New PhD student at CAS

​Lily Rice will join the Centre of African Studies as a new PhD fellow starting 1 April 2019 in a joint agreement with the University of East Anglia, School of International Development

Lily Rice’s PhD-project is entitled: “Religion and its discontents; re-drawing the boundaries and tracing the roots of secular humanism in Uganda”.

Through ethnographic fieldwork, she will be studying the secular humanist activist movement, which is challenging the influence and domination of mainstream religion in Uganda. She will also develop understandings of the origins of the concepts of non-religion, atheism and agnosticism in Africa, through archival research and studying the view of those who have resisted and questioned mainstream religions - particularly Christianity.

Lily Rice holds an MA in the Arts of Africa, the Americas and Oceania from the University of East Anglia, and a BA from the University of Cambridge.