Gareth Meredith Austin#
| Membership Number: | 3196 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016, Jan - Professor of Economic History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 2010, Sept - 2016, Aug Professor of International History, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva (Head of Department, 2011-).
- 1988 - 2010 Successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Economic History, London School of Economics
- 1986 - 1988 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
- University of London
- 1982 - 1985 Lecturer in the Economic and Social History of West Africa, University of Ghana
- 1981- 1982 Temporary Lecturer in the Economic and Social History of West Africa, University of Birmingham
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa, especially West Africa from c.1500-present, including contemporary development issues in historical perspective
- Global economic and social history, especially economic culture, economic development, empires, slavery
- Economic and social history of southern Ghana, especially the former Asante kingdom, 19th & 20th centuries
- Comparative economic history of Africa, Asia and Latin America
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize, awarded by the Australian and New Zealand Economic History Society, for best article published in Australian Economic History Review in 2007
- 2003 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
