Benjamin Breen
Benjamin Breen | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin |
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Main interests | Early modern history, Portuguese history, History of medicine, Globalization, Science and technology studies |
Notable works | The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (2019) |
Benjamin Breen (born 1985) is an American historian of science and medicine. He is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] His book The Age of Intoxication (2019) was awarded the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.[2]
Education
[edit]Breen received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015.[3] His doctoral advisor was Jorge Canizares-Esguerra.[4]
Research and writing
[edit]Breen’s work centers on the history of globalization and the long-term impacts of technological and environmental change.[1] He has written on early modern globalization;[5] the Portuguese Empire;[6] Atlantic history;[7] the early modern drug trade;[8] the history of psychedelics;[9] and the eighteenth-century impostor George Psalmanazar.[5]
Between 2015 and 2017 Breen was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and a lecturer in Columbia's Department of History.[10]
He was a co-founder and editor of The Appendix[11] and writes the history blog Res Obscura and substack.[12][13]
Fellowships and awards
[edit]- 2021 The William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine[2]
- 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Award for Faculty.[14]
- 2014-15 Huntington Library visiting fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.[15]
- 2011-12 Fulbright Fellowship (Portugal).[16]
Books
[edit]- The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). LCCN 2019-32803 ISBN 978-0-8122-5178-4 hbk; Breen, Benjamin (20 December 2019). 2019 pbk edition. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9662-4.
- Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central Publishing, 2024).[17]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "History Faculty Directory". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- 1 2 "Welch Medal Winners". American Association for the History of Medicine. Archived from the original on December 14, 2023. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ "Benjamin Breen wins dissertation award, accepts Assistant Professorship at UC Santa Cruz". Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- 1 2 Breen, Benjamin (January 2013). "No Man Is an Island: Early Modern Globalization, Knowledge Networks, and George Psalmanazar's Formosa". Journal of Early Modern History. 17 (4): 391–417. doi:10.1163/15700658-12342371.
- ↑ Breen, Benjamin (2018). "Semedo's sixteen secrets Tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics". In Findlen, Paula (ed.). Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World. London: Brill. doi:10.4324/9780429461842-14. ISBN 9780429461842. S2CID 189503189.
- ↑ Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge; Breen, Benjamin (August 14, 2013). "Hybrid Atlantics: Future Directions for the History of the Atlantic World". History Compass. 11 (8): 597–609. doi:10.1111/hic3.12051.
- ↑ Breen, Benjamin (2019). The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Modern Drug Trade. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812296624.
- ↑ Breen, Benjamin (May 10, 2021). "The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World". The Historical Journal. 65: 12–29. doi:10.1017/S0018246X21000224.
- ↑ "The Society of Fellows in the Humanities Announces its New Fellows for 2015-16". Columbia University. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ Sinn, Jessica (May 24, 2013). "The Appendix: Experimental Journal Showcases History of the Arcane". Life and Letters.
- ↑ ""The Coffee Revolt of 1674"". Open Culture. April 18, 2017.
- ↑ ""Res Obscura substack"". October 4, 2023.
- ↑ ""UCSC awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants to support faculty research"". UC Santa Cruz Newscenter. 28 January 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ "Awarded Fellowships". Huntington Library. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ "Fulbright Grantee Directory". Institute of International Education/United States Department of State. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. May 2023. ISBN 978-1-5387-2237-4. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
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