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Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen, Professor of History, is the winner of the 1998-99 Freshman Studies Teaching Award.

Recent and Future Courses:

Selected Publications and Accomplishments:

Reflections on Teaching:

"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."