About

Jean Cohen is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Thought and Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University, New York. Her areas of interest are populism and the new authoritarianism; social movements, parties and civil society; sovereignty; constitutional democracy; international political theory; and gender and the law. Her current work is focused on challenges to constitutional democracy and theorizing hybrid regimes.

Cohen is the author or editor of numerous scholarly publications including eight books. Her most recent is Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Democratic Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2022), co-authored with Andrew Arato. She has published more than 70 articles in journals such as Constellations, Ethics and International Affairs, Global Constitutionalism, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Political Theory, Social Research, Telos, and Thesis 11, among others. Her work has been translated into numerous languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Cohen holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research, from which she received the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2013.