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Gavin Benke

Boston University
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Business and Culture, Corporations and the Environment, Energy, Financial Services

Gavin Benke is the author of Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University. Previously, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University and the University of South Florida. He received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Service to the BHC
Ralph Gomory Prize Committee 2022 - 2025 [Chair 2023 - 2024]


Recent Conference Participation
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
Discussant, Doing Healthcare in the Public Interest
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "“We are all prisoners of our perceptions” – The Institute for the Future and Monsanto Contemplate Environmentalism in the 1970s"
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Presenter, "Multinational Corporations and Post-national Thinking in the 1970s"
2020 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "How Imagining “the Future” Blurred the Lines between Business and Government in the 1960s and 1970s"

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