Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

History, African Languages and Literature, Social History in Africa, Economic History in Africa, History of Medicine in Africa.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Subjects
History

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

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

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Professor Daniel Potts FBA

The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era

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Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history

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