Peter Benson
Scientist
Peter Benson is a professor and cultural anthropologist at the University of Delaware whose work has examined tobacco production, corporate power, public health and labour. He is also the author of Stuck Moving, an experimental memoir about anthropology, academic life, bipolar disorder and addiction. [1][2]
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Career and work
Benson is a professor at the University of Delaware. He earned a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University, held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University and spent more than a decade on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis before joining Delaware. [2]
His research has examined corporate power, public health, labour and environmental harm, particularly within the tobacco industry. His 2012 book Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry received awards from the Society for the Anthropology of North America and the Southern Anthropological Society. [2]
What has been publicly discussed
“Bipolar disorder is part and parcel of who I am.”
— Peter Benson [1]
