Cathy Cohen

Departmental website:
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/cathy-cohen

Cathy Cohen’s general field of specialization is American politics, although her research interests include African-American politics, women and politics, lesbian and gay politics, and social movements.

She is principal investigator of two major projects: The Black Youth Project and the Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project.

She is the author of the book The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999), the co-editor with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (1997) and Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (2010). Cohen also is editor with Frederick Harris of Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.

 

Cathy Cohen

  • Title: D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
  • Education: PhD, University of Michigan; AB, Miami University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2002
  • cjcohen@uchicago.edu
  • @cathyjcohen

Media Contacts

Elizabeth Braun Rush

Executive Director for Strategic Communications, Social Sciences Division

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Expertise

African American Politics, Gender, Politics, Social movements

Cohen Stories

Tarana Burke discusses her me too movement, Hollywood’s hashtag co-opting of it Tarana Burke (left) talks with Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, during an event at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

Tarana Burke discusses her me too movement, Hollywood’s hashtag co-opting of it

Prof. Cathy Cohen to deliver 2022 Ryerson Lecture on race and vulnerability Cathy Cohen

Prof. Cathy Cohen to deliver 2022 Ryerson Lecture on race and vulnerability

Watch UChicago faculty discuss research in new Harper Lectures View of campus from Rockefeller Chapel Tower

Watch UChicago faculty discuss research in new Harper Lectures

BLM Demonstration

Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future? (Ep. 49)

University of Chicago scholars examine the changing conversation around racial injustice and police reform

Rethinking the narratives of mass incarceration Screenshot from 'The Long Term,' an animated video drawn by incarcerated artists

Rethinking the narratives of mass incarceration

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UChicago political scientist Cathy Cohen named Carnegie Fellow

Black Lives Matter co-founder to speak Feb. 21 at UChicago

Black Lives Matter co-founder to speak Feb. 21 at UChicago

Cathy Cohen

What We’re Getting Wrong About Millennials with Cathy Cohen (Ep.18)

A leading scholar on race and politics says some of our assumptions about millennials are all wrong.

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Finding fault lines in the next generation

Study: A third of young adults want out of Chicago; ill omen for population loss

Study: A third of young adults want out of Chicago; ill omen for population loss