Prof. Thomas Benjamin

Contact Information

Office: 239 Powers Hall
Phone: (989) 774-3449
Email: benja1t@cmich.edu

Spotlight on Faculty Research

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 (2007).

La Revolución: Mexico's Greatest Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History (2000, 2003 edition in Mexico).

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).


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