Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans
Born1962 (age 6263)
RelativesDaniel Nathans (father)
Awards2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2003 Koret Jewish Book Award
Academic background
EducationBA, Yale University
MA, PhD, 1995, University of California, Berkeley
ThesisBeyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with Russia, 1840-1900 (1995)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Indiana University Bloomington

Benjamin Nathans (born 1962) is an American historian. He is the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.