Benjamin G. Martin

A graduate of the University of Chicago (AB, 1996) and Columbia University (PhD, 2006), Benjamin G. Martin is associate professor (universitetslektor) in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. In 2025-26 he will be on research leave, supported by a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens jubileumsfond to complete a book manuscript, tentatively entitled: Defining Culture, Debating World Order: An International History of the Culture Concept, 1935-1990.

Since 2017 his research was supported by leading two research projects: “The Culture of International Society,” funded by RJ (2017-2020) and “International Ideas at UNESCO,” funded by the Swedish Research Council (2020-2024).

His publications have examined the intersection of culture and politics in international history, first with a special focus on the international and European visions of Germany's Nazis and Italy's fascists — in particular in The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016) — and more recently through the use of digital methods to answer questions about the political and intellectual history of cultural diplomacy.

From 2010 to 2017 he was director of the Euroculture Program, an Erasmus Mundus MA program on contemporary European society, politics, and culture in global perspective. Prior to coming to Uppsala, Martin was Assistant Professor of History at San Francisco State University from 2008 to 2010, where he taught on the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Europe.

A current CV can be provided on request. Some publications and papers are available at Ben Martin’s page at academia.edu.