Benjamin D. Weber

Benjamin Weber is a historian and African American studies professor at the University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey Papers Project, and as a public high school teacher in Los Angeles, where he was named the NCSS Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the United States. The author of American Purgatory (The New Press, 2023), he lives in Northern California.