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. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

• Awarded the Allan Sharlin Memorial Prize by the Social Science History Association for the best book in social science history

Edited Book

Co-edited, with Maura O’Connor. Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Why Did The House Fail: Or: Demand and Supply Before the Modern Home Magazine, 1880s-1900s,” Journal of Design History 18:1 (2005): 35-42.

2 “Who Was Who? Jews and Race in Turn-of-the-Century Britain,” Journal of British Studies 41: 4 (October, 2002): 460-483.

“Private Lives in Public Spaces: Marie Stopes, the Mothers’ Clinics and the Practice of Contraception,” History Workshop Journal 35 (Spring, 1993): 95-116.

Book Chapters and Solicited Essays

“Introduction: Comparative History, Cross-National History, Transnational History – From Theory to Practice,” in Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective, eds. Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor. New York: Routledge, 2004: ix-xxiii.

“Comparative History: Buyer Beware,” in Comparison and History: Europe in Cross- National Perspective, eds. Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor. New York: Routledge, 2004: 57-70.

“Will to Work: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939,” in Disabled Veterans in History, ed. David Gerber. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000: 295-321.

“Civil Society in the Aftermath of the Great War,” in The Paradoxes of Civil Society: Great Britain and Germany, ed. Frank Trentmann. London: Berghahn Books, 1999: 352-68.

“Kriegsopfer und Heldentod,” in Der Tod als Maschinist: Der Industrialisierte Krieg 1914/1918, ed. Bernd Ulrich. Osnabrück: Museum Industriekultur, 1998: 216-227.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

“The Camera and the Great War,” The Atlantic [forthcoming, December 2013].

“If You Want to Keep a Secret, Tell Your Mother,” Newsweek/Daily Beast, 12 May 2013.

“Family Secrets: A History of Hidden Shame,” Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2013.

“Marriage Guidance: Kissing and Telling,” History Today 63:2 (February, 2013), p. 6. “Downton’s Family Secrets,” Oxford University Press blog.

“From Gay Marriage to Cougar Wives: The Victorians Have Much to Teach Us,” Guardian, 21 December 2012.

“Children Who Disappeared in Britain,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum 92:3 (Fall 2012): 12-14.

3 “Not Normal, But Less Bizarre” [Room for Debate], New York Times, 16 November 2010.

“A Generation Found [Review of Virginia Nicholson’s Singled Out],” New York Sun, 2 January 2008.

“Dulce et Decorum Est,” The Guardian [on-line] (London), 9 November 2001.

“The War Wounded Who Had to Fight to Grieve,” The Independent on Sunday (London), Rear Window Column, 6 November 1995.

Book reviews for History Today, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Modern History, Historical Journal, H-Asia, German History, Literary Review.

Fellowships and Prizes

2009-10: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2009-10: ACLS/Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars 2008-9: Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library 2008: National Humanities Center Fellowship [declined] 2008: Huntington Library Fellowship [declined] 2008: Salomon Research Award, Brown University 2007: Forkosch Prize, American Historical Association 2007: Albion Prize, North American Conference on British Studies 2005-6: Howard Fellowship in Social Sciences 2003: Salomon Research Award, Brown University 2001: Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities 2001-2: National Humanities Center Fellowship 2001: Huntington Library Fellowship [declined] 2001: Mellon Fellowship, Newberry Library [declined] 2000: Senate Research Award, American University 1999: Conference Grant, German Historical Institute 1998: Mellon Research Award, American University 1997: Senate Research Award, American University 1997: German American Research Network Grant 1996-7: Conant Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University 1996: Michigan Society of Fellows [declined] 1996: Columbia Society of Fellows [declined] 1991-6: Mellon Fellowship 1994-5: German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship 1993: Council for European Studies (Columbia) Fellowship 1991-6: Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study 1991: Jacob Javits Fellowship [declined]

4 Professional Service

2012: National Fulbright Selection Committee, United Kingdom Awards 2011-14: Forkosch Prize Committee, American Historical Association 2010-13: Council, North American Conference on British Studies 2010: Selection Committee, National Humanities Center 2009: Local Arrangements, Northeast Conference on British Studies 2009: Grant Reviewer, Cullman Center, NYPL 2008-9: Co-Curator, Exhibition, “Choosing the Chintz,” Geffrye Museum, London 2007-11: Nominating Committee, Conference Group in European History, American Historical Association 2008: Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2007: Allan Sharlin Book Prize Committee, Social Science History Association 2006-9: Editorial Board, Journal of Modern History 2005-6: Conference Committee, Council for European Studies, Columbia 2004: Seminar Leader, DuPont seminar in Material Culture, National Humanities Center, “Tales Things Tell” 2001-8: Grant Reviewer, National Humanities Center 2002: Co-organized (with Peter Mandler) conference on “Art and Society in the Long Nineteenth Century,” German Historical Institute. 2002: Mentor, Young Scholars’ Forum, German Historical Institute 2001: Mentor, Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Georgetown University 2001: Co-organized (with Maura O’Connor) conference on “Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective,” Taft Foundation and German Historical Institute.

