articles

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Archives in Stone: Cemeteries, Burial and Urban Ownership in Late Colonial Ghana,” The Journal of Urban History (2024), 1-16.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500-1957,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 65.2 (2023), 296-320.

  • Winner of the 2024 Jane Burbank Prize for Global Legal History from the American Society for Legal History

  • Winner of the 2024 Walter D. Love Prize for British Studies from the North American Conference on British Studies

  • Winner of the 2024 Gender Article Prize from the Berkshires Conference of Women Historians

  • Runner-up for the 2024 Carol Gold Award from the Coordinating Council on Women’s History

Lateef, Husain and Sarah Balakrishnan. “Afrocentrism: A Perspective of Positive Development Among Black Youth,” Journal of Applied Youth Studies 6.3 (2023), 1-13.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Building the Ancestral Public: Cemeteries and the Necropolitics of Property in Colonial Ghana,” The Journal of Social History 55.2 (2022), 1-25.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “The Jailhouse Divergence: Why Debtors’ Prisons Disappeared in 19th Century Europe and Flourished in West Africa,” Punishment & Society (2022), 1-17.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Imperial Policing and the Antinomies of Power in Early Colonial Ghana,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 53.2 (2020), 173-192.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Of Debt and Bondage: From Slavery to Prisons in the Gold Coast (Ghana), c. 1807-1957,” The Journal of African History 61.1 (2020), 3-21.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Afrocentrism Revisited: Africa in the Philosophy of Black Nationalism,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 22.1 (2020), 71-88.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies,” History Compass 15.2 (2017).

Mbembe, Achille and Sarah Balakrishnan. “Pan-African Legacies, Afropolitan Futures,” Transition: An International Review 120.1 (2016), 28-37.

book chapters

Balakrishnan, Sarah. “Afropolitanism and the End of Black Nationalism,” The Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, ed. Gerard Delanty (New York: Routledge 2018): 575-585.

book reviews

Balakrishnan, Sarah. Review of Paul Glent Grant, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity, in African Studies Review (2022), 1-3.

Balakrishnan, Sarah. Review of Lisa A. Lindsay’s, Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa, in Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists (2020).