'Saving America's Cities in the Postwar Suburban Age'

CASAR cordially invites you to a lecture
by Professor Lizabeth Cohen entitled "Saving
America's Cities in the Postwar Suburban
Age." All are welcome.

Dr. Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen is Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University. She also teaches in the graduate program in the History of American Civilization at Harvard. She received her A.B. from Princeton University, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at Carnegie Mellon University and New York University before coming to Harvard in 1997. In her historical research and writing on twentieth-century America, Cohen aspires to bring together social, political, and cultural history. Her first book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1929 (Cambridge, 1990, pbk 1992; second edition, 2008), won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Labor History Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the co-author with David Kennedy of an American history college textbook, The American Pageant (Houghton Mifflin, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010).

Dr. Lizabeth Cohen (continued)

Most recently, she has published A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Knopf, 2003; Vintage 2004), which has been widely reviewed and acclaimed. She is currently at work on a book entitled Saving Americas Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, under contract with Farrar, Straus. Cohen is the recipient of several fellowships such as the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, and the Real Estate Academic Initiative all of Harvard University.