Jeffrey H. Cohen

Who is Jeffrey H. Cohen?

Jeffrey H. Cohen, PhD, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1962 is an American Anthropologist.

Jeffrey Cohen grew up in Indianapolis where he attended Indianapolis Public School #86 and Shortridge High School. For college he attended Indiana University. He went on to earn his PhD also at Indiana under the guidance of Richard Wilk. Cohen's work is centered ethnographically in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. For his dissertation, he explored how an indigenous, peasant community responded to globalization. Since that time much of his work focuses on migration, economic development and identity. He graduated with his doctorate in 1994 and is currently an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University in the department of anthropology and a member of steering committee for the Initiative in Population Research. Since the late 1980s he has worked in Oaxaca's central valleys region and specifically in the community of Santa Ana del Valle, documented in his book, Cooperation and Community, published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press.

In 2004 he published the Culture of Migration, also with the University of Texas press.