Draft:Gwyn Campbell

Gwyn Campbell (born 1952) is an author and academic specializing in the economic and environmental history of Madagascar, Africa, and the Indian Ocean World. The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region, his fifth solo-authored monograph, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He is the founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, General Editor of the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies.

Life and Career

Gwyn Campbell was born in Madagascar to missionary parents and grew up in Wales. He received a PhD in History from the University of Wales in 1985. Before embarking on an academic career, he worked as a radio producer for BBC Wales and as the director of an adult education centre in Cardiff. Since entering academia, he has held positions at the University of the Witwatersrand, Avignon University, and McGill University.

In 2010, he was the recipient of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for a project entitled “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction.” In 2011, he founded the Indian Ocean World Centre, a research centre in McGill University’s Department of History and Classical Studies. In 2017, he was the recipient of a SSHRC Partnership Grant for a project entitled “Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World.”

During his academic career, he has published five solo-authored monographs and several edited or co-edited volumes.

He has three children: Rhiannon Gwyn, Rhys ap Gwyn and Lludd ap Gwyn. He is married to Canadian novelist, playwright, and journalist, Marianne Ackerman.

Bibliography

Monographs:

·The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region (2022) Cambridge University Press

· The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789-1831 (2020) Palgrave Macmillan

· Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to circa 1900 (2019) Cambridge University Press

· David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar” (2012) Brill

· An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) Cambridge University Press

Edited/co-edited works:

· The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia (2020) Palgrave. Co-edited with Alessandro Stanziani.

· Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World (2020) Palgrave. Co-edited with Eva-Maria Knoll.

· Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World (2020) Palgrave. Co-edited with Martha Chaiklin & Philip Gooding.

· Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World (2018) Palgrave.

· Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World (2016) Palgrave.

· Sex, Power, and Slavery (2014) Ohio University Press. Co-edited with Elizabeth Elbourne.

· Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World (2013) Pickering and Chatto. Co-Edited with Alessandro Stanziani,

· Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (2005) Routledge

· The Structure of Slavery in India and Asia (2004) Routledge