Cathy J. Cohen

Cathy J. Cohen is the chair of the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and the D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She formerly served in numerous administrative positions, including chair of the Department of Political Science, director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and deputy provost for graduate education at the University of Chicago. Cohen is the author of two books, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press) and Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press), and is a longtime activist whose political affiliations include Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, the Audre Lorde Project, and Scholars for Social Justice.