Olufemi Vaughan’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Nigerian acadmic
From Nigeria
Gender male
Birth

18 October 1957

Age 63 years

Olufemi (Femi) Vaughan (born 18 October 1957) is a Nigerian academic whose research and teaching focuses on African political and social history and the comparative politics of African states. His scholarship has been primarily influential in Nigerian history and politics. He is the Alfred Sargent Lee and Mary Ames Lee Professor of African Studies at Amherst College.

Early life and career

Olufemi Vaughan was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. He earned a B.A and M.A in Government & Politics at St. John’s University in 1980 and 1983, and a PhD in politics from Oxford University in 1989. While at Oxford, he was a student of three distinguished Africanists, historian Anthony Kirk-Greene, historian Terence Ranger, and political sociologist Gavin Williams. He was assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of Africana Studies & History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook from 1990-2008. At Stony Brook, he was also associate provost, associate dean, and directed the International Studies Program and the College for Global Studies. He was the Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History at Bowdoin College from 2008-2017, where he helped build an innovative interdisciplinary program in Africana Studies. He is a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Methods, Sources, and Historiography in African History, co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Nigeria, associate editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History, a member of the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar’s Africa Program, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Nigerian Studies.

Vaughan is currently the Alfred Sargent Lee and Mary Ames Lee Professor of African Studies at Amherst College.

Scholarship and research

Vaughan’s scholarship revolves around five interrelated themes in African historical and political studies: traditional socio-political structures in modern African states; state-society relations and political legitimacy in Nigeria; development and governance in African states; globalization and migration in Africa; and religion and state formation in Nigeria. He is the author and editor of ten books and over fifty scholarly articles, including Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s, considered a seminal work on the study of traditional authorities in contemporary African states, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, an acclaimed work on the foundational role of Christianity and Islam in the formation of the Nigerian state and society, and Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880s-1990s. His articles and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals such as the Journal of African History, African Affairs: Journal of the Royal African Society, Journal of Asian & African Studies, Politique Africaine, Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, American Historical Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Canadian Journal of History, Canadian Journal of African Studies, African Studies Review, and The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

Awards and honors

Vaughan is the recipient of major research and teaching awards including a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellowship, two Ford Foundation Research fellowships, Distinguished Scholar’s Award, Association of Global South Studies, and a State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also serves as co-trustee of Omolewa Nursery & Primary School, a leading private elementary school in Ibadan, Nigeria, his late mother, Gladys Aduke Vaughan (Otun-Iyalode of Ibadan) founded in 1962.

The Olubadan of Ibadan Land (the traditional ruler of Ibadan in Nigeria) awarded him the honorary traditional title of Aare Onigege Ara of Ibadan Land for his research work in African studies in March 2017.

Major works

  • Olufemi Vaughan, Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s – 1990s, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000, pp. v-293 (Cecil B. Currey Book Prize, Association of Global South Studies, 2001). Paperback edition, 2006.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016, pp. pp. xi- 311.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1890s – 1990s, Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 2003, pp. v-218.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth Century Africa: Essays in Honor of A. H. M. Kirk-Greene, London: Macmillan Press, 1993, pp. vi-284.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1–280.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Transnational Africa & Globalization, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1–266.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (editor) Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa, Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 2005, v-406.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (editor) Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookcraft Press; Oxford: Oxford Book Collective, 2004, pp. iv-358.
  • Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Globalization and Marginalization: Essays on the Paradoxes of Global and Local Forces, Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2005, pp. v-346.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ‘Chieftaincy Politics and Communal Identity in Colonial Western Nigeria, 1893-1951,’ Journal of African History, 44, 2003, pp. 283–302.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ‘Assessing Grassroots Politics and Community Development in Nigeria,’ African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society, 94, 1995, pp. 501-518.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ‘Chieftaincy Politics and Social Relations in Nigeria’ Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 29, 3, 1991, pp. 308–327.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ‘Communalism, Legitimation, and Party Politics at the Grassroots: The case of the Yoruba,’ International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 7, 3, 1994, pp. 419-440.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ’Les Chefs Traditionnels Face au Pouvior Politique’ Politique Africaine,’ 32, 1988, pp. 44-56.
  • Olufemi Vaughan, ‘The Politics of Global Marginalization’ Journal of Asian and African Studies, 29, 3-4,1994, pp. 186–204. Olufemi Vaughan, ‘Muslim Women’s Rights in Northern Nigeria’ (co-author) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Africa Program Occasional Papers), 2015, pp. 1–7.
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