Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

History, African Languages and Literature, Social History in Africa, Economic History in Africa, History of Medicine in Africa.

Elected 2002

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2002
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Modern History from 1850
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/people/professor-megan-vaughan

Current post

Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London Professor of African History and Health

2015 -

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History

2002 - 2016

University of Cambridge Smuts Research Fellow

1970 -

University of Oxford Professor, Faculty Fellow and Rhodes University Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies

1970 -

University of Malawi Lecturer in History

1970 -

Publications

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives

Edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Marissa Mika - Published in 2021 by University College London Press

Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

Megan Vaughan, Walima T. Kalusa - Published in 2013 by The Lembani Trust

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius

Megan Vaughan - Published in 2005 by Duke University Press

Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990

Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore - Published in 1995 by James Currey

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1992 by Polity Press

The Story of an African Famine

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1987 by Cambridge University Press

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

Syriac Studies

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Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

Current post

Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London Professor of African History and Health

2015 -

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History

2002 - 2016

University of Cambridge Smuts Research Fellow

1970 -

University of Oxford Professor, Faculty Fellow and Rhodes University Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies

1970 -

University of Malawi Lecturer in History

1970 -

Publications

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives

Edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Marissa Mika - Published in 2021 by University College London Press

Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

Megan Vaughan, Walima T. Kalusa - Published in 2013 by The Lembani Trust

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius

Megan Vaughan - Published in 2005 by Duke University Press

Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990

Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore - Published in 1995 by James Currey

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1992 by Polity Press

The Story of an African Famine

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1987 by Cambridge University Press

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

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Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

Current post

Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London Professor of African History and Health

2015 -

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History

2002 - 2016

University of Cambridge Smuts Research Fellow

1970 -

University of Oxford Professor, Faculty Fellow and Rhodes University Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies

1970 -

University of Malawi Lecturer in History

1970 -

Publications

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives

Edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Marissa Mika - Published in 2021 by University College London Press

Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

Megan Vaughan, Walima T. Kalusa - Published in 2013 by The Lembani Trust

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius

Megan Vaughan - Published in 2005 by Duke University Press

Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990

Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore - Published in 1995 by James Currey

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1992 by Polity Press

The Story of an African Famine

Megan Vaughan - Published in 1987 by Cambridge University Press

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

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