Bunting, Annie

Dr. Bunting is Professor of Law & Society (Dept. of Social Science, York University) and York Research Chair (YRC Tier 1) in International Gender Justice & Peacebuilding (2024-29) . Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods; feminist international law; contemporary slavery; and SGBV in war. From 2010-2022, she directed an international research collaboration, Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities, with community-based researchers and women’s rights scholars in the DRC, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England.
She is the co-editor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (Ohio Univ. Press, 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts; Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (Univ. of British Columbia Press, 2017; Cornell Univ. Press, 2018) with Joel Quirk; and Research as more than extraction: Knowledge production and sexual violence in post conflict African societies (Ohio Univ. Press, 2023) with Allen Kiconco and Joel Quirk. She has a forthcoming volume in the Hart Onati Series, Just Methods: Communities of Practice in Law and Society Research, coming out of an IILS workshop.
Area(s) of expertise: International law; feminist theory; contemporary slavery