Megan Vaughan

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][5] 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.

[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".

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 ]