Doctoral dissertations on South(ern) Sudan per year since 1927

Of the 202 completed dissertations listed below, 94 (or about half) were defended during the years between 2011 and 2019. 108 were produced between 1927 and 2010. These numbers are no doubt partly explained by the growing annual production of PhD theses, partly by wars in South(ern) Sudan that limited access to the region, and partly by the fact that it is easier to locate dissertations focused on South(ern) Sudan during the CPA-period and after independence. I've generally not included dissertations that focus on what is today Sudan. This includes some really excellent ones, like Alden Young's Accounting for Decolonization: The Origins of the Sudanese Economy, 1945-1964 (Phd dissertation, Princeton University, 2013), which hold much material and a great deal of interest for scholars of South Sudan. Admittedly, I've not included Young's dissertation mostly so that I can list it here (at the top), but you understand my point: there are many dissertations that concern Sudan (between 1820 and 2011, say), which probably contain chapters on Southern Sudan, which I've missed.

Ashraf K. Abdelhay, The politics of language planning in the Sudan : the case of the Naivasha language policy (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2008)

Lual Acuek Lual Deng, The Abyei Development Project: A Case Study of Cattle Herders in the Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984)

Jonathan Chaim Agensky, Aid, advocacy, and global Christendom : the politics of evangelical humanitarianism in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 2014)

Rehab Abdel Rahman Ahmed, التدخل العلماني في جنوب السودان : أهدافه و آثاره الفكرية : دراسة تاريخية تحليلية (PhD dissertation, Omdurman Islamic University, 2010)

Khidir Haroun Ahmed, The politics of Islam and the alienation of South Sudan, 1945-2005 (PhD dissertation, University of Reading, 2013)

Peter Biar Ajak, Building on Sand: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement Army and State Formation in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2020)

Joshua Otor K. Akol, Refugee migration and repatriation : case-studies of some affected rural communities in Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Manitoba, 2014)

B.A. Job Akuni, Child Trafficking: A Case of South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bradford, 2013)

Nadir M. al-Mahdy, Expaining the process towards political separatism : the two cases of Southern Sudan`s separatist conflicts (PhD dissertation, Miami University, 1998)

T.H. al-Nour, The Sudan Ethiopia boundary: a study in political geography (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 1972)

Elizabeth Hain Andretta, A reconsideration of the basis of group cohesion among the Murle of the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1985)

Jonathan E. Arensen, Aspects of language and society among the Murle of Sudan (PhD dissertation, Oxford University, 1991)

Matthew Byron Arnold, The Collaboration Problematique: managing frontiers of insecurity through state building interventionism (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2008)

Mom Kov Nhial Arou, Regional dévolution in the Southern Sudan : 1972-1981 (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1982)

Ahmed Abdel Aziz Yacoub Azza, Confronting marginality and otherness : knowledge production and the recasting of identity through therapeutic and embodied encounters among internally displaced people from Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2014)

Raphael Koba Badal, British Administration in Southern Sudan, 1900-1956: a study in colonial neglect (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1977)

Naseem Badiey, The State within : the local dynamics of post-conflict reconstruction in Juba, Southern Sudan (2003-2005) (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2010)

Laura Barber, Chinese Foreign Policy in the ‘Going Out’ Era: Confronting Challenges and ‘Adaptive Learning’ in the Case of China-Sudan and South Sudan Relations (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2014)

Richard Barltrop, Help or hindrance? : mediation and relief in Sudan`s civil war, 1983-2004 (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2007)

Diane C. Belanger, Sudan and South Sudan: Economic Development and Ethnopolitical Conflict (PhD dissertation, , 2013)

Ben Katoro Beninyo, Evaluation of the educational policies of the Sudan, 1972-1992 : impact and implications on educational development in the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Leeds, 1996)

Matthew Sterling Benson , Taxation, Local Government and Social Control in Sudan and South Sudan, 1899-1956 (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 2019)

Carol Berger, Southern Sudan`s Red Army : the role of social process and routinised violence in the deployment of underaged soldiers (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2010)

Zachary S. Berman, Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan (PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2017)

Stephanie Beswick, Violence, ethnicity and political consolidation in south Sudan : a history of the Dinka and their relations with their neighbors (PhD dissertation, Michigan State University, 1998)

Rosey Billington, The phonetics and phonology of the Lopit language (PhD dissertation, University of Melbourne, 2017)

Laura Bosco, Untitled (about UN peace operations and the protection of civilians, focus on the UN Mission in South Sudan) (PhD dissertation, American University, in progress)

Bruno Braak, Overcoming Ruptures: Zande identity, governance and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-9) (PhD dissertation, Leiden University, 2020 (?))

