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Dr Christopher Vaughan

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

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I am a historian of twentieth century Africa. I am presently Co-Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies and Co-Director of the LJMU Centre for Modern and Contemporary History. Between 2020 and 2023, I was Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded research project, 'Regionalism in East Africa, c. 1900-present', conducted in collaboration with Dr Alden Young (UCLA) and Dr Frank Gerits (Utrecht University). Together with Dr Peter O'Reilly (Politics, LJMU), we are currently working on academic and non-academic outputs from this project. A monograph will provide the first comprehensive study of regionalism as a formal political and economic project in East Africa across both colonial and post-colonial periods.

My earlier research focused on colonial rule in Darfur, western Sudan, and contributed to debates on colonial violence, the dynamics of borderland regions in Africa, and the character of African chieftaincy.

I am happy to supervise research students working on twentieth century African history, especially eastern African history. To date I have supervised completed projects on British cultural diplomacy in South Africa; transatlantic dimensions of the Congo Reform Association; and the culture of political journalism in Zambia. I currently co-supervise a project on the role of colonial anxiety in shaping Britain's intelligence community in the early twentieth century. In 2020 I was awarded an Individual Teaching Excellence Award at LJMU.

Academic appointments

Co-Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange, APSS, Liverpool John Moores University, 2024 - present
Reader in African History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - present
Lecturer in African History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - 2020
Lecturer in African History, History, Durham University, 2012 - 2014

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