Deborah Cohen

Deborah Cohen is a historian of Mexico and the United States in the twentieth century. Her work brings questions of race, gender, imperialism, modernity, labor, and immigration to bear on nation-state formation and other political projects. Born in Chicago,she studied at the University of Illinois (B.S.) and the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D). She now resides in Saint Louis and is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She previously taught at Chicago, Cornell, Mt. Holyoke, and Bowling Green State.