Deborah Coen

Deborah R. Coen is Professor of History and Chair of Yale’s Program in History of Science and Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, where she was also a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows. Previously, she taught in the History Department at Barnard College and was Director of Research Clusters for the Columbia Center for Science and Society. Her research interests include the history of the modern physical and environmental sciences, modern Central European intellectual and cultural history, history of the family, and scientific internationalism. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (2007) and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (2013), both published by the University of Chicago Press. Her latest book is Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (2018), and she is continuing to pursue research into the history of climate knowledge.