Britton Gustafson

Field of Study

Africa

Subfield

East Africa; History of Medicine; Historical Epidemiology

Research

Disease Histories; Quantitative Analysis

Publications

Gustafson, Britton. “African Resistance to European Conquest During the African Rinderpest Panzootic of 1887 to 1897.” MSU Undergraduate Historian, 11:139-156. 2025.

Awards & Grants

2024 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles

2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (for Intermediate Swahili), U.S. Department of Education

Conference Presentations

Crisis Averted: Los Angeles’s Successful Campaign Against The Plague Epidemic of 1924: A Talk with Britton Gustafson UCLA History PhD student. Los Angeles City Historical Society Webinar. February 13th, 2025.

Imperial Medicine and the Second World War: The Kenyan Plague Epidemic of 1941-42. Britton Gustafson. Honors Thesis Celebration, East Lansing, MI. April 28th, 2023.

Opposite Experiences During a Pandemic: The Samoan Islands During the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 to 1920. Britton Gustafson. University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF), East Lansing, MI. April 8th, 2022.                                                                                                                 

Advisor(s)

Andrew Apter

Degrees

B.A. in Anthropology (Honors), Michigan State University, 2023

B.A. in History (Honors), Michigan State University, 2023