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Deborah Cohen's research focuses upon the history of modern Britain and Europe. Her first book, The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939, was published by the University of California in 2001, and awarded the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Prize. Her second book, Household Gods: The British and their Possessions, was published by Yale University Press in 2006; it won the American Historical Association's Forkosch Prize for the best book on Britain after 1485 and was the co-winner of the North American Conference on British Studies' Albion prize for the best book on Britain after 1800.
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Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Deborah Cohen received her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1990, and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1996. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies (Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is currently working on a book about families and social stigma in modern Britain. |
 DEBORAH COHEN http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Deborah_Cohen On The Web: "Dulce et Decorum Est," The Guardian Household Gods reviewed by Andrea Wulf in The Guardian Household Gods -- Book of the Week in Time Out (London) Household Gods reviewed by Kate Colquhoun in The Daily Telegraph Household Gods reviewed by Katherine Powers in the Boston Globe Household Gods in the New York Times Radio Interview with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina on The Book Show Household Gods reviewed by Ligaya Mishan in the New York Times Household Gods in the International Herald Tribune Household Gods reviewed by Paul Barker in the TLS Household Gods reviewed by Ben Macintyre in The Times [London] Household Gods reviewed by John Storey in the Times Higher Education Supplement Radio Interview with Alan Saunders on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Household Gods in Slate Are you Deborah Cohen? Click here to edit your research profile. |
