Benjamin Wong Blonder

Assistant Professor

Benjamin Wong Blonder is assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal investigator at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Photo of a young man standing outdoors, a vast sunny landscape framed on each side by tall pine trees behind him. He has shorter, black wavy hair and is wearing a maroon colored t-shirt and a hooded windbreaker jacket. He is looking at the camera and smiling.
Benjamin Wong Blonder

Written by Benjamin Wong Blonder

  • Photo of the town of Gothic, Colorado, dating from the 1880s. Buildings stand at the foot of a rocky mountain which has been dusted with snow. Most of the buildings are small one-story cabins, and one building in the center of the photo is a large white two-story building.

    A Lynching in Gothic, Colorado?

    After coming across a newspaper notice of the lynching of a Chinese man in a long-forgotten mining camp, the author undertakes a deeply personal journey into Colorado history as he contemplates who really “belongs” in our narratives about the past—and our present.