Johan Brosché, Masters of War : The Role of Elites in Sudan’s Communal Conflicts (PhD dissertation, Uppsala universitet, 2014)

Elijah M. Brown, The road to peace : the role of the Southern Sudanese church in communal stabilisation and national resolution (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2008)

John Burton, God`s ants: a study of Atuot religion (PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978)

Christina Bützer, The second-class citizens of Sudan ; A study of southern Sudanese in Khartoum ; Sudans Bürger zweiter Klasse ; Eine Studie über Südsudanesen in Khartum (PhD dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 2018)

Jean Carlile Buxton, The religion of a southern Sudan tribe : the Mandari (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1958)

Marybeth Chrostowsky, The Effects of Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: The Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2013)

Robert O. Collins, The Dervish Invasions of the Southern Sudan, 1883-1898 (PhD dissertation, Yale, 1959)

Zoe Cormack, The Making and Remkaing of Gogrial: Landscape, history, and memory in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 2014)

Joshua Craze, Thinking in the Dark: Ethics and Politics on the Sudan-South Sudan Border (PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2014)

Diana Felix da Costa, `This word, it is for Murle, not meant for other people` : the politics of Murle identity, experiences of violence and of the state in Boma, south Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2016)

Gabrielle Daoust, Education and the critique of liberal peacebuilding : the case of South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Sussex, 2018)

Benedetta De Alessi, The war-to-peace transition of the SPLM/A into the SPLM during the implementation of the Sudan ʼs Comprehensive Peace Agreement (PhD dissertation, University of London, SOAS, 2013)

John Garang de Mabior, Identifying, selecting, and implementing rural development strategies for socio-economic development in the Jonglei Projects Area, Southern Region, Sudan (PhD dissertation, Iowa State University, 1981)

Sara De Simone, State-building South Sudan : discourses, practices and actors of a negotiated project ( 1999-2013) ; Construire l`Etat au Sud Soudan : discours, pratiques et acteurs d`un projet negotié ( 1999-2013) (PhD dissertation, Centre de sociologie européenne, 2016)

Lotje Anne de Vries, Facing Frontiers, Everyday practice of state-building in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Wageningen University, 2012)

Danielle Del Vicario, The lives, deaths, and afterlives of John Garang: history-making and politics in Sudan and South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2024)

Francis Mading Deng, Tradition and Modernization: a challenge for law among the Dinka of the Sudan (PhD dissertation, Yale, 1986)

Luka Biong Deng, Confronting civil war : a comparative study of household livelihood strategies in Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Sussex, 2013)

Abraham Matoc Dhal, The Colonial Economy and the Underdevelopment of the Southern Sudan, 1899-1989 (PhD dissertation, University of Khartoum, 1997)

Olav Digernes, Appearance and reality on the southern Sudan: a study in the British administration of the Nuer, 1900-1930 (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, 1978)

Christian Doll, The Post-State State: Sovereignty, Futurity, and Urban Life in Independent South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2019)

Malual Ayom Dor, Conflict Resolution As a Learning Process: The Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army 1983-2005 (PhD dissertation, King`s College London, 2017)

Wal Duany, Neither Palaces nor Prisons: the constitution of order among the Nuer (PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1992)

Julia Aker Duany, Sudanese woman and education : the struggle for equal access and participation (PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1996)

David John Duriesmith, New war, masculinity and patriarchy: the social construction of contemporary armed conflict (PhD dissertation, The University of Melbourne, 2013)

Damazo Dut Majak Kocjok , The northern Bahr al-Ghazal : people, alien encroachment and rule, 1856-1956 (PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990)

