Contact Information
Office: 239 Powers Hall
Phone: (989) 774-3449
Email: benja1t@cmich.edu
Office Hours: Tu Th 3:30-5:30
and by appointment
Thomas Benjamin
Thomas Benjamin received his B.A. from Hanover College in Indiana and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
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).