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| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|07|26}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|06|20|1943|07|26}}
| birth_place = [[Washington, Pennsylvania]],
| death_place = [[Manchester, Connecticut]],
| occupation = {{hlist|Historian|academic}}
| alma_mater = [[Simmons College]] (BA <br/>[[Brown University]] (MA, PhD)▼
| discipline = [[Labor history]], [[women's studies]]
| notable_works = <em>Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Store</em>
| workplaces = [[University of Connecticut]]<br/>[[University of Missouri]]<br/>[[Bristol Community College]]
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'''Susan Porter Benson''' (July 26, 1943 – June 20, 2005) was an American [[historian]] and academic, specializing in [[labor history]] and [[women's studies]] as well as public and cultural history. She taught at [[Bristol Community College]] (1968–86), the [[University of Missouri]] (1986–93), and the [[University of Connecticut]] (1993–2005).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |
== Life and career ==
A native of [[Washington, Pennsylvania|Washington]], [[Pennsylvania]], Benson received her BA degree from [[Simmons University|Simmons College]] in 1964, her MA from [[Brown University]] in 1968, and her PhD from Brown in 1983. She taught as a visiting professor at the [[University of Warwick]] (1984) and [[Yale University]] (1998) and served as director of women's studies at the University of Connecticut from 1993 to 1998.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roediger |first=D. |date=2005-12-01 |title=In Memoriam: Susan Porter Benson |url=https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-4-5 |journal=Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas |language=en |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=5–6 |doi=10.1215/15476715-2-4-5 |issn=1547-6715}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
Benson served on the editorial boards of ''[[Labor History (journal)|Labor History]]'', ''[[The Journal of American History|Journal of American History]]'', ''[[American Quarterly]]'', ''[[Gender & History]]'', and ''[[Radical History Review]]''. She also served on committees of the [[Organization of American Historians]], [[Berkshire Conference of Women Historians|Berkshire Conference on the History of Women]], [[Labor and Working-Class History Association]], and Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.<ref name=":0" />
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* {{Cite book |last=Benson |first=Susan Porter |title=Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8014-5426-4 |location=Ithaca, NY |language=English |oclc=1097085047}}
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* {{Cite book |last=Benson |first=Susan Porter |url=https://www.worldcat.org
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