Jane Kani Edward, Understanding socio-cultural change: Transformations and future imagining among southern Sudanese women refugees (PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2004)

Mohamed Osman El Sammani, Jonglei Canal - Dynamics of Planned Change in the Twic Area (PhD dissertation, University of Khartoum, 1980)

Khalifa Elmusharaf, Access to maternal healthcare in post-conflict South Sudan. Is the health system designed for the context? (PhD dissertation, National University of Ireland Galway, 2015)

Andrew I. Epstein, Maps of Desire: Refugee Children, Schooling, and Contemporary Dinka Pastoralism in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012)

Heidi Josephine Eschenbacher, Staff perception within an international organization : a comparison of headquarters and field employee views of an educational program during implementation in Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2011)

Edward Evans Evans-Pritchard, The Social Organisation of the Azande of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 1927)

Marilyn H. Fetterman, Drought, Cattle Disease, Colonialism and Lokenbe: A Century of Change Among the Pasturalist Didinga, Eastern Equatoria Province, Sudan (PhD dissertation, Brown University, 1992)

Dereje Feyissa , Ethnic Groups and Conflict. The Case of Anywaa-Nuer Relations in the Gambela Region, Ethiopia (PhD dissertation, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, 2003)

Ole Frahm, `How a state is made` – statebuilding and nationbuilding in South Sudan in the light of its African peers (PhD dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2016)

S.E. Freeman, Quantifying Need: Humanitarian Technology and Mobility in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, in progress)

John Warner Frost, A History Of The Shilluk Of The Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974)

James Alic Garang, The financial sector and inclusive development in Africa : essays on access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises in South Sudan and Kenya (PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014)

Leoma G. Gilley, An autosegmental approach to phonological phenomena in Shilluk (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1988)

Lydia Gitau, An Exploration of Trauma Interventions and Building Peace: The Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (PhD dissertation, University of Sydney, 2016)

Yidong Gong, Assembling Transnational Medicine: Chinese (Barefoot) Doctors in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Duke University, 2019)

P. Wani Gore, Socio-cultural and demographic characteristics of a low fertility population in south-western Sudan : the case of the Azande. (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1981)

Virginia B. Gorsevski, Impacts of conflict on land use and land cover in the Imatong Mountain region of South Sudan and northern Uganda (PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 2012)

Miklos Gosztonyi, Post-Conflict Statebuilding in South Sudan (2005-2013) Institutional Layering, SPLM/A Organizational Structure, and the Historicity of the South Sudanese State (PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 2016)

Katarzyna Grabska, In-flux:(re)negotiations of gender, identity and `home` in post-war Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Sussex, 2010)

Nicole Grandin-Blanc, Le Soudan Nilotique et son administration coloniale Britannique (1898-1956). Éléments d'interprétation socio-historique d'une expérience coloniale (PhD dissertation, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1975)

Richard Gray, The southern Sudan, 1839-1889 (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1957)

Marjolein Catharina Groot, The role of private enterprises in UN initiated peace support processes : a study of mobile phone companies and their contribution, as key type of infrastructural industry in reconstruction, to the post-war reconstruction systems of South Sudan and Cambodia (PhD dissertation, University College Dublin, 2012)

Catherine Hahs Brinkley, Teacher Education in Central Equatoria, South Sudan (Ed.D, Walden University, 2016)

Eisuke Hashimoto, エ・クウォス : 南スーダン、ヌエル社会における予言的出来事と拡張する想像力の民族誌 ; E KUOTH: an ethnography of prophetic events and moral imagination among the Nuer of South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Hitotsubashi University, 2015)

Roger Hill, Migration to Juba: a case study (MA Thesis, Durham University, 1981)

Abannik O. Hino, Eastern Equatoria and the White Nile Trade: the political history of a frontier, 1840-1900 (PhD dissertation, Michigan State University, 1999)

Kjell Hødnebø, Cattle and flies. A study of cattle-keeping in Equatoria Province, the southern Sudan, 1850-1950 (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, 1981)

Paul Washington Howe, Contesting `Famine` : a study of conceptual ambiguities and their implications for response and accountability in Southern Sudan, 1998 (PhD dissertation, University of Sussex, 2004)

