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Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/cohen-named-dean-of-radcliffe/ )〕 Currently, she teaches courses in 20th-century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history. She has also served as the Chair of the History Department at Harvard and director of the undergraduate program in history. ==Life and academic career== Cohen grew up in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey.〔Oshinsky, David M. ("Charge It!" ), ''The New York Times'', March 2, 2003. Accessed September 15, 2011. "Cohen belongs to the postwar baby boom generation. Raised in Paramus, N.J., an epicenter of tract housing and highway shopping malls, she has used the experience of the Garden State to probe the larger issues of postwar economic change."〕 She earned her A.B. degree from Princeton University, and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with labor historian David Brody and cultural historians Lawrence Levine and Paula Fass, among others. Cohen worked as a secondary school teacher and in history and art museums. She rose from the position of assistant to associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University between 1986 to 1992 and served as associate professor and full professor at New York University between 1992 to 1997, before joining the faculty at Harvard. She was appointed the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University for the 2007-08 academic year, and is an honorary fellow of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute. She is best known for ''Making a New Deal'', a book that pioneered the social history of 20th-century American politics. In that book, a case study of Chicago, Cohen argues that working-class urban residents found a common identity as Americans and as New Dealers as the result of their incorporation into a burgeoning mass culture and especially as the result of the devastating effects of the Depression on urban ethnic stores, businesses, and institutions. Cohen also offers a provocative argument about the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations during the 1930s. She contends that a working-class "culture of unity" broke down ethnic divisions and animosities and made possible widescale industrial unionization. Cohen's analysis of working-class popular culture (shopping, movie-going, and radio) during the 1920s was a pioneering effort in the study of vernacular consumerism, a theme that she developed with more of a political focus in her most recent book, ''A Consumers' Republic''. Through a deeply documented history of urban and suburban New Jersey, embedded in a larger analysis about the transformation of post-New Deal liberalism, Cohen explores the ways that people's identities as consumers shaped their politics after World War II. Building on her interests on architecture, planning, and the built environment, the book is particularly noteworthy for its engagement with earlier work on the politics of suburbanization by scholars like Kenneth T. Jackson. Cohen explores such topics as the rise of shopping malls, the emergence of a consumers' rights movement, and the relationship of consumerism to civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century. ''A Consumer's Republic'' begins with her recollections of growing up in suburban New Jersey and draws from extensive research in archives in the Garden State. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lizabeth Cohen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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