Justin Bengry

Justin Bengry is a leading queer historian and the author of numerous publications in the academic and mainstream press. For more than two decades he has written and spoken about gender & sexuality, social & cultural history, capitalism & consumer culture.

Justin is active across digital platforms and co-founded the world’s leading history of sexuality blog NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. He is also on the advisory board of History Workshop, the digital magazine of History Workshop Journal.

Justin completed a PhD at the University of California in 2010 after which he held postdocs in Canada and the UK. He was Lead Researcher for Historic England’s pioneering digital history initiative Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Queer Beyond London.

Justin’s book The Pink Pound: Capitalism and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Britain is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. He is represented by Emma Bal at The Madeleine Milburn Agency.