Ben Marley
Associate Professor
Berkey Hall, 414A
Biography
Ben Marley, Ph.D., is a teaching-focused Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. He was the recipient of the 2020 Faculty Teaching Innovation Award. He received his Ph.D. (2018) in Sociology at Binghamton University where his dissertation, titled Agricultural Revolutions in America’s Heartland: The Corn Belt and the Making of American Capitalism, focused on the origins, development, and crisis of the Midwestern family farm in the world-system. Dr. Marley
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PhD, Binghamton University 2018
Publications
R&R Marley, Benjamin. “Agrarian Transition in the Heart of America’s Heartland,” Journal of Agrarian Change. (in preparation for resubmission)
2016 Marley, Benjamin. “From War on Poverty to War on Coal: Nature, Capital, and Work in Appalachia,” Environmental Sociology, 1 (2), 88-100.
2016 Marley, Benjamin. “The Coal Crisis in Appalachia: Commodity Frontiers, Crises, and the Geographies of Capital,” Journal of Agrarian Change, 16 (2), 225-254. (winner of the Terence K. Hopkins Award for best paper, Political Economy of the World-System section of the ASA). Reprinted for Virtual Special Issue: “Political Ecology of Agrarian Change,” Journal of Agrarian Change. 2016.