Benjamin Lawrance Explained

Benjamin N. Lawrance (born 1973) is a legal historian who works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, with a particular focus on West Africa. Until 2017, he was the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies[1] in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He works on comparative and contemporary slavery and trafficking, citizenship, human rights, and the law of asylum and refugees. He is currently Professor of African History at the University of Arizona.

Benjamin Lawrance currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the African Studies Review, the flagship journal of the African Studies Association.

Life

Benjamin Lawrance was born in York, England, and emigrated to Australia as a child. He attended Barker College for high school. He returned to the U.K. for undergraduate and graduate education at University College London. He moved to the U.S.A. for graduate study in 1996 at Stanford University.[2] After graduate school he taught at several institutions, including Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, California State University at San Bernardino, and the University of California, Davis.

He became the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a position which honors Barber Conable.[1] Subsequently, he took a position at the University of Arizona.[3]

He serves on the Advisory Board of PROTECT: the National Association for the Protection of Children.[4]

Works

Benjamin Lawrance's earlier work focused on the connection between twentieth-century Ewe identity creation and the creation of a specific periurban zone in southern Togo.[5] Lawrance has also published several edited collections, including "Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa" (with Richard Roberts and Emily Osborn)[6] and "Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa" (with Richard Roberts).[7]

Interests

With Jacqueline Stevens, Lawrance is currently exploring the experiences of individuals who cannot prove their citizenship or identity.[14]

Lawrance regularly serves as a legal consultant on the contemporary political, social and cultural climate in West Africa for ongoing immigration matters. He has served as an expert witness for over two hundred asylum claims of West Africans, including many from Togo. He has been an expert in different national jurisdictions, including the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K, Israel, Hong Kong, and South Korea, and his opinions have featured in several appellate rulings in the U.S. and rulings from the Queen's Bench in the U.K.[15]

He is an Editor for CIHA Blog, Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RIT - International and Global Studies BS - the Conable Chair in International and Global Studies . 16 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130104002412/http://www.rit.edu/cla/sociology/international/conable.html . 4 January 2013 . dead .
  2. Stanford University Department of History Placements Website: Web site: Stanford Department of History . 2013-01-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130623010106/http://history.stanford.edu/placements . 23 June 2013 . dmy-all . accessed 18 January 2013
  3. University of Arizona Department of History website: Web site: Benjamin N. Lawrance | the Department of History. 2017-09-17.
  4. Web site: Benjamin N. Lawrance, Ph.D. . 2013-01-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110103235018/http://protect.org/about/policy-advisory-board/265-benjamin-n-lawrance-phd . 3 January 2011 . dmy-all . accessed 18 January 2013
  5. Locality, Mobility and 'Nation': Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007)
  6. Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)
  7. Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012)
  8. Web site: African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights . www.ohioswallow.com . January 22, 2015.
  9. Web site: Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status | Human rights . www.cambridge.org . January 22, 2015.
  10. Web site: Amistad's Orphans . 2015-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123074328/http://hostmaster.yalebooks.com/bookprinter.asp?isbn=0300198450 . 23 January 2015 . dmy-all . accessed January 22, 2015
  11. Web site: Benjamin N. Lawrance · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press . www.ohioswallow.com . 18 January 2013.
  12. Web site: 'Tasting Histories' Conference . news.ucdavis.edu . February 4, 2009 . 18 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206080051/http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8976 . 2013-12-06 . dead.
  13. Web site: Locality, Mobility, and "Nation" Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 . www.urpress.com . 18 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150121053524/http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9969 . 2015-01-21 . dead.
  14. Web site: Citizenship-in-Question - Evidentiary Challenges for Jus Soli and Autochthony, from Authenticité to 'Birtherism' . jacquelinestevens.org . May 9, 2012 . 18 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220609181604/https://jacquelinestevens.org/CitizenshipQuestionConfReptWAbstracts.pdf . 2022-06-09 . live.
  15. Web site: S v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1939 (QB) ]. 16 July 2012 . bailii.org . September 6, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220906105250/http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2012/1939.html . 2022-09-06 . live.

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