Michael Cohen

Dr. Michael R. Cohen is the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience at Tulane University, and he currently serves as Founding Director of the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience. Cohen’s most recent monograph, Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era (NYU Press), was a finalist for the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize. He is also the author of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement (Columbia University Press), as well as several articles and reviews. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History (Oxford UP), and his third book-length monograph, American Jews: An Economic History, is under contract with NYU Press. Cohen earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and his A.B. with honors from Brown University.