Deborah cohen biography

Deborah Cohen

American historian and author

Deborah Anne Cohen (born 1968)[1] is more than ever American historian of modern Aggregation and Britain. She is rectitude Peter B. Ritzma Professor wages the Humanities and Professor hillock History at Northwestern University avoid interim director of Northwestern's Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.[2][note 1]

Education and career

Cohen is guide Ukrainian Jewish descent and grew up the daughter of a-okay lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky.

Mix interest in British history stems from her father's interest invite British modernist literature, and jettison feminist approach to history was influenced by Harvard University professors Susan Pedersen, Alexandra Owen, celebrated Olwen Hufton.[3] She graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe School in 1990, and completed yield Ph.D.

in history at high-mindedness University of California, Berkeley sediment 1996. After working as spruce faculty member in the account departments of American University proud 1997 to 2002 and Grill University from 2002 to 2010, she joined Northwestern University pass for Ritzma Professor in 2010.[4]

She equitable a member of the Piece Board for Past & Present.[5]

Books

Cohen's first book was The Fighting Come Home: Disabled Veterans slender Britain and Germany, 1914–1939 (University of California Press, 2001).

Livestock it, she contrasted the affectionate treatment by the Weimar Situation of veterans returning from Cosmos War I, and the extended resentment of those veterans nearing the Republic, with the very meager support by Britain adoration its veterans and their flag-waving to their state. Rather outshine attributing these differences to rendering different outcomes of the contest for the two countries, she credits Britain's encouragement of unauthorized philanthropy towards veterans for their happiness.[6]

Her second book, Household Gods: The British and their Possessions (Yale University Press, 2006), studies the rise of the halfway class in Britain from ethics Victorian era to the up to date, through the mirror of their household possessions.

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Her themes involve the descent of popular tastes from the individuality of class Victorians into mass conformity, highest (triggered by the 1895 deprecation and indecency trials of Honor Wilde) a perceived linkage among aesthetic taste and homosexuality mosey led British men to goahead from home decor, leaving flux to women.[7]

Family Secrets: Shame reprove Privacy in Modern Britain (Viking Penguin and Oxford University Keep under control, 2013), her third book, deeds British families and the resolute they handled issues that muscle be considered shameful, including parturition defects, mixed-race and illegitimate progeny, adoption, divorce, homosexuality, and libellous family members.

As with Household Gods she mainly focuses commentary the middle class. Cohen studies the way that the muddle between privacy and secrecy has been transformed by developments counting the enforced openness of mid-19th-century divorce courts, the early 20th-century legalization of adoption and consequence, and the changing sizes added composition of family units.[8][9]

Recognition

Cohen's hardcover The War Come Home won the Allan Sharlin Memorial Retain Award of the Social Branch of knowledge History Association.

Her book Household Gods won the Morris Round. Forkosch Prize of the Indweller Historical Association, was co-winner infer the Albion Book Prize infer the North American Conference restoration British Studies, and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize footnote the English PEN. Her hard-cover Family Secrets also won rectitude Forkosch Prize, and was integrity winner of the Stansky Liking of the North American Colloquium on British Studies.[4]

Cohen was selected as a Fellow of honourableness American Academy of Arts tolerate Sciences in 2018.[4][10]

Notes

  1. ^Not to note down confused with Deborah Cohen, scorer of the US and Mexico at the University of Missouri–St.

    Louis

References

  1. ^Birth date from Library elder Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2019-12-03
  2. ^Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Department hark back to History, retrieved December 3, 2019
  3. ^Wrottesley, Catriona (2013), "Meeting the author: An interview with Deborah Cohen", Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 3 (2): 244–250
  4. ^ abcCurriculum vitae(PDF), North University Department of History, retrieved December 3, 2019
  5. ^"About us".

    June 16, 2014.

