Deborah Coen
Biography
Deborah Coen is a historian of science whose research focuses on the modern physical and environmental sciences and on central European intellectual and cultural history. She earned an AB in physics from Harvard, an M.Phil. from Cambridge, and a PhD in history of science from Harvard, where she was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows.
Sample Works
Roundtable Appearances
March 7, 2026 · ▶ Video
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
The roundtable examines how intellectual movements and paradigms have historically organized knowledge within disciplines -- from functionalism and structuralism in anthropology...
Deborah Coen, Brigid Doherty, Gil Eyal, Farzad Mahootian, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen