As Assistant Director for National Prestigious Scholarships, Dr. Benjamin Fagan works with students from across the university as they apply for a variety of major awards. As a former Fulbright scholar, he knows firsthand the impact that such scholarships can have on the lives of students.
Fagan has a bachelor’s degree in English and honors from the University of Iowa and received his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia.
Fagan’s scholarship focuses on early African American literature and print culture. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016), co-editor (with Kathleen Diffley) of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (University of Georgia Press, 2019), and editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His most recent book, Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom, is scheduled to be published in spring 2026 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
