Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen
Alma mater	Princeton University University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Academic
Employer	Harvard University

Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Currently, she teaches courses in 20th-century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history. She has also served as the Chair of the History Department at Harvard and director of the undergraduate program in history.

Cohen grew up in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey. She earned her A.B. degree from Princeton University, and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with labor historian David Brody and cultural historians Lawrence Levine and Paula S. Fass, among others.

Cohen worked as a secondary school teacher and in history and art museums. She rose from the position of assistant to associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University between 1986 and 1992 and served as associate professor and full professor at New York University between 1992 and 1997, before joining the faculty at Harvard. She was appointed the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University for the 2007-08 academic year, and is an honorary fellow of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute.

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