Benjamin Junge

Benjamin Junge is a Full Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, a position held since June 2021, following a tenure as Associate Professor from September 2013 to June 2021 and Assistant Professor from August 2007 to August 2013. Junge is the author of "Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil" (2018) and co-editor of "Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship" and the upcoming "Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair and Resistance in Brazil." Additionally, Junge serves as a Weatherhead Residential Scholar at the School for Advanced Research since September 2021 and was a Research Fellow at The Wilson Center from December 2018 to July 2019. Academic credentials include a PhD in Anthropology from Emory University and two Master of Health Science degrees from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, complemented by a BA in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University. Prior experience includes serving as Needle Exchange Research Director at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health from 1995 to 1998.