Graduate Student

Benjamin Sawyer is currently in the 6th year of his doctoral work in the Department of History at Michigan State, and is spending the 2011/2012 academic year in Russia on a Fulbright Grant. His dissertation examines the movement of American workers and capital to the Soviet Union during the era of the New Economic Policy (NEP). Aside from Soviet history, he is interested in the histories of capitalism and communism, and the ways that economic systems produce and allocate values. Benjamin is originally from Cabarrus County, NC. He holds a BA in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2002) and a MA in History from Appalachian State University (2005).