Manuscript reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Modern History, Victorian Studies.

Departmental/University Service

2013-4: Associate Chair, History Department 2013-4: Member, Tenure Committee for Scott Sowerby 2013-4 and Chair, British Studies Graduate Cluster [organized first annual Cluster 2011-2: conference] 2012: Chair, Graduate Prizes Committee, History Department 2011-2: Member, History of Science Search Committee, History Department 2011: Member, Tenure Committee for Susan Pearson 2010: Member, 20th c. U.S. Senior Search Committee, History Department 2008-9: Chair, Tenure Committee for Ethan Pollock, History Department 2007-8: Member, Senior Search Committee, History Department 2007-8: Member, Tenure Committee for Caroline Castiglione, Italian Studies 2007-8: Member, Re-Appointment Committee for Ethan Pollock 2007-8 Member, Board of Gender & Sexuality

5 2007-8 Faculty Associate, Watson Institute [Politics, Culture & Identity] 2006-7: Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern Greek and Balkan History 2006-7: Member, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor of European History 2006-7: Chair, Re-Appointment Committee for Vazira Zamindar 2006-7: Concentration Advisor, History Department 2006: Member, Tenure Committee for Robert Self 2003-4: Faculty Executive Committee 2003-4: History Department, Academic Priorities Committee 2003-4: History Department, Graduate Committee 2003-4: History Department, Undergraduate Review Committee 2003-4: First-year Advisor 2002-4: Affirmative Action Representative, History Department 2003: Chair, Re-Appointment Committee for Vasco da Gama Visiting Assistant Professorship

PhDs Advised

Anne Rush (American University, Ph.D. 2004), Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland – College Park. Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Mo Moulton (Brown University, Ph.D. 2010), Interim Director of Studies, History & Literature, Harvard University. Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming [2014].

Daniel Loss (Brown University, Ph.D. 2013), Lecturer, History & Literature, Harvard University. “The Afterlife of Christian England, 1944 to the Present.”

Brian Druchniak, Ph.D. in progress, Northwestern University: “Giving the Devil His Due: Nationalism, Reputation, and the Law in Imperial Britain.”

Emma Goldsmith, Ph.D. in progress, Northwestern University: “English Port Cities”

Emily van Buren, Ph.D. in progress, Northwestern University.

Invited Lectures

Plenary Address, East India Company at Home Conference, London, 10 July 2014.

“Family Secrets,” The Swenson Lecture, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, 13 March 2014.

“Shame: A Human History,” Chicago Humanities Festival, 13 October 2013.

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“Family Secrets and Families: Roundtable with Emma Brockes and Steve Luxenberg,” Newberry Library, 1 October 2013.

“Family Secrets,” History Department, University of California, Berkeley, 19 September 2013.

“Family Secrets: Nature and Nurture, Shame and Guilt,” Tavistock Clinic, 15 July 2013.

“The Family Discussion Bureau,” Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, 2 July 2013.

“Normansfield’s Family Secrets,” Langdon Down Museum, 24 June 2013.

“Family Novels – Roundtable with Julie Orringer and Colm Tóibín,” Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia, 1 May 2013.

“Families and Secrets, Shame and Love – Conversation with Andrew Solomon,” New York Public Library, 29 April 2013.

“Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain,” Yale University, Department of History, 6 March 2013.

“Other People’s Bastards” and “The Children Who Disappeared,” Edmondson Lectures, Baylor University, 26 and 27 February 2013.

“Conversation with Tom Laqueur,” The Moment of British Women’s History Conference, Columbia University, 9 February 2013.

“Family Secrets,” Conference of Europeanists’ Lecture, American Historical Association, 5 January 2013.

“The Repressive Family,” Columbia Seminar in British History, 16 February 2012.

“Queer Uncles: Homosexuality and British Families, 1900-1960,” Rutgers University, Department of History and Rutgers Center for British Studies, 3 November 2011; Society of Fellows, Columbia University, 16 February 2012.

“Talking It Out: Privacy, Secrecy and Confession in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain,” Plenary Address, Northeast Conference on British Studies, Worcester, MA, 29 October 2011.

“Other People’s Bastards: Adoption and Illegitimacy in Britain, 1910-1967.” British History Seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard, 31 March 2011.

