Benjamin Nathans is an American historian and the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Soviet history and the dissident movement. Nathans is the author of To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, which received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The book also won the 2025 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, recognizing its significance in the study of Russian and Soviet history.