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Professor Megan Vaughan, FBA
Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
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Kings' College
Cambridge
CB2 1ST
Tel: +44 (0)1223 (3)31100
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Professor Vaughan studied African history at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, and taught for some years in the
University of Malawi and at the University of Oxford before taking up her
post in Cambridge.
Research and Teaching Interests
The social, economic and cultural history of Africa, history of
medicine and psychiatry in Africa, slavery in the Indian Ocean,
history and anthropology.
Undergraduate Teaching
Main teaching contributions are to Part 1 :Paper 23 ( The West and the
Third World), Paper 21 ( Expansion of Europe) and a new Themes and Sources
paper on Epidemics, Ideas and Colonialism. Part 11: Paper 25 ( History of
Africa since 1800) and paper 29 (British Empire and Commonwealth).
Graduate Supervision
Current and recently completed PhDs on the history of leprosy in
twentieth century Nigeria; history of African coffee growing in Kenya;
colonial psychiatry in East Africa; gender and land in Tanzania; history
of Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
Chief Publications
- The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth Century
Malawi (Cambridge 1987)
- Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness
(Polity Press, 1991)
- Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in
Noorthern Province, Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Henrietta L. Moore)
(Heinemann and James Currey, 1995)
- Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius
(Duke University Press, 2004).
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