Deborah Cohen Department of History Northwestern University 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208
[email protected] Employment 2010- Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Department of History, Northwestern University 2008-2010 Professor, Department of History, Brown University 2004-2008 Associate Professor, Department of History, Brown University 2002-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University 1997-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of History, American University Education 1993-96 University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., History, 1996 1 1991-93 University of California, Berkeley, M.A., History, 1993 1986-90 Harvard-Radcliffe, A.B., summa cum laude, 1990 Publications Books Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain. London: Viking Penguin, January 2013; New York: Oxford University Press, April 2013. • Book of the Week, Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Ed, Public Pick [non- fiction, 2013], Public Books Reviewed in the Guardian, the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Telegraph, the Sunday Mail, the Mail, the Independent, the Daily Express, Times Higher Ed, The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine, History Today, the Literary Review, the Spectator [lead review] Household Gods: The British and their Possessions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. • Awarded the Forkosch Prize by the American Historical Association for the best book in English in the field of British history since 1485 • Awarded the Albion Prize (co-winner) by the North American Conference on British Studies for the best book on Britain after 1800 • Short-listed for English PEN’s Hessell-Tiltman prize, awarded to the best work of history covering a period before World War II The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939.