Nicole Cohen

Class Adviser & Associate Faculty
B.A. History & Asian Studies, Dartmouth, 1996
M.A. East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University, 1999
Ph.D. History, Columbia University, 2006

Nicole Cohen was awarded her Ph.D., With Distinction, in Japanese History from Columbia University. She also holds an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia. Her book manuscript on the "Children of Empire," is a study of second- and third-generation Japanese colonists in Korea in the 1870s-1940s and their turbulent repatriation to the Japanese metropole in the aftermath of WWII. It explores the remapping of boundaries, identity, and notions of national belonging that accompanied the abrupt and often violent transition from the colonial to the postcolonial world. Her research and teaching interests include social history, colonialism & imperialism, and war & memory. She is teaching “Memory Wars: Japanese Representations of WWII.” Prior to Gallatin, she taught at Columbia University and Yale University.