Cathy J. Cohen, a political scientist, is the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Much of her work concerns women and black people in politics. She is founder of the Black Youth Project, which conducts the GenForward survey of young adults across the country every two months. GenForward, which focuses on how race and ethnicity shape the way the respondents experience and think about the world, will form the basis of Dr. Cohen’s Carnegie project. Also a political activist, Dr. Cohen was one of the founders of the Audre Lorde Project in New York and is the author of The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999).
Cathy J. Cohen
David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
More 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
Solomon HsiangChancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Bathsheba DemuthAssistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Brown University
Azmat KhanInvestigative Reporter and Professor of Journalism; Future of War Fellow, New America
Alice E. MarwickAssistant Professor, Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Get the Carnegie Reporter and our best articles delivered to your inbox.