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deborah coen
Assistant Professor of History
Deborah Coen, Assistant Professor of History, joined the Barnard faculty in 2006. In addition to teaching for the Department of History, Professor Coen is affiliated with Barnard's Women's Studies Program. Prior to coming to Barnard, Professor Coen was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Professor Coen has taught such courses as "Bodies and Machines, 1750-1939," "History of Environmental Thinking," "Gender and Knowledge in Modern History," "Vienna and the Birth of the Modern," and "Central Europe: Nations, Cultures, and Ideas."
Professor Coen's particular research interests are in the history of modern central Europe and the history of science and technology. Her current research, on the history of climatology and seismology, centers on the Habsburg Empire’s status as a laboratory for studies of the relationship between nature and culture. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error” and the intersections between science and private life.
Selected Publications
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
"Liberal Reason and the Culture of the Sommerfrische," Austrian History Yearbook (Spring 2007).
Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, co-edited with J. R. Fleming and V. Jankovic (Science History Publications, 2006).
"A Lens of Many Facets: Science Through a Family's Eyes," Isis Vol. 97 (2006): 395-419.
"Living Precisely in Fin-de-siècle Vienna," Journal of the History of Biology Vol. 39 (2006): 493-523.
"A Lens of Many Facets: Science Through a Family's Eyes," Isis Vol. 97 (2006): 395-419.
"Felix Exner and the Probabilistic Turn in Austrian Meteorology," From Beaufort to Bjerknes and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Observing, Analyzing, and Predicting the Weather and Climate, S. Emeis and C. Lüdecke eds. (Rauner Verlag, 2005): 143-156.
"Scientists' Errors, Nature's Fluctuations, and the Law of Radioactive Decay, 1899-1926," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Vol. 32, No. 2 (2002): 179-205.
Deborah Coen
Assistant Professor of History
Barnard College
212-854-7449
EDUCATION:
AB, Harvard University
MPhil, University of Cambridge
PhD, Harvard University
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SPECIALIZATION:
European history
Modern Central Europe
History of science and technology