Jody Benjamin

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The Texture of Change: Dress, Self Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
Ohio University Press, New African Histories series, 2024 Finalist,
Best Book Prize 2024, African Studies Association

Reviewed in American Historical Review (September 2025), the International Journal of Maritime History 1–3 (2025), African Journal of Economic History.


Forthcoming Publications

“Capitalism and Impacts of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Africa,” in the Cambridge History of the African Diaspora, Cambridge University Press, peer reviewed, accepted, Forthcoming 2027

“Introduction” to Decolonising Cloth: an edited volume of scholarship from across the Global South, Humanities Across Borders, Methodology Book Series, Leiden University Press, under review, Forthcoming 2027






Recent Publications


Entanglements of Coerced Labor and Colonial Science in the 
Atlantic World and Beyond - Roundtable
co-authored in Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Duke University Press, 21, no. 1
(March 1, 2024): 11–26.



Exploring A Design Archive of the Global Circulation of Cloth
across Africa-Asia-Europe
with Aarti Kawlra, in Humanities Across Borders, Spring Newsletter, International Institute of Asian Studies, The Netherlands, 2025



History of Textiles in West Africa up to the 20th Century
in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2023.




Urban Slavery in Coastal West Africa
co-authored with Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Diaspora History, Oxford University Press, 2024


Historicizing Fashion in Western Africa. Global Linkages, 
Regional Markets and Local Tastes, 1700-1850
in Creating African Fashion Histories, eds. JoAnne McGregor and Nicola Stylianou, p. 41-66, Indiana University Press. 2022

Clothing as a Map to Senegambia’s Global Exchanges at The 
Turn of The Nineteenth Century
 In Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History, edited by Beverly Lemire and Georgio Riello. Routledge, 2019. 131-152. LINK

On Jean-Paul Sartre’s Hegelian View of African History
The Savannah Review, N. 5, May, 2015, 21-38.

WEB DuBois and Pan-Africanism
published in The Encyclopedia of African Thought, Oxford University Press. 2009

Book Reviews


Review of Toby Green, The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port,
London, UK: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, in Current History: A Journal of World Affairs, 2026






Review of Michael A. Gomez, African Dominion:
A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Princeton University Press, in the Journal of West African History, 2022


Review of Colleen Kriger, Making Money: Life, Death,
and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast,
Ohio University Press, in the Journal of African History, 2022.





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