Elizabeth Cohen
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Department of Political Science in College of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth Cohen is the Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University. She has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. Her work has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. Elizabeth is the author of 4 books: Illegal: How America’s Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All; Citizenship; The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice and Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics. In addition to her trade press and scholarly publications, she has also published op-eds in public facing outlets including the Atlantic, the Washington Post and Politico.