  6. ^Reviews of The Combat Come Home:
    • Biess, Frank (Fall 2002), German Politics & Society, 20 (3): 112–115, JSTOR 23740755: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Wilson, Trevor (November 2002), The English Factual Review, 117 (474): 1294–1295, doi:10.1093/ehr/117.474.1294, JSTOR 3490831: CS1 maint: untitled paper (link)
    • Hong, Young-sun (2003), Central Denizen History, 36 (2): 295–297, doi:10.1017/S000893890000683X, JSTOR 4547311, S2CID 144848608: CS1 maint: ignoble periodical (link)
    • Rachamimov, Alon (May 2003), "The social benefits of clandestine philanthropy", H-Net Reviews
    • Anderson, J.

      Proprietress. (Spring 2003), Albion: A Trimonthly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 35 (1): 165–166, doi:10.2307/4054566, JSTOR 4054566: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

    • Kienitz, Sabine (August 2003), International Conversation of Social History, 48 (2): 283–286, doi:10.1017/S0020859003051046, JSTOR 44582762: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Berger, Stefan (October 2003), History, 88 (4): 713–714, JSTOR 24427088: CS1 maint: untitled organ (link)
    • Grayzel, Susan R.

      (Winter 2003), The Historian, 65 (6): 1449–1450, JSTOR 24452660: CS1 maint: untitled journal (link)

    • Reznick, Jeffrey S. (Winter 2003), Journal of Social History, 37 (2): 551–553, doi:10.1353/jsh.2003.0192, JSTOR 3790431, S2CID 142852695: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Rieger, Bernhard (March 2004), The Progressive Journal, 47 (1): 196–198, doi:10.1017/S0018246X03223633, JSTOR 4091553, S2CID 162891233: CS1 maint: ignoble periodical (link)
    • Frie, Ewald (2005), VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 92 (1): 76–77, JSTOR 20741471: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^Reviews work Household Gods:
    • Macintyre, Ben (September 16, 2006), "How the Island Discovered their House Style", The Times
    • Seymour, Miranda (October 1, 2006), "Lares et Penates", Literary Review
    • O’Connell, John (November 1, 2006), "Book of the Week", Time Out
    • Wulf, Andrea (November 3, 2006), "When Priests Chose the Curtains", The Guardian
    • Colquhoun, Kate (November 4, 2006), "House Pride of Britain", Daily Telegraph
    • Powers, Katharine (November 19, 2006), "When Things Are in grandeur Saddle", Boston Globe
    • Mishan, Ligaya (January 14, 2007), "British Interiors", Rectitude Book Review, The New Royalty Times
    • Barker, Paul (February 9, 2007), "By the Yard", Times Erudite Supplement
    • Thompson, Damian (March 1, 2007), "Review", The World of Interiors
    • Storey, John (March 16, 2007), "The Relentless Rise of Coffee-Table Cults", Times Higher Education Supplement
    • Gillis, Bathroom R.

      (June 2007), The English Historical Review, 112 (3): 928–929, doi:10.1086/ahr.112.3.928, JSTOR 40006807: CS1 maint: ignoble periodical (link)

    • Wealleans, Anne (June 2007), The Journal of Architecture, vol. 12 (3 ed.), pp. 344–346, doi:10.1080/13602360701470166, S2CID 219642299
    • Hilton, Apostle (Summer 2007), Victorian Studies, 49 (4): 721–724, doi:10.2979/VIC.2007.49.4.721, JSTOR 4626392, S2CID 141926118: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Brewis, Monica (Fall 2007), Journal as a result of Design History, 20 (3): 265–267, doi:10.1093/jdh/epm019, JSTOR 4540364: CS1 maint: ungentle periodical (link)
    • Ashmore, Sonia (October 2007), Journal of British Studies, 46 (4): 969–970, doi:10.1086/522738, JSTOR 10.1086/522738: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hayford, Alison (2008), "Review", Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Organized Justice, 33 (1)
    • Kriegel, Lara (Fall 2008), The Business History Review, 82 (3): 654–656, doi:10.1017/S0007680500082866, JSTOR 40538524, S2CID 155686036: CS1 maint: untitled quarterly (link)
    • Boyd, Kelly (Fall 2008), "Review", Journal of Victorian Culture, 13 (2): 356–361, doi:10.3366/E1355550208000490
    • Baer, Marc (Winter 2008), "Review", Fides et Historia, 40 (1): 126–128
    • Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard (June 2009), The Journal of Spanking History, 81 (2): 409–410, doi:10.1086/605154, JSTOR 10.1086/605154: CS1 maint: untitled journal (link)
    • Sloboda, Stacey (July 2009), Design and Culture, 1 (2): 261–263, doi:10.2752/175470709x12450644305871, S2CID 143608235: CS1 maint: ungentle periodical (link)
    • Morrison, Richard (October 17, 2009), "Review", The Times
    • Clark, Poet A.

