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
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
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.