Bennett Parten is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.

He was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians in 2024. He was also named the Georgia Author of the Year for History in 2026.

Bennett is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in History at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Zocalo Public Square, and The Civil War Monitor, among others. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.