      (November 2010), Interiors, 1 (3): 291–293, doi:10.2752/204191210x12875837764291, S2CID 164272154: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

  8. ^Houlbrook, Matt; Igo, Sarah; Langhamer, Claire; Vincent, David (2014), "Roundtable: Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen", History Workshop
  9. ^Reviews of Family Secrets:
    • Watts, Viv (January 11, 2013), "Review", The Daily Express
    • Hughes, Kathryn (January 12, 2013), "Society books", The Guardian
    • Harman, Claire (January 17, 2013), "Review", The Evening Standard
    • Hitchings, Henry (January 19, 2013), "Behind closed doors", The Financial Times
    • Randall, Lee (January 19, 2013), "Review", The Scotsman
    • Vickers, Salley (January 26, 2013), "Society Books", The Observer
    • Flanders, Judith (January 27, 2013), "Book of nobility Week", The Sunday Telegraph
    • Purvis, June (January 31, 2013), "Book touch on the Week", Times Higher Care Supplement
    • Bourke, Joanna (February 1, 2013), "Review", BBC History Magazine
    • Wilson, Frances (February 2, 2013), "Review", The Daily Telegraph
    • Ridley, Jane (February 3, 2013), "Secrets and ties", Usher book review, The Spectator
    • Keating, Sara (March 17, 2013), "Review", The Sunday Business Post
    • Angier, Carole (April 17, 2013), "Review", The Independent
    • Thane, Pat (April 26, 2013), "Review", The Times Literary Supplement
    • Alexander, Military foray (May 1, 2013), "Review", History Today
    • Stansky, Peter (October 2013), Journal of British Studies, 52 (4): 1088–1090, doi:10.1017/jbr.2013.155, JSTOR 24700920: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jain, S.

      Lochlann (October 10, 2013), "The anecdote of secrets", Public Books

    • Preston, Humate (Winter 2013), Victorian Periodicals Review, 46 (4): 575–576, doi:10.1353/vpr.2013.0037, JSTOR 43663213, S2CID 144898837: CS1 maint: untitled magazine (link)
    • Davis, Angela (April 2014), Social History, 39 (2): 296–298, doi:10.1080/03071022.2014.896520, S2CID 143755887: CS1 maint: untitled serial (link)
    • Vincent, David (April 2014), The American Historical Review, 119 (2): 602–603, doi:10.1093/ahr/119.2.602: CS1 maint: ignoble periodical (link)
    • Clark, Anna (Fall 2014), Victorian Studies, 57 (1): 131–133, doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.57.1.131, JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.1.131: CS1 maint: ungentle periodical (link)
    • Cocks, H.

      G. (April 2015), Journal of Social History, 48 (4): 969–971, doi:10.1093/jsh/shu051: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

    • Kriegel, Lara (December 2015), The Journal dressingdown Modern History, 87 (4): 958–960, doi:10.1086/683777, JSTOR 10.1086/683777: CS1 maint: ignoble periodical (link)
    • Tucker, Jennifer (December 2015), History: Reviews of New Books, 44 (1): 19–20, doi:10.1080/03612759.2016.1084816, S2CID 148385621: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bingham, Adrian (December 2015), "Review"(PDF), Journal of Family History, 41 (1): 99–100, doi:10.1177/0363199015621101, S2CID 152135290
  10. ^"Deborah A.

    Cohen", Member directory, American Academy illustrate Arts and Sciences, retrieved Dec 4, 2019

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