Benn E. Williams

PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Acquisitions, author, bibliographer, cover designer, editor, indexer, layout editor, préfacier, translator. 

Book
Aukje Kluge and Benn E. Williams (eds.), Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009).

Series Editor, William L. Potter Publications

  • Carl J. Ekberg, Grady Kilman, Pierre Lebeau, and Sharon Person, Code Noir: The Colonial Slave Laws in French Mid-America, 2nd ed. (forthcoming 2020)
  • Mark Walczynski, Inquietus. LaSalle in the Illinois Country ​(2019)
  • Anna Laurie Burns Servaes, La Guiannée: An Ethnographic Study of Franco-American Cultural Identity (co-edition with the University of Mississippi Press, 2015).
  • Mark Walczynski, Massacre 1769. The Search for the Origin of the Legend of Starved Rock (2013).
  • Margaret Kimball Brown and Lawrie Cena Dean, The French Colony in the Mid-Mississippi Valley, 2nd ed. (2012).
  • Margaret Kimball Brown, The Voyageur in the Illinois Country: The Fur Trade’s Professional Boatmen in Mid America (2012 reprint)
  • Sharon Person, Standing Up for Indians: Baptism Registers as an Untapped Source for Multicultural Relations in St. Louis, 1766-1821, preface by B. Williams (2010, 2013 reprint).
  • B. Pierre Lebeau, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, and Robert Wiederaenders, Plumbing the Depths of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Julien Dubuque, Native Americans, and Lead Mining, preface by B. Williams (2008).
  • Margaret Brown and H. Randolph Williams (eds.), French Colonial Studies: Le Pays des Illinois. Selections from Le Journal, 1983-2005 (2006).


Articles, Book Chapters, Book Reviews, Essays

  • "Carole Sweeney. Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013." Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 41:1 (2017), Article 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1908
  • “Dénoncer les délateurs: l’épuration dans le Rhône, 1944-1953” in La délation en France dans les années noires, edited by Laurent Joly (Paris: Perrin, 2012). [Written in French]
  • Co-author with A. Kluge: “Introduction: New Voices and Directions in Holocaust Literature” in Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature, edited by Aukje Kluge and Benn E. Williams (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009), xi-xv.
  • “Varying Shades of Gray: Pierre Assouline at the Frontier of Fact and Fiction” in Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature, 111-130.
  • “Epilogue: Simply and Complexly Something Else” in Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature, 231-244.
  • “An International Bibliography of Holocaust Literature” in Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature, 245-386.
  • “Vallat, Xavier” in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, vol. 2, edited by Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2005), 731-732.
  • Co-author with Tal Bruttmann, “‘Aryanisation’, spoliations, pillages, restitutions et indemnisations: une tentative de bibliographie internationale” in Persécutions et spoliations des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, edited by Tal Bruttmann (Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2004), 123-192.
  • “Letters of Denunciation in the Lyon region, 1940-1944,” Historische Sozialforschung 26:2/3 (2001): 136-152.
  • “‘Monotonie sans égale’ or sanctuary for ‘unbridled thinkers’?” Swiss American Historical Society Review 37:2 (2001): 41-47.


Translations (excludes abstracts, administrative documents, speeches, and text polishing)

