Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen taught high school history for fifteen years and has been teaching at Tufts University since 1995.  He is a Senior Lecturer in Education and also teaches courses in the Peace and Justice and the American Studies programs as well as being Affiliated Faculty in the History Department.  He has worked on educational projects beyond the classroom, editing and writing anthologies to accompany the public television documentaries, Vietnam  A Television History  and Eyes On The Prize.  He has also been working with WGBH on the public television website:  pbslearningmedia.org.  Steve was a Program Associate with Facing History and Ourselves for two decades and has written articles about teaching controversial issues like the Vietnam War, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust.  He was the recipient of the Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising in 2003 at Tufts University.  He was voted Professor of the Year by the Tufts Student Senate in the spring of 2007.  He was voted Professor of the Year by the Tufts Democrats in the spring of 2010.  He has, quite obviously, been in a slump for over a decade.