Megan Vaughan

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, Vaughan 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.^[3] 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]

• 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.