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Benjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz. From July 2015 to January 2017 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a lecturer in Columbia’s history department. He grew up in California and earned his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, where his doctoral advisor was Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. His first book, The Age of Intoxication, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. A second book, Tripping on Utopia, will be published by Grand Central in 2024. He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his partner Roya Pakzad and their daughter Yara.
