She is the Vice Chancellor Karamoja Peace And Technology University.

Sr. Dominic Dipio is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education. She represents the African continent on this important governing body of the Holy See. She is a full professor of literature and film and the former Chair of the Department of Literature at Makerere University. She is a distinguished researcher and scholar. Some of the fellowships and academic awards associated with her are: The East African Commonwealth Fellowship, Fulbright, African Humanities Program (AHP), Cambridge-Africa Programme for Research Excellence (CAPREx), the Research Innovation Fund (Makerere), and the Leadership Academy – HERS-SA.

A Humanities scholar Dipio has over 70 publications in her interdisciplinary research interests in: literature, film, folklore, ritual, popular culture, audience, and gender studies. In her researches, the dialogue between the city and the village, the old and the new, the past and the present, gender and the voices from the margins are often palpable. She is a filmmaker and critic who has participated as a juror at several international, regional and local film festivals such as in Berlin (Germany), Milan (Italy), Amiens (France), the Federation of Pan-African Filmmakers (FESPACO, Burkina Faso), and the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF).

Dipio has, and continues to be instrumental to the development of the Uganda Film industry, particularly in her role as a juror since the inception of the Uganda Film Festival (UFF) in 2013, and as a Chair of the Content Support Development Program (CSDP), established in 2020 by the Uganda Government to support the budding national film industry. Dipio has also served on the Pontifical Council for Communication; and she is currently a member of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See.

Among Dipio’s significant and completed research collaborations are the following: the Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education (NUFU) titled, “The Role of Ugandan Folklore as Repository of Traditional Wisdom”. She was the Principal Investigator (PI) in this research that produced several graduate students and academic publications. The “Ubuntu Colloquium” where she participated with scholars from South and East Africa and generated publications on the practice of Ubuntu from diverse African perspectives. A Mellon Foundation project she participated in with colleagues in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences focused on Historicizing and Rethinking the Humanities Knowledge Production from a Ugandan Locus, to mark 100 years of Makerere University’s existence.

Currently, she is a Co-PI on the Mellon Foundation funded collaborative research project that focuses on Culture and the Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands. This research foregrounds a couple of African cities (Accra, Cape Town, Kampala, Johannesburg/Pretoria, and Nairobi) and trains PhDs and Early Careers scholars. Her ongoing ‘pet’ research project is the Uganda Government supported Research Innovation Fund (RIF) project of Makerere University, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team in the adaption of Ugandan (African) folktales into animation films for children’s educational and leisure needs.

Dipio has served on several academic boards, such as the Journal of African Cultural Studies (JACS); the Journal of African Cinema (JAC); the African Humanities Association (AHA) Executive Committee (Treasurer – current) mentor, assessor and reviewer for the African Humanities Program (AHP); Board Member of the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (Mashariki) conference series. Other non-academic boards she has served / serves on include the Communications Commission Board of the Uganda Episcopal Conference of Uganda from 2014 to 2023; Board Chair of the Cross Culture Foundation Uganda (CCFU), and the Chair of Wizarts Foundation.