Gary B. Cohen

Gary B. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He served from 2001 through 2010 as director of the Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies and from 2001 to 2013 as Executive Editor of The Austrian History Yearbook. He was educated at the University of Southern California (B.A., 1970) and Princeton University (M.A., 1972; PhD., 1975). His publications include two monographs, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Princeton University Press, 1981; rev. second ed., Purdue University Press, 2006; Czech translation, Karolinum – The Charles University Press, 2000) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue University Press, 1996); five edited books, articles in The Journal of Modern History, Central European History, The Austrian History Yearbook, The East European Quarterly, Jewish History, and The Social Science Quarterly; and numerous book chapters. He is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich. The Republic of Austria has honored him with its Cross of Honor for Science and Arts, first class; and the Czech Academy of Sciences has awarded him its František Palacký Honorary Medal for Merit in Historical Sciences.