Post-Doctoral Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Academic Coordinator of the Research Unit “Re-Allocation” for the Excellenzcluster SCRIPTS: Contestations of the Liberal Script Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology (starting August 2022) Core Faculty, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute Affiliate Faculty, Department of History Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Aaron Benanav is an economic historian and social theorist. His first book, Automation and the Future of Work, appeared with Verso in 2020. His writing has appeared in the New Statesman, Nation, Dissent, Guardian, Boston Review and New Left Review, as well as in the Journal of Global History and Social Science History. Currently, Benanav holds a postdoctoral researcher position at Humboldt University of Berlin and is the academic coordinator for the research unit “Re-Allocation” in the Cluster of Excellence “SCRIPTS: Contestations of the Liberal Script.” In August 2022, Benanav will begin a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. He will also serve as one of the core faculty members at SU’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute. Benanav’s research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century global economic history, unemployment and underemployment, economic growth and development, demographic shifts, and alternative economic systems. Benanav is working on two further book projects. One concerns the idea of a “post-scarcity” economics. The other examines the global history of unemployment since 1940. Before joining Humboldt, Benanav was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD and an MA in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in History from UChicago.