Paul Philip Howell, A comparative study of customary law among cattle-owning tribes in the southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1950)

John R. Howell, Political leadership and organization in the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Reading, 1978)

Sharon Elaine Hutchinson, The Nuer in crisis : coping with money, war, and the state (PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1988)

AbdulMunim Mohamed Ali Idris, Regional government as a means of state-building with special reference to the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Exeter, 1991)

Catarina Inverso, From War To Peace As Conflict Goes On: Displacement And State Making During South Sudan’s 2013-2020 Conflict (PhD dissertation, SOAS University of London, 2024)

Leon Carl Jacobson, DhoLuo vowel harmony: a phonetic investigation (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978)

Gabriel G. Jal, The History of the Jikany Nuer before 1820 (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1987)

Catherine Jendia, The Sudanese conflict 1969-1983 : the role of leadership in the resumption of civil conflict between the people of southern Sudan and the government of Sudan (PhD dissertation, Gonzaga University , 1999)

Susan Jenkins, Aspects of the informal economic sector of Juba southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 1981)

Douglas H. Johnson, History and prophecy among the Nuer of the southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980)

Jok Madut Jok, Women, sexuality, and social behavior in Western Dinka: The impact of war on reproductive health in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003)

Peter Hakim Justin, State-building or State formation? The dilemma of choice and state failure in South Sudan. Evidence from Yei River County (PhD dissertation, University of Wageningen, 2018)

Sumit Shrikant Kane, Social norms and reproductive health amongst the Fertit people of western Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Universiteit Amsterdam, 2018)

Tarnjeet Kaur Kang, Community Self-Determination in South Sudan: a return to the subaltern (PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

Unni Krishnan Karunakara, The demography of forced migration displacement and fertility in the West Nile region of Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University , 2004)

C.M. Kenyi, Popular participation in development : the prospects, problems and educational possibilities for enhancing participation in rural co-operatives and community development in Yei district of southern Sudan 1972-1983 (PhD dissertation, University of Southampton, 1987)

Rob Kevlihan, States of insurgency : conflict transformation in civil wars through social services (PhD dissertation, American University, 2009)

Nicki Kindersley, The Fifth column? An intellectual history of Southern Sudanese communities in Khartoum, 1969-2005 (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 2016)

Ashley Kish, Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan: A Feminist Analysis of Women`s Subjugation in the Making of a Nation (PhD dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2017)

Stain Kjeksrud, Using force to protect civilians. A comparative analysis of United Nations military protection operations (PhD dissertation, University of Oslo, 2019)

Else Johansen Kleppe, Material and verbal manifestations of socio-cultural institutions in an African kingship: The Shilluk of southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, 2000)

W. Kunijwok Gwado-Ayoker, Government and community in a modern state : A case study of the Shillukand their neighbours (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1982)

Maḥgoub Kurdi, The encounter of religions : an analysis of the problem of religion in Southern Sudan, 1899-1983 (PhD dissertation, Temple University, 1986)

Cleophas Lado, Environment, knowledge and change: a case study of peasant farming in Maridi district, southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 1985)

Christopher Numa Lemoh, HIV in Victoria`s African communities: reducing risks and improving care (PhD dissertation, The University of Melbourne, 2013)

Cherry Leonardi, Knowing Authority: Colonial governance and local community in Equatoria Province, Sudan, 1900-56 (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 2005)

Elias Leju Leonardo, Induced agricultural innovations in violent conflicts and post-conflict situations : lessons from Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Reading, 2010)

Matthew LeRiche, How humanitarianism affected the conduct and outcome of war in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, King`s College London, 2008)

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Public Narratives as Symbolic Resources for Gender and Development: a case study of the women and community radio in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2016)

Godfrey Lienhardt, The Dinka of the Southern Sudan: Religion and Social Structure (PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 1952)

David Tyrrell Lloyd, The precolonial economic history of the Avongara-Azande c. 1750-1916 (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978)

Angelo Lobale L. Loiria, Political awakening in the Southern Sudan, 1946-1955 (PhD dissertation, University of California, 1969)

