Bench Ansfield

Bench Ansfield is an American historian of racial capitalism, the political economy of risk and U.S. cities, and an assistant professor of history at Temple University. They earned a PhD in American studies at Yale, where their dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize and the Business History Conference's Krooss Prize, and held fellowships at Harvard and Dartmouth before joining Temple in 2024. Their book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.