Staff profile

Adrian Browne specialises in modern African history with a focus on Uganda. He is writing an environmental, economic, and social history of the lakes of the Uganda-Congo borderlands in the twentieth century, based on his ESRC-funded doctoral thesis. A second strand of his research concerns the intellectual and political history of Africa’s Cold War at home and abroad, with a focus on Uganda's revolutionary left.

Adrian holds an MA in Social and Economic History (Research Methods) from Durham University, an MSc in African Studies from Oxford University, and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Leeds.

Before undertaking postgraduate study at Durham, he worked as a journalist and researcher focusing on energy and infrastructure in Africa, and has continued to publish on these topics.

Edited Journal

• Leonardi, Cherry & Browne, Adrian J. (2018). Valuing Land in Eastern Africa. Critical African Studies, 10 (1).

Journal Article

• Leonardi, Cherry & Browne, Adrian J. (2018). Introduction: valuing land in Eastern Africa. Critical African Studies 10(1): 1-13.
• Browne, Adrian J. (2018). The Alur-ization of Aidan Southall – Contested Ethnonymic Traditions in North-Western Uganda. History in Africa 45: 221-244.
• Anderson, David M. & Browne, Adrian J. (2011). The politics of oil in eastern Africa. Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(2): 369-410.

Report

• Browne, Adrian J. (2015). LAPSSET: The history and politics of an eastern African megaproject. Rift Valley Institute.