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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project has occupied me for the better part of the last decade. Over the years I have benefited from the generous support of a number of people without whom the completion of this book would have been far more difficult. My deepest debt is to the communities I studied in Uganda, especially the young adults who befriended me and spoke so frankly with me about their hopes and fears. I thank the pastor I refer to as Thomas Walusimbi, whose unique combination of charisma and candor made every day in his church an adventure. Friends and colleagues in Uganda made long periods of fieldwork away from home far more pleasurable. Two research assistants in Uganda, Consulate Guma and Susan Labwot, helped me manage the logistics of research, especially during the shorter trips I took to Uganda in 2010 and 2011; their assistance was invaluable. Besides being an especially encouraging fellow Uganda studies scholar, Holly Hanson helped me to find a wonderful house to rent during one of my longest stretches of research in Kampala. Pastor Tom Mutete gave me support at crucial junctures of this project, and offered a willing ear for discussions about Christianity in Uganda whenever I needed it. Patrick Mulindwa and the staff at the Makerere Institute of Social Research provided me with institutional support while in Uganda. I am especially grateful to the family of Edward and Esther Kimuli, who hosted me as a visiting college student in Uganda in 1998, and who have treated me as part of their extended family since then. Their daughter Catherine and their son Andrew and Andrew’s wife Clare shared their homes with me during different periods of fieldwork, and their friendship has made my understanding of all aspects of Ugandan life fuller.

The primary period of fieldwork for this project was supported by a Fulbright Institute of International Education grant; I thank Dorothy Ngalombi and the late Paul Stevenson, both at the U.S. embassy in Kampala, for their help administering that grant. Other periods of fieldwork were supported by a Summer Fieldwork grant and a MacCracken Fellowship, both from New York University (NYU); and a Junior Faculty Development Grant from the University of North Carolina (UNC). A University Research Council Small Grant from UNC provided funding for the map included in chapter 2 and for the completion of the book’s index. A fellowship at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge (NYU) provided me with a year of support during the completion of an early draft of this book. I thank Troy Duster, Emily Martin, and Mary Poovey for that opportunity.

I am deeply indebted to the professors who guided this project in its earliest stages, most especially Tom Beidelman, Fred Myers, Bambi Schieffelin, Rayna Rapp, and Aisha Khan; their contributions to this book and to my growth as a scholar are too numerous to count. Friends and colleagues at New York University and beyond provided me with invaluable support, insight, and camaraderie: Elise Andaya, Ilka Datig, Nica Davidov, Kristin Dowell, Omri Elisha, Sholly Gunter, Jelena Karanovic, Jack Murphy, Karin Rachbauer, Pilar Rau, Ruti Talmor, and Will Thompson.

I am fortunate to have completed this book at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill in the company of a dynamic community of scholars. I have especially benefited from the support of my colleagues in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies—particularly my department chair Eunice Sahle. The Moral Economies of Medicine working group, hosted by members of the departments of Anthropology and Social Medicine, has been a rich forum of intellectual exchange and engagement. Special thanks to members of that group, and in particular Peter Redfield and Michele Rivkin-Fish. Two undergraduate research assistants at UNC, Mia Celnarova and Courtney Reed, helped with the transcription and coding of interviews. Friends at UNC have provided me with a supportive community in which to grapple with new ideas; very special thanks go to Mara Buchbinder, Emily Burrill, Jocelyn Chua, Jean Dennison, Jesse Summers, and Ariana Vigil. I could not imagine the process of writing this book, from beginning to end, without the support and close friendship of Ayako Takamori.

For reading and providing valuable feedback on parts of the manuscript, often at critical junctures in the writing process, I thank Emily Burrill, Nica Davidov, Michele Rivkin-Fish, Ayako Takamori, Clare Talwalker, and especially Dave Pier. For her supportive words and keen eye in the final stages of writing, I thank Holly Hanson. Two anonymous reviewers at Ohio University Press provided me with careful readings of the entire text and gave me very thoughtful insights on how to expand and improve my arguments. I am grateful to Gillian Berchowitz at Ohio University Press and Jim Webb, the editor of the Perspectives on Global Health series, for seeing potential in my manuscript.

A version of chapter 6 has been published previously in Anthropological Quarterly 86, no. 3 (2013) as “The Problem with Freedom: Homosexuality and Human Rights in Uganda” and is included here courtesy of the Institute for Ethnographic Research. Special thanks to Phil Schwartzberg at Meridian Mapping for the map that appears in chapter 2.

Writing a book can be an isolating process, and it is those closest to you who provide the emotional support that sees you through to the project’s completion. My parents, Jean Boyd and the late Joe Boyd, were unfailing in their encouragement of me, as have been my sisters Meredith and Sarah. I am most grateful for the extraordinary love of my husband, Dave Pier, and my daughter Ivy. Ivy was born just before I finished this book, and she has brought Dave and me the unadulterated joy that comes from seeing the world through a child’s curious eyes. Dave and I fell in love in Uganda, doing fieldwork alongside each other. The work that follows was made much richer because of our many discussions about Ugandan society and the experiences we shared there together. I dedicate this book to him.