Benjamen Goff

Ben Goff is an Assistant Teaching Professor for the faculty of the School of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he teaches in the Applied Military and Veterans Studies Program. He offers courses on military history, military ethics and law, strategy, warfare and technology, and veterans' welfare. 

His background is in military history and the history of early modern healthcare. He studies eighteenth-century French military hospitals to better understand the dynamics of early, large-scale, state-sponsored healthcare systems. In particular, he is concerned with medical entrepreneurs, military contracting, profiteering, state financing, and healthcare administration.

Previously, Ben was a Horward Fellow with the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University, where he graduated with his PhD in 2023. He then held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History Department at the University of Saskatchewan, and worked as an Adjunct Professor with the U.S. Naval War College between 2023 and 2025.

He has won research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Society for French Historical Studies, the International Commission on Military History, and the Newberry Library, among others. Finally, he received the Joe Richardson Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award at Florida State University in 2021, and his work has appeared in leading journals such as War in History.