Lyn Ossome | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kenya |
| Occupation | Senior Research Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Studies |
| Notable works | Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence |
Marilyn ('Lyn') Ossome is an academic,specialising in feminist political theory and feminist political economics. She is currently Senior Research Associate of at the University of Johannesburg and a member of the advisory board for the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, [1] amongst other accolades. She is an editorial board member of Agrarian South:Journal of Political Economy, [2] and in 2021,she co-edited the volume Labour Questions in the Global South. [3] She serves on the executive committee for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] She is the author of Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence. [5]
Lyn Ossome was born and raised in Kenya. [6] She holds a PhD in Political Studies from University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg. [7] From 2016 to 2021 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research,at Makerere University in Uganda. [7] She describes her academic approach as 'a kind of activist-scholarship'. [6]
Ossome's research focuses particularly on gendered labour,queer feminist history and gendered violence,as well as agrarian and land studies. [8] Her work on feminism includes articles on Arab refugee women, [9] Kenyan media and anti-rape discourse, [10] and agrarian movements in Africa. [11]
Her 2018 book Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence examined 'the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya'. [12] In 2021,she co-edited the volume Labour Questions in the Global South. [3]
She is an editorial board member of Agrarian South:Journal of Political Economy, [2] and serves on the advisory board of Feminist Africa. [13]
In 2016,Ossome was a visiting scholar at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. [14] She was also Visiting Presidential Professor in Women's,Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University from 2016-17. [15]
Ossome serves on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), [16] and the executive committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4]
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