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name: Katherine Benton-Cohen
about: Katherine Benton-Cohen is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She previously taught at Louisiana State University. She is the author of two books, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2009), and Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard University Press, 2018). She also served as historical advisor to the documentary feature film, Bisbee ’17, directed by Robert Greene. Benton-Cohen has received research fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and elsewhere. She currently serves as an Organization of American Historians Disting Katherine Benton-Cohen is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She previously taught at Louisiana State University. She is the author of two books, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2009), and Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard University Press, 2018). She also served as historical advisor to the documentary feature film, Bisbee ’17, directed by Robert Greene. Benton-Cohen has received research fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and elsewhere. She currently serves as an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. She and her work have appeared in media outlets including PBS American Experience, the BBC, Dissent, the New Yorker, Politico.com, Reuters, and the Washington Post. In 2018, she was named as an OAH-Japanese Association for American Studies Resident Fellow at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. An Arizona native, Benton-Cohen is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Washington, DC. ...more