Past Member

Lauren Benton

Funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

History
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Lauren Benton’s research project examines widely recurring practices of violence and peacemaking in the early modern world and analyzes their effects on regional and global orders, and their relation to interpolity law.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D.
1987
Harvard University
A.B.
1978

Honors

2019
Toynbee Prize
2019
Guggenheim Fellowship

Appointments

New York University
2003–2015
Professor of History and Affiliated Professor of Law
NJIT/Rutgers University, Newark
1992–2003
Associate Prof/Professor of History