Stevens Aguto Odongoh is a Social Anthropologist with a special interest in borders and borderland dynamics. Affiliated to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and he earned his and Masters of Philosophy in Anthropology of Development, University of Bergen, Norway. His fieldwork area is the borderland between northern Uganda and Southern Sudan with special focus on Acholi people with experience in research, education with a particular focus on community rural development. Odongoh has research experience in a range of thematic areas including human and indigenous rights, development policy regimes and natural resource management. His current research and papers are concerned with the linkages between local/indigenous ecological knowledge, poverty and the management of natural resources. He is currently working on a paper on Poverty and fishing in Lake Victoria under the PovFish Programme funded by the Norwegian Research Council. His teaching experience includes the supervision and teaching of Bachelors’ level courses at Makerere University. He has trained and also has practical knowledge in the areas of Anthropological theory, Practical Methodology and anthropological fieldwork, ethnography, poverty, and social transformation, language, and Culture. At Makerere, he has been participating in monitoring students and conducting orientation workshops for new students, offering counselling services and career guidance to students together with other colleagues.