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Women's Studies Department Faculty
DEBORAH COEN
Assistant Professor of History
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Ph.D. Harvard University
2004 Email:
dcoen@barnard.edu
Phone:
212.854.7449
Office Address:
410 Lehman Hall
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Research and Teaching Interests
Modern Central European history; history of science. Professor Coen's
current research is on weather and climate science in the Habsburg
Empire, interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the Third Reich.
Publications:
Books
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private
Life (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, July 2007)
Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of
Weather and Climate, co-edited with James R. Fleming and Vladimir
Jankovic (Science History Publications, 2006).
Articles
"Liberal Reason and the Culture of the Sommerfrische," forthcoming in
the Austrian History Yearbook, spring 2007.
"A Lens of Many Facets: Science Through a Family's Eyes," Isis 97
(2006): 395-419.
"Living Precisely in Fin-de-si'cle Vienna," Journal of the History of
Biology 39 (2006): 493-523.
"Felix Exner and the Probabilistic Turn in Austrian Meteorology," in
From Beaufort to Bjerknes and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on
Observing, Analyzing, and Predicting the Weather and Climate, eds.
Stefan Emeis and Cornelia L'decke (Rauner Verlag, 2005), pp. 143-156.
"Scientists' Errors, Nature's Fluctuations, and the Law of Radioactive
Decay, 1899-1926." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological
Sciences 32:2 (2002): 179-205.
Women's Studies Teaching:
The Sex of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Modern History
Activist Interests
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