S., Politicising ‘the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah’ in Uganda: Project Statement, Launch of the 4 th African
Humanities Program, Makerere University Kampala, 23 rd – 25 th May 2012.
10.
Nyanzi S., Dismantling Reified African Culture Through Localised Homosexualities: Ethnography from Uganda
Women’s and Gender Studies Department Seminar, University of the Western Cape, 4 th April 2012.
11.
Nyanzi S., Swimming Against the Tide: The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Uganda after the Advent of the Anti-
Homosexuality Bill, Traditions II: Everyday Lives of African Men, Africa Hall – UNECA, Addis Ababa; 28 th -30 th
November 2011.
12.
Nyanzi S., Christian Hatred vs Christian Love of Homosexuals: Contrasting the Two Priests who Presided over David Kato’s
Funeral, Sexuality, AIDS and Religion: Transnational Dynamics in Africa’ International Conference; Institute of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford; 28 th – 30 th September 2011.
13.
Nyanzi S., Identity: Meaning, Function, and Freedom, 3 rd Regional Changing Faces, Changing Spaces Conference: UHAI –
Nairobi; May 2011.
14.
Nyanzi S., Teko P., Resilience and vulnerabilities towards HIV/AIDS among young refugee and internally displaced women in Uganda, Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Methodological Workshop, Comparative
Research Network; Abidjan – Ivory Coast; October 2010.
15.
Nyanzi S., Contesting diverse widow inheritance customs in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, XVIII International AIDS
Conference, Vienna – Austria; July 2010. (Presentation no. MOAD0104).
16.
Nyanzi S., Transformations in widow inheritance practices: The case of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, International
Workshop on Gender Equality and Progress in Societies; OECD and UNESCO, Paris – France; March 2010.
17.
Nyanzi S., Reclaiming the sexual rights of adolescents: The need for a paradigm shift, 4 th Africa Conference on Sexual
Health and Rights, Addis Ababa – Ethiopia; February 2010.
18.
Nyanzi S., President Jammeh’s threats to behead homosexuals: Examining idioms of nationalism, good Muslim practice and proper gender roles in public rhetoric, IRN Africa Conference: Genders and sexualities in Africa: Opportunities and challenges in the 21 st century, Empire State College, Syracuse – New York; October 2009.
19.
Nyanzi S., Embodying racial myths in sexual relationships of Gambian beach boys, Sexuality and the Development Industry
Workshop, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton – Sussex; 3-5 April 2008.
20.
Nyanzi S., Bah O., Who protects the subjects? The politics of President Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS healing in The Gambia, XVII
International AIDS Conference, Mexico City – Mexico; August 2008. (Abstract no. ThPe1039)
21.
Nyanzi S., Bah O., Flight from denial to publicity: the case of Santa Yalla Support Society in The Gambia, XVII International
AIDS Conference, Mexico City – Mexico; August 2008. (Abstract no. ThPe0740)
22.
Nyanzi S., ‘I can’t marry or have children!’ Narratives of PLWHAs in The Gambia, XVI International AIDS Conference,
Toronto – Canada; August 2006.
23.
Nyanzi S., The thrills and threats of studying sexuality in an era of HIV/AIDS: experiences of an anthropologist in the
Gambia, Research Degree Forum, Degree Students Common-room, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine –
London, United Kingdom: July 2006.
24.
Nyanzi S., Consuming the Qur’an: negotiating meaning of sexuality, health and identity among Gambian youths, Medical
Anthropology Seminar Series – Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – London, United
Kingdom: February 2006.
25.
Nyanzi S., Bah O., Joof S., Religion, tradition and patient welfare and rights: experiences from The Gambia, CODESRIA-
SIDA Satellite, XIV International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa – Abuja, Nigeria: December 2005.
26.
Nyanzi S., Women, ritual sex and social policy in contemporary Buganda: marginalized victims or active players? African
Gender Institute, University of Cape Town: May 2005.
27.
Nyanzi S., Bah O., Joof S., The role of faith healing as alternative medicine for HIV/AIDS: a case study of Marabouts in a predominantly Islamic community, The Gambia, CODESRIA Initiative on social sciences & HIV/AIDS: Review conference
& policy dialogue –Lilongwe, Malawi: March 2005.

28.
Nyanzi S., ‘Better a dead child than a dry womb!’ Reproduction and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, ASA-UK Biennial
Conference, Goldsmith College – London, United Kingdom; September 2004.
29.
Nyanzi S., Bah O., Rosenberg-Jallow O., Youths’ perceptions of sexuality and HIV vulnerability in The Gambia, XVth
International AIDS Conference, Bangkok – Thailand; July 2004.
30.
Nyanzi S., Bumsters, big black organs and old white gold: embodied racial myths in the sexual relationships of Gambian beach boys, Center for the Study of AIDS (CSA) University of Pretoria, South Africa; June 2004.
31.
Nyanzi S., Empowering traditional birth attendants in The Gambia: a local strategy to redress issues of access, equity and sustainability? Institute on Health, Society and Politics in Africa; CODESRIA Dakar – Senegal; March 2004.
32.
Nyanzi S., Renegotiating sexuality, rewriting social scripts for meaningful reproductive health: narratives of youths in The
Gambia, Understanding exclusion, creating value: African youth in a global age – Youth, HIV/AIDS and social transformation. Research planning and methodology workshop (CODESRIA/SSRC/ACLS/NRF), October 15 – 20, 2003,
Dakar – Senegal.
33.
Nyanzi B., Nyanzi S., Kalina B., Pool R., Whitworth J., Culture, myths, misconceptions about HIV/AIDS among bodaboda men in Uganda (ref. no 133505), XIII th International Conference on STD/AIDS in Africa 2003, Nairobi – Kenya.
