Benjamin Waterhouse is a historian of modern America. His scholarly research focuses on the culture and politics of business in the United States, especially since the mid-twentieth century. He supervises graduate students in fields related to business history, labor history, economic culture, and American politics since World War II. At UNC, Waterhouse offers courses in American business history, modern U.S. social and political history, the history of capitalism, and the history of finance and financial crises. His work has appeared in Aeon.co, *Financial History*, and *Jacobin*, among other outlets, and he has contributed several book reviews and op-eds to *The Washington Post*.

His first book, *Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA* (Princeton University Press, 2014) examined the role of large, national business associations—and their lobbyists—in shaping economic policy and conservative politics between the 1960s and the 1990s. His second book, *The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States* (Simon & Schuster, 2017), provided a synthetic treatment of American business, labor, and politics from the colonial period until the 2008 Financial Crisis. His third book, *One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America* (W. W. Norton, 2024), explores how so many Americans came to believe that self-employment was the key not only to personal fulfillment but also to national economic growth.