Education
Harvard University.
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Harvard University.
His research interests include 19th-20th century China. Historical thought; American historiography on China. Cohen received his Bachelor from the University of Chicago and his doctorate degree from Harvard University, where he was a student of John King Fairbank and Benjamin I. Schwartz.
After completing his doctorate, he worked at the University of Michigan from 1962 to 1963.
He was a faculty member in the History department at Amherst College from 1963-1965. Thereafter, he taught at Wellesley College till his retirement.
He is currently an Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He was formerly married to Jane M. Cohen, now on the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.