Edgar Taylor

Edgar C. Taylor is a lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University. His research examines urban protest, racial politics and institutional life in twentieth-century Uganda. 

At Kellogg, Taylor will work on his book project “Infrastructures of Exclusion: Authority and Everyday Politics in Urban Uganda, 1959-1972,” about racial populism and urban governance in the years preceding the Ugandan Asian expulsion of 1972. 

He has published articles in Africa, Journal of Eastern African Studies, History in Africa, History of Photography, and Comparative Studies in Society and History on topics including the affective and legal politics of decolonization and racialized citizenship, as well as the dynamics of public heritage in Uganda. 

Taylor recently co-edited a book for James Currey, Decolonising State & Society in Uganda: The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life. A forthcoming co-edited article in a special issue with History and Anthropology is titled “Expulsions: Knowledge, Memory and Materiality in Africa.” 

He holds a PhD in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan and an MA in History from Makerere University. Before joining Makerere, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand.