Britton Gustafson

Britton Gustafson

Graduate Student

Email: brittongus@g.ucla.edu

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Biography

Britton is a History PhD student at UCLA, where he studies African history and the history of medicine. He focuses on East Africa and disease.

 

Field of Study

Africa

Subfield

East Africa & Indian Ocean; 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. Michigan State Journal of History, 10. 2023.

 

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

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)

Hollian Wint

Degrees

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

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