Peter Benson

Title:	Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Degree:	PHD, Harvard University MA, Harvard University BS, Vanderbilt University
Dept:	Anthropology
Office:	McMillan Hall 205
Phone:	(314) 935-3859
E-mail:	pbenson@wustl.edu

Courses
Introduction to Public Health, Anthropology and Existentialism, Tobacco: History, Anthropology, and Politics of a Global Epidemic, Capitalism and Culture: New Perspective in Economic Anthropology

Research Interests
Peter Benson was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His research interests include medical anthropology, public health, political economy, tobacco, agriculture, transnational migration and social theory, especially intersections between phenomenology, existentialism, and cultural anthropology.

Selected Publications
Peter Benson. (2008) El Campo: Faciality and Structural Violence in Farm Labor Camps. Cultural Anthropology 23(4):589-629.

Peter Benson (2008) Good Clean Tobacco: Philip Morris, Biocapitalism, and the Social Course of Stigma in North Carolina. American Ethnologist 35(3):357-379.

Fischer, Edward F., and Peter Benson (2006) Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Kleinman, Arthur, and Peter Benson (2006) Anthropology in the Clinic: The Cultural Competency Problem and How to Fix It. PLoS Medicine 3(10): e294.

Benson, Peter (2005) Rooting Culture: Nostalgia, Urban Revitalization, and the Ambivalence of Community at the Ballpark. City and Society 17(1): 93-125.