Megan Vaughan Explained

Megan Vaughan, is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of East and Central Africa.^[1] Since October 2015, she has been Professor of African History and Health at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.^[2] From 2002 to 2016 she was Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

In 2002, Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. 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".^[6]

Selected works

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Megan Vaughan FBA. University of Kent . 7 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410170550/http://www.kent.ac.uk/congregations/honorary-grads/current-grads/vaughan-megan.html . 10 April 2016.
2. Web site: Professor Megan Vaughan. Institute of Advanced Studies. University College London. 20 February 2017.
3. Web site: Professor Megan Vaughan . British Academy . 20 February 2017.
4. Web site: Herskovits Award Winners . African Studies Association . 7 December 2022 . 2022.
5. Web site: Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize . French Colonial Historical Society . 7 December 2022 . 2022.
6. Web site: Herrema. Martin. Honorary degrees awarded as Kent celebrates 50th. University of Kent. 20 February 2017. 6 July 2015.