Paul Cohen, Professor of History, is the winner of the 1998-99 Freshman Studies Teaching Award.
Recent and Future Courses:- Europe in the Age of Revolution
- Film as History and History as Film
- The Practice of History
- Freshman Studies
Selected Publications and Accomplishments:
- Freedom's Moment: An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault (Chicago, 1997)
- Piety and Politics: Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-14 in France (Garland, 1987)
- Director, ACM/GLCA Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities, 1991-92
- Director, Freshman Studies, 1996-98
"The best--and I hope the most accurate--assessment of my teaching style comes from a former student of mine, who once wrote that 'Mr. Cohen forces students to cogitate painfully,' indeed, that 'he PUSHES the points that he knows will hurt.' I gladly own up to such pedagogical sadism. The trick, of course, is to provide enough pain to inspire cogitation--but not so much as to generate recrimination or, worse yet, psychic disintegration."
