Megan Vaughan

Megan Vaughan gave the 2022 Stephen Ellis lecture "Africa in the time of Coronavirus - Biology, history and politics", African Studies Centre Leiden, 1 December 2022.[1][2]

Megan Vaughan, FBA, FRHistS is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of East and Central Africa.[3] Since October 2015, she has been Professor of African History and Health at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.[4] From 2002 to 2016 she was Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge.[4][5]

Honours

In 1995, Vaughan and Henrietta Moore were awarded the Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association for their book Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990.[6] In 2006, she was awarded the Heggoy Prize for French Colonial History by the French Colonial Historical Society for her book Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-century Mauritius.[7]

In 2002, Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5] On 17 July 2015, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree by the University of Kent "in recognition of her contribution to the study of world history".[8]

Selected works

  • Hirschmann, David; Vaughan, Megan (1984). Women Farmers of Malawi: Food Production in the Zomba District. Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0877251583.
  • Vaughan, Megan (1987). The story of an African famine: gender and famine in twentieth-century Malawi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521329170.
  • Vaughan, Megan (1991). Curing their ills: colonial power and African illness. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0745607801.
  • Moore, Henrietta L.; Vaughan, Megan (1994). Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition, and agricultural change in the northern province of Zambia, 1890-1990. Portsmouth: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0435080884.
  • Vaughan, Megan (2005). Creating the Creole island: slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822334026.
  • Mahone, Sloan; Vaughan, Megan, eds. (2007). Psychiatry and Empire. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403947116.
  • Kalusa, Walima T.; Vaughan, Megan (2013). Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History. Lusaka, Zambia: Lembani Trust. ISBN 978-9982680011.

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus - Biology, history and politics". www.ascleiden.nl. African Studies Centre Leiden. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  2. ^ 'Africa in times of Coronavirus - Biology, history and politics' | Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture 2022 on YouTube Video duration 1h 0 m 50s.
  3. ^ "Professor Megan Vaughan FBA". University of Kent. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Megan Vaughan". Institute of Advanced Studies. University College London. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Professor Megan Vaughan". British Academy. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Herskovits Award Winners". African Studies Association. 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize". French Colonial Historical Society. 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  8. ^ Herrema, Martin (6 July 2015). "Honorary degrees awarded as Kent celebrates 50th". University of Kent. Retrieved 20 February 2017.