On Wednesday, Nov. 3, Dr. Benjamin Lawrance, recently appointed Conable Chair of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will be presenting a talk at the Williams Center Room S-104 between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
His talk, entitled "Child Trafficking and the Asylum Process in the US and Beyond" is being given as part of the campus Amnesty International chapter's series 'Crises in Context: a lecture series addressing contemporary challenges in Africa.’
A graduate of Stanford University and University College London, Dr. Lawrance’s research interests include comparative and contemporary slavery, child trafficking, globalization, human rights, and asylum.
He has published three books, and a forth on trafficking in women and children will shortly be forthcoming. His essays appear in International Labor and Working Class History, Food & Foodways, the Journal of African History, African Economic History, Cahiers d'Études Africaines, the African Studies Review, and others.
Dr. Lawrance is the recipient of national and international awards, including fellowships at Yale, Harvard, the University of Notre Dame, the Rotary Foundation, and the University of California President’s Fellowship in the Humanities.
