AARON BENANAV

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Department of History
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Aaron Benanav is a sociologist, economic historian, and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. He also serves as a senior research associate at SU’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute.

Benanav first book, Automation and the Future of Work, appeared with Verso in 2020. His writing has been featured in the Nation, Guardian, New Statesman, Boston Review, New Left Review, and Dissent.

Benanav’s research interests include automation and the future of work, unemployment and underemployment, economic growth and development, critical theory, and alternative economic systems.

Currently, Benanav is working on two further book projects. One concerns the idea of a “post-scarcity” economics. The other examines the global history of unemployment since 1940.

Before joining Syracuse University, Benanav was a member of the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD and an MA in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in History from the University of Chicago.

Benanav serves on the editorial boards of New Left Review and International Labor and Working Class History.

contact: aaron.benanav@gmail.com
or twitter: @abenanav

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