Lizabeth Cohen received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. Until recently, she was dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Previously, she taught at Oxford University, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. The author of many articles and essays, Dr. Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939, which later won the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. She is also the author of A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and coauthor of the popular college and advanced-placement history textbook The American Pageant. You can sign up for email updates here.