Benjamin Breen Last updated August 20, 2025 20th and 21st-century American historian
Benjamin Breen (born 1985) is an American historian of science and medicine and an Associate Professor of History at the University of California,Santa Cruz . [ 1] His book The Age of Intoxication (2019) was awarded the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine . [ 2]
His second book,Tripping on Utopia:Margaret Mead,the Cold War,and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science , [ 3] delves into the history of psychedelic science from the 1930s through the 1970s and has garnered critical acclaim. Publications such as The New Yorker, [ 4] The New York Times, [ 5] and Publishers Weekly [ 6] have all provided favorable reviews. In addition,Breen's insights have reached a wider audience through his appearance on NPR's Fresh Air in an interview with Terry Gross. [ 7]
Books The Age of Intoxication:Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press,2019). LCCN 2019-32803 ISBN 978-0-8122-5178-4 Breen, Benjamin (20 December 2019). 2019 pbk edition ISBN 978-0-8122-9662-4 Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central Publishing, 2024). [ 33] References 1 2 "History Faculty Directory" . University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . 1 2 "Welch Medal Winners" . American Association for the History of Medicine. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (Jan 16, 2024). Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science 384. ISBN 9781538722374 . Retrieved 31 January 2024 . ↑ Talbot, Margaret (2024-01-22). "When America First Dropped Acid" . The New Yorker . ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2024-02-21 . ↑ Shane, Charlotte (2024-01-16). "Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-02-21 . ↑ "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen" . www.publishersweekly.com . Retrieved 2024-02-21 . ↑ "The Birth of Psychedelic Science" . NPR . 16 January 2024. ↑ "Benjamin Breen wins dissertation award, accepts Assistant Professorship at UC Santa Cruz" . Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine . Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) . University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . 1 2 Breen, Benjamin (January 2013). "No Man Is an Island: Early Modern Globalization, Knowledge Networks, and George Psalmanazar's Formosa" . Journal of Early Modern History . 17 (4): 391– 417. doi :10.1163/15700658-12342371 . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (2018). "Semedo's sixteen secrets Tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics". In Findlen, Paula (ed.). Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World doi :10.4324/9780429461842-14 . ISBN 9780429461842 S2CID 189503189 . ↑ Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge; Breen, Benjamin (August 14, 2013). "Hybrid Atlantics: Future Directions for the History of the Atlantic World" . History Compass . 11 (8): 597– 609. doi :10.1111/hic3.12051 . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (2019). The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Modern Drug Trade . University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812296624 ↑ Breen, Benjamin (May 10, 2021). "The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World" . The Historical Journal . 65 : 12– 29. doi : 10.1017/S0018246X21000224 . ↑ "The Society of Fellows in the Humanities Announces its New Fellows for 2015-16" . Columbia University. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ "All stories by Benjamin Breen" . The Atlantic . 29 October 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (October 22, 2014). "Material Objects: Lessons from Rare Book School" . The Paris Review Daily . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (April 11, 2014). "Under the Influence" . Aeon . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (February 19, 2020). " . The Public Domain Review . ↑ Breen, Benjamin (March 15, 2021). "Our Strange Addiction" . Lapham's Quarterly . ↑ "Recently by Benjamin Breen" . Slate . Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ Fromson, Daniel (February 14, 2014). " . The New Yorker . ↑ DenHoed, Andrea (November 1, 2013). " . The New Yorker . ↑ Schwarz, Hunter (May 4, 2015). "The many times Star Wars became a part of American politics" . The Washington Post . ↑ "Snail water, beans and pies: tasting 17th century food via art" . Radio New Zealand . March 25, 2018. ↑ Beaurepaire-Hernandez, Pierre-Yves (October 14, 2020). "Pourquoi le trafic de drogue ne date pas d'hier" (in French). Le Point. ↑ Sinn, Jessica (May 24, 2013). "The Appendix: Experimental Journal Showcases History of the Arcane" . Life and Letters . ↑ " . Open Culture . April 18, 2017. ↑ " . October 4, 2023. ↑ " . UC Santa Cruz Newscenter . 28 January 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ "Awarded Fellowships" . Huntington Library. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ "Fulbright Grantee Directory" . Institute of International Education/United States Department of State. Retrieved May 29, 2021 . ↑ Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science ISBN 978-1-5387-2237-4 . Retrieved October 4, 2023 .
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