Research and Teaching Interests
Professor Benjamin teaches courses in Latin American history as well as a course on the Atlantic world in the Age of Empire. His research focuses on Mexico and the Atlantic world.

Recent Publications
The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans and Indians & Their Shared History, 1400-1900 (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, Thomas Benjamin, Editor-in-Chief, with five associate editors (Macmillan Thomson/Gale, 3 volumes, 2007).

La Revolución Mexicana: Memoria, Mito e Historia (México: Taurus, 2003).

The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire, Benjamin, Timothy Hall, and David Rutherford, editors (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

La Revolución: Mexico’s Great Revolución as Memory, Myth, and History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000).