Benjamin Nathans
Benjamin Nathans | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) |
| Relatives | Daniel Nathans (father) |
| Awards | 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2003 Koret Jewish Book Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, Yale University MA, PhD, 1995, University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with Russia, 1840-1900 (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University 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.