Ogum Jacob Loroto Lomoro, Property rights regimes and the sub-Saharan African agrarian crisis : a case study of the indigenous land tenure system and agricultural innovations in the Lotuho district of Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001)

William Olson Lowrey, Passing the peace...people to people: The role of religion in an indigenous peace process among the Nuer people of Sudan (PhD dissertation, Union Institute, 1996)

Billy Berto Madison, The Addis Ababa agreement on the problem of Southern Sudan : a study to evaluate the distribution of benefits among social groups in the Southern Sudan and to determine the impact of this distribution on the region`s political stability (PhD dissertation, University of Denver, 1989)

Andrew Malek Madut, The effects of culture on management practices in the public service organizations in the southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Glasgow, 1986)

Akok Madut, South Sudan`s Engagement with China: The Foreign Policy of a Liberation Movement in Government (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2019)

Charles Riziki Majinge, The United Nations, the African Union and the rule of law in Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2013)

Malok N. Malok, The relationship between leadership style and motivation among faculty members in two public universities in the Republic of South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of the Incarnate Word, 2012)

Sebabatso Manoeli, Narrative Battles : Competing Discourses & Diplomacies of Sudan`s "southern Problem" 1961-1991 (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2017)

Phillip Tor Manyok, Cattle Rustling and Its Effects among Three Communities (Dinka, Murle and Nuer) in Jonglei State, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, 2017)

Ferenc David Marko, Red Tape Theater: The Creation of Citizens and Sovereignty in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Central European University, in progress)

Zoë Marriage, Not breaking the rules, Not playing the game: a study of assistance to countries at war (1997-2001) (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2006)

Sarah Marriott, Development Narratives in South Sudan since 1945 (PhD dissertation, Durham University, in progress)

Kenneth Adam Masungu, A Delphi survey process on a decentralized educational system in southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, North Dakota State University, 2010)

Angelina Julius Mattijo-Bazugba, Politics of gender quotas : What accounts for the relative success of gender quotas in the first South Sudanese elections? (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2014)

Andrew Mawson, The Triumph of Life: Political Dispute and Religious Ceremonial Among the Agar Dinka of the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 1989)

Lazarus Leek Mawut, The Southern Sudan under British Rule, 1998-1924: The constraints reassessed (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 1995)

Augustino Ting Mayai, Essays in child health and health systems in Eastern Africa : evidence from South Sudan and Ethiopia (PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015)

Gabriella Marie McMichael, An elusive peace dividend: land access and violence in non-formal settlements in juba, southern sudan (PhD dissertation, The University of Manchester , 2013)

Michael Roger Medley, Humanitarian parsimony in Sudan : The Bahr Al-Ghazal famine of 1998 (PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, 2010)

Tumaini Minja, Dealing with a buried past : the relevance of customary reconciliation to bottom-up transitional justice in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of York, 2013)

Zachary Mondesire, Region-craft: An Ethnography of South Sudan's Transnational Intelligentsia (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2022)

Malik Doka Morjan, Movements and conservation of the migratory white-eared kob (Kobus kob leucotis) in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014)

Leben Nelson Moro, Oil, conflict and displacement in Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2008)

Ngatho Samuel Mugo, Maternal and child healthcare services in South Sudan: the factors associated with non - use of antenatal care, skilled birth attendants, facility delivery services and child survival (PhD dissertation, University of Sydney, 2017)

Brigitte Müller, Health of conflict-affected children in South Sudan : children`s roles, skills and competencies in identifying health threats, proposing solutions and implementing action (PhD dissertation, University of Liverpool, 2014)

Isao Murahashi, Untitled (about conflicts after CPA in Eastern Equatoria) (PhD dissertation, Osaka University, 2019)

Vicent Museke, The role of customary courts in the delivery of justice in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of South Africa , 2015)

Shuichiro Nakao, A Grammar of Juba Arabic (PhD dissertation, Kyoto University, 2017)

Leonie S. Newhouse, South Sudan Oyee! A Political Economy of Refugee Return Migration to Chukudum, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2012)

Jabi Jack Ngalam, An evaluation of the role of rural primary school teachers in community development tasks in southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1987)

