Benjamin Wise
Office: 215 Keene-Flint
Phone: (352) 273-3363
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: benwise@ufl.edu
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Benjamin E. Wise (Ph.D. Rice University, 2008) is a historian of modern America, and specializes in southern history, gender and sexuality, and cultural history. He joined the History Department at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor after teaching at Harvard University and holding a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
His first book, Cosmopolitan Southerner: The Life and World of William Alexander Percy, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. His research has been supported by grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rice University Humanities Center, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, and the Regional Humanities Center at Tulane University. His articles have appeared in Southern Cultures, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The William Mitchell Law Review, and in the edited volume, Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction (2008). He is also co-author of a forthcoming book on minority vote suppression in contemporary American history.
Dr. Wise teaches courses on gender and sexuality, America in the world, southern history, the Jazz Age, and American culture.
