Katherine Benton-Cohen
Assistant Professor

217F Himes Hall
578-4496
bencoh@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:   Women in America, Colonial to the Present; US History 1865 to the Present; Graduate seminar in US history; Graduate seminar on research methods
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   Gender and the History of Race in the American Southwest
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:   History of women and gender, 19th and 20th c. US social history, History of the American West; History of race in America
BRIEF VITA

Education:
B.A. Princeton University (1994); M.A. (1997) & Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (2002)

Awards and Honors:  

Butcher Scholar, Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, Arizona, 2005-2006
Louisiana State University Manship Summer Research Award, 2005
Ray Allen Billington Article Prize, Western History Association, 2004
Louisiana State University Council on Research Summer Grant Award, 2004
Newberry Library Two-Month Short-Term Resident Fellow, May-June 2003

Notable Articles:

Common Purposes, Worlds Apart: Mexican-American, Mormon and Midwestern Women Homesteaders in Cochise County, Arizona," Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2005)

"Docile Children and Dangerous Revolutionaries: The Racial Hierarchy of Manliness and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917," Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 24, nos. 2-3 (2003): Winner, 2004 Billington Prize