Jeremiah Muriithi Ngondi, The epidemiology of trachoma and evaluation of trachoma control in southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 2007)

Moses Ngor Ring, Dinka cattle trade: A study of socio-economic transformation in a semi-pastoral society (PhD dissertation, University of Nairobi, 1980)

Marc R. Nikkel, The origins and development of Christianity among the Dinka of Sudan: with special reference to the songs of Dinka Christians (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1994)

Salah Eldin Noah, Analysis of the Role of the Meridi Extension Unit in the Socio-Economic Development of Primitive Tribal Societies in Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1964)

Charles S. North, Developing a curriculum for the training of pastors as agents of communal reconciliation in post-conflict South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Texas Abilene Christian University, 2014)

Ryan O'Byrne, Becoming Christian: Personhood and Moral Cosmology in Acholi South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University College London, 2016)

Manfred Öhm, War and Statehood in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, 2014)

Akira Okazaki, Open shadows : dreams, histories and selves in a borderland village in Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1997)

Kenneth Okeny, The rejection of federalism and emergence of southern Sudanese nationalism, 1950-1972 (PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992)

Abdal Hamid Sayed Omer, Comparative Study Of Schistosoma Mansoni Infection In The Gezira Area Of Northern Sudan And Bor District Of Southern Sudan (Doctor of Medicine dissertation, University of Khartoum, 1978)

Christine Mary Pagen, International aid as informal educator : exploring political attitudes and engagement in southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2010)

Naomi Ruth Pendle, Laws, landscapes and prophecy: the art of remaking regimes of lethal violence amongst the western Nuer and Dinka (PhD dissertation, The London School of Economics, 2017)

D. Peprah, `NGOs, they cannot kill people` : cholera vaccination in the context of humanitarian crises in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2017)

Paul Velentino Phiri, Trials of a comprehensive peace agreement: an investigation into the dilemmas faced by North and South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bradford , 2016)

Clémence Pinaud, Les armes, les femmes et le bétail : une histoire sociale de la guerre civile au Sud Soudan (1983-2005) (PhD dissertation, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris), 2013)

Scopas Sekwat Poggo, War and conflict in the southern Sudan, 1955-1972 (PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999)

Pavel Přikryl, Zhroucené státy jako faktor mezinárodních vztahů ; Failed States as a Factor of International Relations (PhD dissertation, University of Economics, Prague (VŠE); Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze , 2018)

Jamie Pring, Making the Middle. Localizing Inclusivity in the IGAD-led Mediation in South Sudan(2013-2015) (PhD dissertation, University of Basel, 2020)

Conrad C. Reining, A social study of the Azande of the Nile-Congo divide (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1959)

Karambu L. Ringera, Excluded voices : grassroots women and peacebuilding in southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Denver, 2007)

Øystein H. Rolandsen, The Sudan People`s Liberation Movement/Army’s national convention and political changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s (PhD dissertation, University of Oslo, 2003)

H. Wani Rondyang, The Role of Indigenous Languages in Southern Sudan: Educational Language Policy and Planning (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2007)

Paula Cristina Roque, The rebel governance of the SPLM/A and UNITA : a comparative study on parallel states in Angola and South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2017)

John Rumunu , Untitled (PhD dissertation, University of Piemonte Orientale, in progress)

Christine Emily Ryan, Raised by war : child soldiers of Southern Sudan during the Second Civil War (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2009)

G.N. Sanderson, Anglo-French competition for the control of the upper basin of the Nile, 1890-1899: its development and resolution in the Fashoda crisis (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1959)

Lilian Margaret Sanderson, Education in the southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1966)

Martina Santschi, Encountering and `capturing` Hakuma : negotiating statehood and authority in Northern Bahr El-Ghazal Sate, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bern, 2014)

Burkhard Schnepel, Five Approaches to the Theory of Divine Kingship and the Kingship of the Shilluk of the Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1986)

Mareike Schomerus, Even Eating You Can Bite Your Tongue: Dynamics and Challenges of the Juba Peace Talks with the Lord’s Resistance Army (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2012)

