Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the history department and the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she has taught courses in 20th-century American History, with particular attention to the intersection of social and cultural life and politics. She also oversees the Radcliffe Institute, a major center for scholarly research, creative arts and public programs. In 2007-2008, Dr. Cohen was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Previously, she taught at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University. The author of many articles and essays, Dr. Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book, MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939, for which she later won the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft Labor History Award. She is the author of A CONSUMERS' REPUBLIC: THE POLITICS OF MASS CONSUMPTION IN POSTWAR AMERICA (2003) and SAVING AMERICA'S CITIES: ED LOGUE AND THE STRUGGLE TO RENEW URBAN AMERICA IN THE SUBURBAN AGE (2019) on urban renewal in American cities after World War II. In addition, Dr. Cohen is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
