Michael David Cohen

See Also: Curriculum Vitae

Field Specialties

U.S. antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction; history of education; women’s and gender history

Dr. Cohen’s research centers on the history of higher education in nineteenth-century America. He is currently finishing a book, under contract with the University of Virginia Press, titled Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. This book explores the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on colleges’ curricula, admissions policies, and relationships with government. Dr. Cohen is also assistant editor of the Correspondence of James K. Polk.

Education

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
• B.A., Carleton College, 2002
  

Selected Publications

• “‘What Gender Is Lex?’: Women, Men, and Power Relations in Colleges of the Nineteenth Century.” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education 24 (2005): 41–90.
  
  
• “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations: ‘A Glancing Bird’s Eye View’ by a ‘Morbid Scholiast.’” Harvard Library Bulletin, new ser., 14, no. 2 (summer 2003): 55–74.

Contact Information

Michael David Cohen
Assistant Research Professor of History
Assistant Editor of the Correspondence of James K. Polk
1400 Cumberland Avenue
Hoskins Library, Room 216
Knoxville, TN 37996-4000

Phone: (865) 974-2069
Email: mdcohen@utk.edu