Academic position:ÌýProfessor of African History and Health
Department:ÌýInstitute of Advanced Studies
Email:Ìýmegan.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk
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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 toÌý°×С½ãÂÛ̳.Ìý
My work is inherently interdisciplinary and has mostly been focused on the historyÌýofÌýrural communities inÌýEast/Central Africa (particularly Malawi and Zambia). This has involved examining the social and political contexts (especiallyÌýcolonialism) of food production in relation to changing environmental conditions, demands onÌýlabourÌýand 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 theÌýWellcomeÌýTrust) aims to produce a critical account of chronic ‘non-communicable’ disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
Research Projects:
- Megan Vaughan,ÌýThe Story of an African Famine: gender and famine in twentieth century Malawi, Cambridge University Press, 1987Ìý
- Megan Vaughan and Henrietta Moore,ÌýCutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in Northern Zambia,ÌýHeinemann, 1997Ìý
- Megan Vaughan,ÌýCreating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius, Duke University Press, 1995Ìý
- Megan Vaughan,Ìý‘’,ÌýBioSocieties, 2018Ìý
- Megan Vaughan, ‘’,ÌýBulletin of History of Medicine, 2018Ìý