Professor Deborah Cohen FBA

Deborah Cohen's research interests run the methodological gamut, from social science-inspired comparative history to biography.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Honours
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
History

Summary

Deborah Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University and director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.  Her interests run the methodological gamut, from social science-inspired comparative history to biography. 

Trained as a modern Europeanist, she has recently published on American foreign correspondents and Anglo-Argentines and the history of family capitalism.  Although her subjects have varied, a few thematic interests run through:  state and society, the public histories of private lives, and material culture.  Cohen writes regularly for The Atlantic on subjects ranging from war photography to punk rock.

Current post

Leopold Professor of History and Director, Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University

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