Manuel Schwab, Speculative Humanitarianism: Political Economies of Aid and Disputed Notions of Crisis (PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2015)

David Sconyers, British Policy and Mission Education in the Southern Sudan, 1928-1946 (PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1978)

Iris Seri-Hersch, Histoire scolaire, impérialisme(s) et décolonisation(s) : le cas du Soudan anglo-égyptien (1945-1958) (PhD dissertation, L'Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman, 2012)

Candida Elizabeth Sevier, The Anglo-Egyptian condoninium in the southern Sudan, 1918-1939 (PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1975)

Mohamed Abdalla Murad Sherif, Petrography, Sedimentology and Reservoir Geology of Aradeiba and Bentiu Formations, Block 5A (Tharjath Oil Field) South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Khartoum, 2017)

Stephen David Siemens, Azande rituals of birth and death: Ethnography and formal analogy (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990)

Ahmad Sikainga, British Policy in the Western Bahr Al-Ghazal (Sudan), 1904-1946 (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1986)

James Gassim Simon, The knowledge of and control practices for Malaria in rural areas of Mundri East County, Southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of South Africa , 2011)

Per Säfholm, The river-lake Nilotes : politics of an African tribal group (PhD dissertation, Uppsala, 1973)

Simon Simonse, Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in the Southeastern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Free University of Amsterdam, 1990)

Kavita Singh, Forced migration and under-five mortality in northwestern Uganda and southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University , 2001)

Tim Steinecke, National oil companies and state actors : an assessment of the role of Petronas and ONGC in the foreign policy decision-making process of Malaysia and India using the example of overseas investments in Sudan and South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of St Andrews , 2015)

Darryl Stellmach , Coordination in crisis: the practice of medical humanitarian emergency (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2016)

Noel Stringham, Marking Nuer Histories: Gender, Gerontocracy, and the Politics of Inclusion in the Upper Nile from 1400-1931 (PhD dissertation, University of Virginia , 2016)

James E. Sulton, Regional autonomy in the Southern Sudan : a study in conflict regulation (PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University , 1987)

Timm Sureau, `The Last Bullet` : South Sudan`s emerging state (PhD dissertation, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017)

John V. Sutcliffe, The hydrology of the Sudd region of the upper Nile (PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 1957)

Rebecca Sutton, The International Humanitarian Actor as ‘Civilian Plus’: The Circulation of the Idea of Distinction in International Law (PhD dissertation, London School of Economics, 2018)

Musṭafa Ibrahim Ṭaha, The relation of Nuer indigenous education and modern schooling in the Sudan (PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1974)

Jeremy Gareth Taylor, `Japan is back` : Japan`s (re)engagement in Africa : the case of South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of London, 2015)

Jolaade Adeogun Tolulope , Exploring the impact of women`s organizations in peace building in Africa : a case study of women`s organizations in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)

Sandra Tombe, Untitled (PhD dissertation, George Mason University, in progress)

Kerstin Tomiak, To train a watchdog: media development, statebuilding and measurement in south sudan (PhD dissertation, Cardiff University, 2017)

Megan L.. Tompkins, An assessment of water use practices and attitudes in Old Fangak, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2013)

Justin B. Tongun, Determinants of breastfeeding practices, child morbidity and mortality in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, in progress)

Christopher Gallien Tounsel, God Will Crown Us`: The Construction of Religious Nationalism in Southern Sudan, 1898-2011 (PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2015)

Brendan Tuttle, Life is Prickly: narrating history, belonging, and common place in Bor, South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Temple University, 2014)

Torbjørn Tvedt, Colonial technicians. The Sudan veterinary service, 1898-1956 (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, 1983)

Terje Tvedt, Water and politics. A history of the Jonglei project in the southern Sudan (PhD dissertation, University of Bergen, 1984)

Rens Twijnstra, On the state of business: trade, entrepreneurship and real economic governance in South Sudan (PhD dissertation, Wageningen University, 2014)

Hayley Umayam, Seeing Need: Knowledge Production and Reality in Humanitarian Practice/em> [provisional title] (PhD dissertation, Geneva Graduate Institute, forthcoming 2025)