Faculty
Deborah Cohen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Deborah Cohen joins UMSL with a joint position in the departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and History beginning in fall of 2004. She spent last year as a postdoctoral fellow at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, where she was working on Bordering Modernities: Race, Masculinity, and the Cultural Politics of Mexico-US Migration. Her manuscript examines mid-twentieth century Mexican migration to the United States to show how race, modernity, and national identity in Mexico and the US have been made in relation to each other and have reinforced the differences screened for at the border. She graduated with a Ph.D. in History (2001) from the University of Chicago specializing in questions of race, gender, and nation formation in Mexico and the US. She has published in the Journal of American Ethnic Studies, Clio (a French Feminist journal), Hispanic American Historical Review, and Estudios Sociológicos (Mexico City). She and Lessie Jo Frazier are co-editing Love-In, Love-Out: Gender and Sexuality in a Global ’68, a volume about gender in the many social movements occurring in 1968 (under review at Palgrave Press), and are completing Beyond ’68: Gender, Social Movements, and Political Culture in the 1968 Mexican Student Movement and its Legacies, a book that uses women’s participation in the 1968 Mexico student movement as a unique window onto the broader social, political, and cultural tensions and shifts occurring since the 1940s. Her other specialties and interests include Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Theory, and the growing field of Transnational History.
To contact Dr. Cohen please use the following email deborah.cohen@umsl.edu
Defining the Space of Mexico '68