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Obol Sunday Jimmy is a DAAD Social and Cultural Anthropology PhD scholar on the research project, “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: Cross-Environmental Ethnographies of Moral Socialization”. Jimmy examines how Ngikaramojong pastoralist children in Karamoja, Uganda, cultivate reciprocal care that includes humans and animals (cattle, goats, and sheep) situating survival in collective responsibility within rapidly changing environmental and social contexts. Jimmy’s work explores how everyday practices like herding, caregiving, and resource sharing shape ethical reasoning that is relational, embodied, and grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems. Jimmy’s interdisciplinary research bridges anthropology, psychology, and environmental humanities to advance alternative frameworks of moral development beyond Eurocentric models. Jimmy holds a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and brings over a decade of expertise that spans public health, infodemic management, and community-based research, with a strong commitment to evidence-informed policy and locally grounded development practice across Africa and beyond. For his PhD research he was awarded a DAAD Doctoral Scholarship.
Dissertation project: Moral Ecologies in Motion: Child Ethics and Environmental Becoming among the Ngikaramojong Pastoralists