Ben Zdencanovic (pronounced sten-CHAN-oh-vich) is an award-winning historian, author, policy analyst, and educator.

He is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ben is a historian of the United States in the world, domestic and international politics, and economic and social policy. He has a particular interest in the relationship between U.S. global power and the politics of redistribution and the welfare state.

Ben earned his PhD with distinction from the Department of History at Yale in 2019, where his dissertation was the winner of the Edwin W. Small Prize for outstanding work in United States history. Prior to coming to UCLA, Ben was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs and an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago.

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