Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Born in the United States, Bryceson moved to Tanzania in 1971, where she obtained a BA and MA in Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam.[2] She obtained a DPhil (Sociology) at the University of Oxford on African food insecurity.

Bryceson was a Senior Research Fellow at the African Studies Centre between 1992-2005, which maintains a small archive of documents obtained during her research for her first publication, Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania.[3]

Following her departure from the African Studies Centre, Bryceson took up the roles of Senior Lecturer and Reader at the Universities of Birmingham (2003-2004), Glasgow (2009-2013), respectively.[4] Bryceson also consulted with various international agencies, including the ILO, World Bank, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the then UK Department for International Development (now the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).[2]

Deborah Bryceson's main topics of study focus on the transformation of social and economic life in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bryceson's contributions to the field are found across the range of her publications - with her most notable being the definition of the concepts of 'de-agrarianisation' and 'transnational families'.

• Bryceson, Deborah Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania, 1919-1985. 1990. London: Macmillan
• Bryceson, Deborah Liberalizing Tanzania’s Food Trade: Public & Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy 1939-1988. 1993. London: James Currey Publishers
• Bryceson, Deborah et al Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice. (ed.) 1995. Oxford: Berg Publishers
• Bryceson, Deborah & Jamal, Vali Farewell to Farms: De-agraianization and Employment in Africa (ed.) 1997. Aldershot: Ashgate
• Bryceson, Deborah , Kay, Cristobal & Mooij, Jos Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America (ed.) 2000. London: Intermediate Technology Publications
• Bryceson, Deborah Alcohol in Africa: Mixing Business, Pleasure and Politics (ed.) 2002. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
• Bryceson, Deborah & Banks, Leslie Livelihood, Linkages and Policy Paradoxes (ed.) 2001. Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies 19(1)
• Bryceson, Deborah & Vuorela, Ulla The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks (ed.) 2002. Oxford: Berg Press
• Bryceson, Deborah & Potts, Deborah African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation? (ed.) 2006. London: Palgrave Macmillan
• Bryceson, Deborah , Okely, Judith & Webber, Jonathan Identity and Networks: Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures (ed.) 2007. Oxford: Berghahn
• Bryceson, Deborah , Havnevik, Kjell , Birgegård, Lars-Erik , Matondi, Prosper , Beyene, Atakilte African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Poverty? (ed.) 2007. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute ISBN 91-7106-608-4
• Bryceson, Deborah , Grieco, Margaret , Ndulo, Muna , Porter, Gina & McCray, Talia Africa, Transport and the Millenium Development Goals (ed.) 2009. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN (13) 978-1-4438-1300-6
• Bryceson, Deborah et al How Africa Works: Occupational Change, Identity and Morality (ed.) 2010. London: Practical Action Publishers ISBN 978-1-85339-691-5
• Bryceson, Deborah & MacKinnon, Danny Mining & Urbanisation in Africa: Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories (ed.) 2012. Abingdon, UK: Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-82625
• Bryceson, Deborah , Fisher, Eleanor , Jonsson, Jesper Bosse , Mwaipopo, Rosemarie Mining & Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralising and Democratising Trends in Artisanal Production (ed.) 2014. Abingdon, UK: Routledge 978-0-415-83370-7
• Bryceson, Deborah Transnational Families in Global Migration: Navigating Economic Development and Life Cycles across Blurred and Brittle Borders (ed.) 2019. Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(16)