Meghan Elisabeth Healy

I am an historian of sub-Saharan Africa, with a Ph.D. in African Studies (2011) and an M.A. in History (2007) from Harvard University, as well as a B.A. in History (2005) from the University of Chicago. I hold a dual appointment at Harvard. In the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, I teach and advise students working in colonial and postcolonial studies; in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, I teach and advise students working on issues of gender and development. In Fall 2011, I am also teaching a section of the graduate research methods and writing proseminar in the Harvard Extension School, on education and gender inequality in comparative historical perspective.

Here you will find information about my work in Cambridge and in South Africa, my central research site and second home (see "About Me," "Publications," and "Teaching"). You can also access transcripts from the Inanda Seminary Oral History Project, a critical component of my dissertation research on southern Africa's first secondary school for African women. Please email me if you would like to learn more about my research and teaching.