Benjamin Goossen

Benjamin W. Goossen, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Assistant Professor of International History at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His research and teaching concern European and international history, the history of science and technology, and environmental history. Goossen is currently completing a book, Project Planet: A History of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year, which examines the global expansion and contested nature of Earth science during the Cold War and collapse of European empires. He is the author of Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2017), and his scholarship has appeared in journals including Antisemitism Studies, Contemporary European History, German Studies Review, and the Journal of Global History. Support for Goossen’s scholarship has come from institutions including the American Historical Association, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM), the Fulbright Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Goossen holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Harvard University.