McGill University
Research
The Indian Ocean World (IOW) is a macro-region running from Eastern and Southern Africa and the Middle East to South, Southeast and East Asia Our research, focused on human-environment interaction as the catalyst of historical change and current development, and on the elucidation of past-to-present patterns, is concentrated in the following fields:
- Environmental History
- Climate Change
- Slavery Studies
- Migration & Diaspora
- Economic History
- Development Studies
- Human, Environmental, & Historical Geography
- History of Medicine & Disease
- The Global South
- Africa in the World
Grants
The IOWC and core IOWC members have won grant monies totalling $8,706,820.00 from outside McGill:
- [2021-23] SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Climate history and human-environment interaction in Equatorial Eastern Africa, c.1780-1900.” $65,000, PI: Philip Gooding.
- [2018-25D], SSHRC, Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World.” $2.5 million, PI: Gwyn Campbell.
- [2014-18] SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, “New methods for the study of indigenous forms of human bondage in the Indian Ocean World.” $66,000, PI: Gwyn Campbell.
- [2011-13] Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) et l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) grant for Quebec-France collaborative research project, “Formes de l’avertissement dans l’océan indien: origines, structures et transformations.” $150,000, PI: Gwyn Campbell.
- [2010-17] Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI), “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction.” $2.5 million, PI: Gwyn Campbell.
Outlets
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies – a field-leading series of monographs and collected works from across Indian Ocean World Studies.
Indian Ocean World Podcast – an audio forum of the Appraising Risk partnership, highlighting new and exciting research in Indian Ocean World human-environment interactions.
IOWC Working Paper Series – an exciting publication venue for students, emerging scholars, and anyone else looking to place inchoate research in Indian Ocean World Studies.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (JIOWS) – multidisciplinary, open access, Scopus indexed journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press (link for further details)
Indian Ocean World Centre 