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Edward J. Logue, who contributed to major redevelopment projects across the Northeast, including the “New Boston” that emerged in the 1960s. In addition to her scholarship, Cohen has made significant fi contributions to Harvard’s institutional life since arriving in 1997 from New York University. She has served as chair of the Department of History, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and cochair of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s working group on pedagogy, which released its final report in 2004. She also served as cochair, with Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Graduate School of Design, of the Common Spaces Steering Committee, and continues to serve on the Advisory Committee for Common Spaces Projects. Cohen is a longtime member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on the Status of Women and served on the Harvard Task Force on Women in 2005. She has also been a member of the Tanner Lectures Committee, the Social Sciences Chairs Council, the History Department Planning Committee, the FAS Resources Committee and Faculty Council, and administrative committees for the Charles Warren Center, the History of American Civilization Program, the Center for History and Economics, and the joint PhD program of the Graduate School of Design and FAS, among other assignments. Her many honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as the Radcliffe ff Institute. In 2001, Cohen served as president of the Urban History Association. During the 2007–2008 academic year, she taught at Oxford as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History. Cohen received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s and doctorate in American history from the University of California at Berkeley. ƒ Summer 2011 r a dcl i f f e m agazine
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