Oct 21
Fall Lefler Lecture - Dr. Jody Benjamin
Tue, October 21, 2025
• 5:15pm
- 6:45pm (1h 30m) • LEI 305
Dr. Jody Benjamin is a social and cultural historian of Western Africa with expertise in the period between 1650 and 1850. His research is informed by a methodological concern to center the diverse experiences and perspectives of Africans in ways that transcend the limitations of the colonial archive. In broad terms, Prof. Benjamin’s scholarship interrogates the multiple connections between west African, African diaspora and global histories through the lens of material culture, technology, labor, gender and race to reshape how historians think about western Africa’s role in the history of global capitalism and its connections to contemporary questions of global inequality.
Lecture info TBD
from History
Event Contact: mwilliamsen, rbrueckmann