Fall 2018 Colloquium Series: Peter Benson, Washington University in St. Louis
"Open Letters and Open Wounds: An Anthropological Love Story"
Dr. Peter Benson is an Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and the Director of American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Benson’s research looks at cultural politics and contemporary capitalism in the United States, and the racial assemblages and corporate forms that are related to the production of harm. His primary focus has been the history and ethnography of tobacco agriculture and racialized labor in the American South. He is currently writing an artistic autobiography, a medley of campus novel, pop culture compendium, and survival guide for the end of the world and life during wartime.