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DEBORAH COEN

Assistant Professor of History

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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