Robert Cohen Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University NYU Social Studies Education Thursday, September 19 2024, 12:45 - 2pm 101 LeConte Hall Join us for a book talk on Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century (August 2024, UNC Press) by author Robert Cohen, New York University. Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated member of NYU’s History Department. His historical scholarship focuses on politics, higher education, and social protest in twentieth-century America. His social studies work links middle and high school teachers with the recent advances in historical scholarship, and develops curriculum aimed at teaching their students to explore history as a critical discipline – and one that is characterized by intense and exciting debate. Free and open to the public. Refreshments. Research Area: African American U.S. 19th & 20th Century U.S. South
