Lizabeth Cohen
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Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in Harvard University's history department. Currently, she teaches courses in twentieth-century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history, and is the director of the undergraduate program in history. Before Harvard, she was a secondary level teacher, worked in history and art museums, and taught at Carnegie Mellon University from 1986 to 1992 and New York University from 1992 to 1997. Lizabeth grew up around metropolitan New York, earned her A.B. from Princeton University, and later received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
[edit] Works and awards
She has published award-winning works, including:
- (Article) "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s," (1989) which won the Constance Roarke Prize of the American Studies Association
- (Book) Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1930, (1990) which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Labor History Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- (Book) A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, (2003) about suburbanization and the way that people's identities as consumers became their primary political nexus after World War II.
[edit] Sources
Bailey, Thomas, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen (2002). The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, 12th Ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. ISBN 0-618-24732-7.
