Benjamin Fong
Asc Tchg Profr RMY+Hon Fac Fel, Barrett Honors Faculty
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Sage South 172 Tempe, AZ 85281
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Mail code: 1612Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Benjamin Y. Fong is Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College and Associate Director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University, He was previously a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago and did his graduate work at Columbia University.
His next book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, will be out with Verso in 2023. He is also the co-editor (with Craig Calhoun) of The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (Columbia, 2022) and the author of Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia, 2016).
Links to recent writing:
- "You Should Know About Labor Leader John Brophy," Jacobin, March 25, 2023.
- "The Psychedelic Renaissance Is on the Verge of an Uneasy Enlightenment," Jacobin, August 7, 2022.
- "Occupy in Retrospect," Catalyst 5:4 (Winter 2021).
- "NGOism: The Politics of the Third Sector," Catalyst 5:1 (Spring 2021).
- "Teaching Racial Justice Isn't Racial Justice," The New York Times, November 18, 2020.
- "Knowledge is Not Power: Why Cigarettes Still Appeal," Current Affairs, February 6, 2021.
- "Unfair Trade," The Outline, April 3, 2020.
Education
Ph.D. Religion, Columbia University
Courses
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 370 | History of Ideas |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 370 | History of Ideas |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2019 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2018 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |