Benjamin Lawrance

College of Art and Design College of Engineering Technology College of Health Sciences and Technology College of Liberal Arts College of Science Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences International Campuses Kate Gleason College of Engineering National Technical Institute for the Deaf School of Individualized Study

Benjamin Lawrance

Professor
College of Liberal Arts
Office of Endowed Chairs
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

2016 Submissions

Full Length Book

Lawrance, Benjamin N., Anne Bunting, and Richard L. Roberts. Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa. 1 ed. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Print. *

Journal Paper

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Boko Haram, Refugee Mimesis, and the Archive of Contemporary Gender-Based Violence." Radical History Review 126. (2016): 159-170. Print. *

Book Chapter

Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Charlotte Walker-Said. "Resisting Patriarchy, Contesting Homophobia: Expert Testimony and the Construction of African Forced Marriage Asylum Claims." Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. 199-224. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin N., Annie Bunting, and Richard L. Roberts. "‘Something Old, Something New’: Conceptualizing Forced Marriage in Africa." Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. 1-40. Print. *

2015 Submissions

Full Length Book

Terretta, Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Joanna T. Tague, and Meredith. African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights. 1st ed. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Print. *

Journal Paper

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Boko Haram, Asylum, and Memes of Africa." HAWWA: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 13. 2 (2015): 148-53. Print. ∆

Book Chapter

Terretta, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Joanna T. Tague, and Meredith. "Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants." African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. 1-37. Print. «

Ruffer, Benjamin N Lawrance and Galya. "Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication." Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 1-24. Print. «

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "From ‘Health Tourism’ to ‘Atrocious Barbarism’: Contextualizing African Migrant Choice, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice." Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 221-244. Print. «

Published Review

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "To know where you come from; that is divine: Three New Documentary Films about the African Slave Experience." Rev. of Three Films About Slavery, dirs. Emma Christopher, Marie Rodet, and Tony Buba. Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 36, No.4 2015: 738-746. Print.

2014 Submissions

Full Length Book

Lawrance, Benjamin N. Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling. 1st ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin and Gayla Ruffer. Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Print. «

Journal Paper

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "A Full Knowledge of the Subject of Slavery?: The Amistad, Expert Testimony, and the Origins of Atlantic Studies." Slavery & Abolition 35. 4 (2014): 1-21. Print. «

Book Chapter

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "La Amistad's 'Interpreter' Reinterpreted: James Kaweli Covey's Distressed Atlantic Childhood and the Production of Knowledge about Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone." Suzanne Schwarz and Paul Lovejoy (eds.), Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2014. 217-256. Print. ˜

Invited Paper

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Nigeria's Trafficking Situation in 2014: A Research Synthesis." National Intelligence University, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research Research Notes. (2014). Print. ∆

2013 Submissions

Journal Paper

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimony: Contestation over Health Care for Ghanaian Migrants in the United Kingdom." Ghana Studies 15-16. (2013): 253-288. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Your Poor Boy No Father No Mother: 'Orphans,' Alienation, and the Perils of Atlantic Child Slave Biography." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 36. 4 (2013): 672-703. Print. *

Book Chapter

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Chocolate Chiefs: Cocoa, Borders, and Colonialism in the Togoland Mandates, 1920-1945." Peuples et Frontieres dans l'Espace Ouest-Africain. Lome, Togo: Presses de l'Universite de Lome, 2013. 241-287. Print. ∆

2012 Submissions

Full Length Book

Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Richard L. Roberts. Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experiences of Women and Children in Africa. New African Histories ed. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Carolyn de la Pena. Local Foods Meet Global Foodways: Tasting History. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2012. Print. *

Book Chapter

Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Richard L. Roberts. "Contextualizing Trafficking in Women and Children in Africa." Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experiences of Women and Children in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. 1-34. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin N. "Documenting Child Slavery with Personal Testimony: The Origins of Anti-Trafficking NGOs and Contemporary Neo-Abolitionism." Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experiences of Women and Children in Africa. Ed. Richard L. Roberts. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. 163-182. Print. *

Lawrance, Benjamin N. and Carolyn de la Pena (Thomas). "Foodways, Foodism, or Foodscapes: Navigating the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides." Local Foods Meet Global Foodways: Tasting History. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2012. 1-19. Print. *

Published Review

Lawrance, Benjamin N. Rev. of West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ghana, by Sandra E. Greene. Journal of Biography Jul. 2012: 519-522. Print. *

External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee

12/1/2011 - 11/30/2012
     National Endowment for the Humanities
     Amount: $54,000 *

2010 Submissions

Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Published Article

Lawrance, Benjamin N. “From Child Labor ‘Problem’ to Human Trafficking ‘Crisis’: Child Advocacy and Anti-Trafficking Legislation in Ghana.” International Labor and Working-Class History, 78 (2010): 63-88. Print. É  *