Cynthia Brantley, "Ben and Maggie: Consuming Data: Reassessing Scientific and Anthropological Evidence: Historical Perspectives on Nutrition Studies," in Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, eds., Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written and Unearthed. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003): 335-345.

Cynthia Brantley, "Colonial Africa: Transforming Families for Their Own Benefit (and Ours)," in Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard, eds., Families of a New World: Gender Politics, and State Development in a Global Context. (New York: Routledge, 2003): 139-155.

Cynthia Brantley, Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial Africa (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2002)

Brantley, Cynthia. "Through Ngoni Eyes: Margaret Reads Matrilineal Interpretations from Nyasaland" in Critique of Anthropology. Special Issue on Matriliny. 17:2 (June, 1997) 146-169.

Brantley, Cynthia. "Kikuyu-Maasai Nutrition in 1928 Kenya" in The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 30:1 (1997): 49-86.