“From the Open Secret to the Right to Privacy,” British History Seminar, Institute for

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“Other People’s Bastards: Adoption and Illegitimacy in Britain, 1910-1967,” Yale University, British History Colloquium, 5 April 2010.

“Talking It Out: Secrecy and the Family in Post-1945 Britain,” Yale University, History of Science Colloquium, 2 April 2010.

“The Nabob’s Secrets,” Indiana University, Departments of History and English, 4 March 2010.

“Family Secrets in Modern Britain: The Children Who Disappeared,” Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University, 4 February 2010.

“Children Who Disappeared: Mental Disability and the Family in Britain, 1870-1960.” Annenberg Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, 23 April 2009.

“Family Secrets: The Rise of Confessional Culture in Britain.” The New York Public Library, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. 18 March 2009.

“Household Gods: The British and their Possessions.” The Geffrye Museum, London. 10 February 2009.

“Choosing the Chintz: Men, Women and the Interior,” The Geffrye Museum, London. 8 February 2009.

“From Sin to Self-Expression: the British and their Possessions,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. 9 April 2007.

“Abundance versus Austerity: Victorian Consumerism,” History Department, Birmingham University, 9 November 2005.

“Household Gods: The British and their Possessions,” Cultural History Seminar, Cambridge University, 12 October 2005

“Consumerism after the Age of Atonement,” History Department and the Literary, Visual and Material Culture Initiative, University of Southern California, 20 January 2005.

“Europeanizing Britain,” History Department, University of Cincinnati [NEH Focus Grant Faculty Seminar – “What is Europe?”], 7 September 2004.

“Secularization and Wealth,” History Department, Rice University, 20 November 2003.

“The Struggle for the House: Men, Women and the Domestic Interior in Britain, 1840- 1920,” Royal College of Art, London, 5 February 2003.

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“Why did The House fail? Or: Demand and Supply before the Modern Shelter Magazine“ Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 6 February 2003.

“House Proud: A History of the British and their Possessions,” National Humanities Center, 4 April 2002.

“Who Was Who? Race and Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Britain,” Cambridge University Social History Seminar, 11 October 2000. [Same paper given in Bielefeld, Social History Seminar, 4 November 2000.]

“Regulating Benevolence: Charity and the State in Germany, 1917-1933,”Georgetown University, 2 November 1999.

“Caring for the Great War’s Victims: The Rise of Welfare States in Britain and Germany,” The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia and the United States, 1919-1939, Bern, 25 August 1999.

“Civil Society in the Great War’s Aftermath,” Princeton University, Colloquium in British History, 2 April 1998.

“The War’s Returns: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1945,” Institute for Historical Research, London, 18 March 1997.

Papers Read

“The Nabob’s Secret: Illegitimacy, Mixed-Race, and the Family, 1780-1860,” North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, 13 November 2010.

Chair and Organizer, Round-Table on David Bell’s The First Total War, Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 7 March 2008.

Commentator on the panel, “Little Englands, Larger Worlds,” North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, 19 November 2006.

“Material Good: Consumerism in the Age of Atonement,” North American Victorian Studies Association, Bloomington, 17 October 2003.

Commentator on the panel, “Unsettling Repression: Narratives of Emotion and Masculine Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century Britain,” North American Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, 9 November 2002.

“Art at Home: Decoration and Self in Britain, 1840s-1920s,” Conference on Art and Society in the Long Nineteenth Century,” German Historical Institute, 7 December 2002.

9 “Britain and Europe,” Plenary Session Round-Table, North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, 3 November 2001.

“Art and the Interior,” North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, 2 November 2001.

“The Mark of a Criminal: Acquitting Adolf Beck,” American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10 January 1999.

“Birth Control in Practice: Marie Stopes and her Mothers’ Clinics,” Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 26 September 1996.

“Charity and the State: the Case of Germany,” Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore, 28 February 1998.

“The Nation Accused: Veterans and the Public in Weimar Germany,” German Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., 23 September 1997.

“A Peculiarity of British History: Voluntarism in the Age of the Welfare State,” North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, 17 October 1996.

Radio

Discussions of Family Secrets: Start the Week with Andrew Marr, BBC Radio 4, January 7, 2013; Night Waves with Philip Dodd, BBC Radio 3; Newstalk Radio Ireland with Sean Moncrieff, 27 February; Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR, 11 March 2013; Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke, 6 June 2013, Tapestry with Karen Gordon, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 23 June 2013.

Discussions of Household Gods: Book Show with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, WAMC, 9 January 2007; By Design with Alan Saunders, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 7 April 2007.

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