Rich Benjamin

Russell Sage Foundation (New York, U.S.A)

Daniel Fignolé: Black/Italian exiles, the word and the world

2019-2020: Fall

Rich Benjamin is a scholar researching democracy and citizenship; whiteness and nationalism; race and migration; and demographic change, often in comparative “western” contexts. He is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, selected as an Editor’s Choice by Booklist and The American Library Association. This groundbreaking study is one of few to have illuminated in advance the rise of white anxiety and white nationalism in contemporary public US life. 

Benjamin’s cultural and political analysis appear regularly in public debate, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and National Public Radio (NPR). His scholarly research has received support from Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Brown University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Benjamin was recently a Fellow in the literary arts at the Bellagio Center (Italia), Rockefeller Foundation. Benjamin received his BA from Wesleyan University in Government and Literature and his PhD from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature.

Web page: http://richbenjamin.com/