Jonny Robert Lawrence

Assistant Professor

Awards and Honors

  • Runner-up for the Royal Asiatic Society’s David Morgan Prize 2022

Publications

"Imagining the Lūṭī and the People of Lūṭ" in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (2025), FirstView

"Emotional Manipulation, Coercion, and Precarity in the Tales of Jamīl and Buthayna" in Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 33 (2025): 149-180

It’s All Just Poetry: Writing ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah’s Life” in Journal of Arabic Literature 52:3–4 (2021), 321–50

Colonial South America, Identity and Race as Seen by a Chaldean Priest from Baghdad” in CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 2 (2021), 115–43

Building a Library: The Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31:1 (2021), 1–70