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Professor Megan Vaughan

Academic position:听Professor of African History and Health

Department:听Institute of Advanced Studies

Email:听megan.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Website:听Professor Megan Vaughan听

Biography:

I studied for a PhD in African History at SOAS and taught at the University of Malawi for several years. I was Professor of Commonwealth Studies at University of Oxford and then Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at University of Cambridge before moving to听UCL.听

My work is inherently interdisciplinary and has mostly been focused on the history听of听rural communities in听East/Central Africa (particularly Malawi and Zambia). This has involved examining the social and political contexts (especially听colonialism) of food production in relation to changing environmental conditions, demands on听labour听and gendered practices. I also work on the history of disease and medicine in Africa in relation to long-term environmental changes and the interventions of colonial and postcolonial states. My current research (funded by the听Wellcome听Trust) aims to produce a critical account of chronic 鈥榥on-communicable鈥� disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

Research Projects:

  • Megan Vaughan,听The Story of an African Famine: gender and famine in twentieth century Malawi, Cambridge University Press, 1987听
  • Megan Vaughan and Henrietta Moore,听Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in Northern Zambia,听Heinemann, 1997听
  • Megan Vaughan,听Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius, Duke University Press, 1995听
  • Megan Vaughan,听鈥�鈥�,听BioSocieties, 2018听
  • Megan Vaughan, 鈥�鈥�,听Bulletin of History of Medicine, 2018听

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