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Dr Gavin Benke

Centre for Capitalism Studies Visiting Research Fellow, 19 May 2025 - 30 June 2025

Gavin Benke is an historian of capitalism with a particular focus on the intersection of language, culture and U.S. corporations. He is the author of Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism and Capitalism and Individualism in America. His current book project on corporate futurism is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

Dr Benke holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.