34.
Kinsman J., Nyanzi S., Pool R., The role of money and modernity in sexual relations among Ugandan secondary school pupils, CERES Summer School: Faces of poverty, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, June 2003.
35.
Nyanzi S., The role of faith healing in a high HIV risk area: a case study of Balokole churches in Masaka district, Uganda,
Social Sciences and HIV/AIDS – Planning and methodological workshop, Council for the development of Social Science
Research in Africa (CODESRIA), January 16 – 18, 2003, Dakar – Senegal.
36.
Nyanzi S., Pregnant rural women’s attitudes to VCT in south western Uganda, Third Counseling Conference, Kenya
Association of Professional Counsellors, September 3 – 5, 2002, Nairobi –Kenya.
37.
Nyanzi B., Nyanzi S., Wolff B., Whitworth J.A.G., Money, men and markets: Limitations to sexual-health empowerment of market women in south-western Uganda, XIV International AIDS Conference, July 7-12, 2002, Barcelona – Spain. (Abstract number: MoOrE1112).
38.
Nyanzi S., Nyanzi B., Lay interpretations of HIV/AIDS among Balokole in rural Uganda, XIV International AIDS
Conference, July 7-12, 2002, Barcelona – Spain. (Abstract number: TuPeE5108).
39.
Nyanzi S., Nyanzi B., Miracle healing churches: coping mechanism in a high HIV risk area, XIV International AIDS
Conference, July 7-12, 2002, Barcelona – Spain. (Abstract number: E10140).
40.
Nyanzi S., Nyanzi B., Mafigiri D., Wolff B., Whitworth JAG., Qualitative exploration into the sexual behaviour of prisoners in Masaka district, International Conference on health conditions in African prisons, 26-30 November, 2001, Kampala –
Uganda.
41.
Gysels M., Pool R., Nyanzi S., Attitudes to voluntary counseling and testing for HIV among pregnant women and maternity staff in rural south west Uganda, XIII International AIDS Conference, 9-14 July 2000, Durban South Africa. (Abstract no.
TuPpB1159).
42.
Pool R., Kinsman J., Nyanzi S., Adolescent sexual behaviour and attitudes in south western Uganda, IX th International
Conference on STD/AIDS in Africa 1997, Abidjan – Ivory Coast.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
1.
African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellow for 2013
2.
American Council of Learned Societies’ (ACLS) African Humanities Post Doctoral Fellowship (AHP): Research grant (worth
US$ 18,000) for ethnographic inquiry into the Politicization of the ‘sin of Sodom and Gomorrah’ in Uganda .
(July 2011 –
June 2012).
3.
UHAI – The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative’s 2011 Peer Grant: Tujenge Grant (worth US$ 10,000) for ethnographic multi-method research into the Legacy of David Kato – a human rights’ defender for sexual minorities in
Uganda (July 2011 – June 2012.)
4.
Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Comparative Research Network: Research grant
(worth US$ 25,000) for comparative research on factors that impact young refugee women and young internally displaced women’s sexual and reproductive health in Uganda (October 2010 – September 2012).
5.
Swedish International and Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)’s International Grant for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression: Research grant (worth US$ 111,000) on Sexual citizenship, health and human rights of sexual minorities in
Uganda – establishing an evidence base (August 2010 – March 2012).
6.
Ford Foundation’s Gender and HIV/AIDS Research Fellowship through the Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC),
Faculty of Law, Makerere University: Research grant (worth US$ 13,800) for research on Contextual and Structural Factors that affect young refugee and internally displaced women’s vulnerabilities and resilience to HIV/AIDS (January 2010 –
December 2011).
7.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Division for Gender Equality: Research Grant
(US$ 10,000) for Exploring transformations in widow inheritance in East Africa: multi-country analyses from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania (November 2009 – August 2010).
8.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC): Fellowship (worth US$ 10,000) on HIV/AIDS and Public Health Policy Research in Africa (September 2006 – June 2007).
9.
African Gender Institute (AGI): Writing Associateship at the University of Cape Town – South Africa. (April – June 2005).
10.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Initiative on the Social Sciences and
HIV/AIDS: Towards a political economy of patient welfare and rights. (October 2003 – March 2006).
11.
International AIDS Society: International AIDS Conferences in Bangkok – Thailand (June 2004), Toronto – Canada (July
2006), Mexico City – Mexico (August 2008).
12.
Professional Enhancement Fund (Ford Foundation -International Fellowship Programme): Summer Institute Culture, Society and Sexuality – Universiteit van Amsterdam (June – August 2004).
13.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA): Laureate of the Institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa – Governing the African health system; Dakar – Senegal. (March 2004).
14.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/ Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)/
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/ South African National Research Foundation (NRF): Research and training fellowship (worth US$ 10,000) on ‘Understanding exclusion, creating value: African youth in a global age – Youth,
HIV/AIDS and social transformation’ (October 2003 – July 2004).
15.
Ford Foundation (USA) – International Fellowship Programme/ Inter-University Council of East Africa: Training for a PhD in Medical Anthropology at the University of London (September 2003 – August 2007).
16.
Organisation for Social Science Research in East and Southern Africa (OSSREA): Training workshop in social science research methodology at Addis Ababa University (October 2002).
17.
Medical Research Council (UK) Programme on AIDS in Uganda/ Uganda Virus Research Institute: Training for a Master of
Science degree in Medical Anthropology at the University of London (October 1999 – September 2000).
18.
Government of the Republic of Uganda: Training for a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Literature at Makerere
University – Kampala. (September 1993 – June 1997).