Berkley Center

Katherine Benton-Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular interests in the histories of women and gender, race and immigration, and the American West. She previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. She is the author of Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (2009), as well as several journal articles and op-eds. She earned her A.B. at Princeton University, M.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.