Politics, Culture, and Society. Awards and honors Vaughan is the recipient of major research and teaching awards including a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellowship, two Ford Foundation Research fellowships, Distinguished Scholar's Award, Association of Global South Studies, Cecil B. Currey Book Prize, Association of Global South Studies, for his book, Nigerian Chiefs, Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize for his book Religion and the Making of Nigeria, and a State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also serves as co-trustee of Omolewa Nursery & Primary School, a leading private elementary school in Ibadan, Nigeria, his late mother, Gladys Aduke Vaughan (Otun-Iyalode of Ibadan) founded in 1962. The Olubadan of Ibadan Land (the oba --- traditional ruler --- of his hometown, Ibadan in Nigeria) awarded him the honorary title of Aare Onigege Ara of Ibadan in March 2017. Vaughan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2022. Major works Olufemi Vaughan, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016, pp. X-311. Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize. Olufemi Vaughan, Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s–1990s, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000, pp. v-293 (Cecil B. Currey Book Prize, Association of Global South Studies, 2001). Paperback edition, 2006. Olufemi Vaughan, Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1890s – 1990s, Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 2003, pp. v-218. Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth Century Africa, London: Macmillan Press, 1993, pp. vi-284. Olufemi Vaughan (editor) Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa, Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 2005, v-406. Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1–280. Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Transnational Africa & Globalization, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1–266. Olufemi Vaughan (editor) Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2003, pp. xiii-442. Olufemi Vaughan (editor) Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookcraft Press; Oxford: Oxford Book Collective, 2004, pp. iv-358. Olufemi Vaughan (co-editor) Globalization and Marginalization: Essays on the Paradoxes of Global and Local Forces, Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2005, pp. v-346. Olufemi Vaughan, 'Chieftaincy Politics and Communal Identity in Colonial Western Nigeria, 1893–1951', Journal of African History, 44, 2003, pp. 283–302. Olufemi Vaughan, 'Assessing Grassroots Politics and Community Development in Nigeria’, African Affairs: The