Lizabeth Cohen
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
Full Biography
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. From 2011-18 she was the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to Saving America’s Cities (2019), she is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990), winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer, and A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