  • Christian Bessy, Expropriation by Law. Intellectual Property, Value and Labor. New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) (translator editor).
  • Jacques Commaille, “In a Troubled World: A New System of Knowledge about Law?” in In the Realm of Corona Normativities. A Momentary Snapshot of a Dynamic Discourse, edited by Werner Gephart, Recht als Kultur no. 23 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2020), pp. 61-66.
  • Laurent Joly, “The Parisian Police and the Holocaust: Control, Round-ups, Hunt, 1940-4,” Journal of Contemporary History (co-translated with the author) https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009419839774
  • Laurent Joly, “French Bureaucrats and Anti-Jewish Persecution: The 'Jewish service' of the Paris Police Prefecture, 1940-1944,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 33(1) (Spring 2019): 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcz013​
  • Jacques Commaille and Stéphanie Lacour, “Legal Consciousness Studies as a Laboratory of a Renewed System of Knowledge About Law. Presentation of the Special Report,” Droit et Société 28/3 (no. 100): 559-569. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe-2018-3.htm-page-559.htm
  • Fabien Carrié, "The Cruel Pleasures of the 'Plebeians': Bull-Baiting and the Political Representation of Animals in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain," Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 54:1 (2017) online. (Co-translated with Ophélie Siméon)
  • Marielle Debos, Living by the Gun in Chad. Impunity and State Formation (London: Zed, 2016) (Translated by Andrew Brown with the collaboration of B. Williams)
  • Sarah Gensburger and Isabelle Backouche, “Antisemitism and Urban Development in World War II France: The case of Paris’ Ilot 16,”  Contemporary European History 23(3) (2014): 381-403. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01067612/document
  • Marielle Debos, “‘Hate’ and ‘Security Vacuum’: How Not to Ask the Right Questions About a Confusing Crisis,” Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology Online (June 11, 2014), http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/545-neither-hate-nor-security-vacuum-how-not-to-ask-the-right-questions-about-a-confusing-crisis
  • Barbara Curli, Dames employées at the Suez Canal Company. The “Egyptianization” of the Female Clerical Personnel, 1941-1956,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014), 553–576. doi:10.1017/S0020743814000592
  • http://passes-present.eu/en - English translation of the website for Les passés dans le présent – Pasts in the Present: history, heritage, memory, Cluster of Excellence, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France, 2013-2014, 2016
  • In Liora Israël and Guillaume Mouralis (eds.), Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships: Legal Concepts and Categories in Action, in collaboration with Valeria Galimi and Benn E. Williams (The Hague: TMC Asser Press, 2013) [“Americanized” and copy edited ten additional chapters]:
    • Alya Aglan and Emmanuelle Loyer, “‘Épuration’: History of a Word,” pp. 23-38.
    • Sara Liwerant, “Humanity Seized by International Criminal Justice,” pp. 39-58.
    • Jon Elster, “Transitional Justice as Universal Narrative,” pp. 77-82.
    • Vanessa Voisin, “Law and the Soviet Purge: Domestic Renewal and International Convergences,” pp. 179-196.
    • Sandrine Lefranc and Frédéric Vairel, “The Emergence of Transitional Justice as a Professional International Practice,” pp. 235-252.
  • Laurent Joly, “The Genesis of Vichy’s Jewish Statute of October 1940,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 27, no. 2 (2013): 276-298.
  • Jacques Commaille, “A New Economy of Legality and the Process of Legitimization in Contemporary Societies,” in European and Chinese Sociology. A New Dialogue, International Comparative Social Studies, vol. 26, edited by Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Li Peilin (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 207-214.
  • Claire de Galembert, “L’affaire du foulard in the Shadow of the Strasbourg Court: Article Nine and the Public Career of the Veil in France” in Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity, edited by Ralph Grillo, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, André Hoekema, Marcel Maussen, and Prakash Shah (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), 237-265.
  • In Aukje Kluge and Benn E. Williams (eds.), Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009):
    • Tal Bruttmann, “The Holocaust through Comics,” pp. 173-200.
    • Christian Delage, “Samuel Fuller at Falkenau: from Soldier to Film Director,” pp. 217-228.
  • Valeria Siniscalchi, “The market logic of illegality in southern Italy,” EASA, 2008: Experiencing diversity and mutuality, Ljubljana, August 26-29, 2008.
  • In David Clark (ed.) Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, 3 vols., (Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2007):
    • Anne Boigeol and Alain Bancaud, “France” [II:598-601]
    • Anne Boigeol and Alain Bancaud, “Judicial independence” [II:849-851]
    • Thierry Kirat, “Lambert, Edouard (1866-1947)” [II:908-909]
    • Thierry Kirat and Frédéric Marty, “Contracts, Economics of” [I:295-300]
  • Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey, “La construction sociale de la légalité” Terrains & Travaux 6:1 (2004): 112-138. Co-translator with Liora Israël, Jérôme Pélisse, et al.
  • Several entries in The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, Dena Goodman (ed.), http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/ [2002].


 
Editorial and/or Technical Assistance

  • Reviewer, Critical Language Scholarship, 2019-
  • Referee, The City and History, 2020
  • Referee, French Forum, 2018
  • Pascal Bonnard and Cécile Jouhanneau (eds.), "Governing the memories of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. Policy instruments and social practices," European Politics and Society 18:1 (2017) [thematic issue]
  • Referee, Electronic Book Review, 2015
  • Referee, German Studies Review, 2015
  • William A. Hoisington, Jr., Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil de Paris à Casablanca: Vingt ans d’engagements (1935-1955) (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009)
  • “Appendix 1” in James Cracraft, The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 319-375.


PRESENTATIONS (select)

​"Reconstructing the Past." Session chair and member of scientific committee, 2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 12, 2017

​"Detroit and World: Kick(-)starting DH Projects," Wayne State University, November 20, 2015
“Historians at Work: Dispelling the Myths of Plans A, B, and C.” Workshop co-presenter, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), April 25, 2012.
“Defining and Using the Digital Humanities: A Roundtable.” Workshop co-presenter, Department of History, UIC, March 14, 2012.
“Disrupting and Rebuilding Lives in Post-Liberation France.” Chair/commentator, Society for French Historical Studies, April 9, 2010.
“Getting Published.” Workshop co-presenter with Dr. Eric Arnesen, Department of History, UIC. April 22, 2009.
“‘I have the honor of asking you to undertake an investigation...’ Letters of Denunciation in France, 1940-1953.” Keynote speech. Koppelman Holocaust Center, Rider University. April 19, 2009.
“Dénoncer les délateurs: l’épuration dans le Rhône, 1944-1953.” Invited paper. La dénonciation en France durant la Seconde guerre mondiale: Colloque international, Caen, France. November 2008.
“Cherish thy neighbor? Cherish thy CRL. Researching Denunciation in France.” Keynote speech. Center for Research Libraries, April 17, 2008.
“Varying Shades of Gray: Denunciation at the Frontier of Fact and Fiction.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Tucson, Arizona. October 2006.
“Denouncing the Denouncers:  A Forgotten Element of Postwar Justice, 1944-1953.” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. April 2006.
“‘Treason is a matter of dates’:  Denunciation and the Postwar French Penal Code.” Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois. May 2004.
“Cherish thy neighbor? Dénonciation – délation dans la région lyonnaise, 1944-1953.” Institut d’histoire du temps présent, Cachan, France. March 2004.
“Hungry for Justice? Judging Denouncers in the Lyon Region, 1944-1953.” Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Newport Beach, California. November 2003.
Invited respondent to “Dénoncer à Paris.” Cachan, France. November 2002.