Daniel J. Cohen is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. As of June 1, 2017, he is serving as dean of libraries and vice provost for information collaboration at

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

. He was the Founding Executive Director of the

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(DPLA). He was the director of the

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), formerly the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), is a research center specializing in digital history and information technology at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County, V ...

for 12 years, until leaving his position for the DPLA in 2013. His research work has focused around

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and abstract mathematics being used in

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to explain

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. In 2012 he was named one of the '' Chronicle for Higher Education''s Tech Innovators. He was raised in the

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area. As a teenager he was named one of the 20 best high school students in

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. He participated in the

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in 1985. Cohen earned his bachelor's degree in religion from Princeton University, his master's degree in the history of religion in the Modern West from Harvard University, and his doctorate in history from Yale University. He studied

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while he was at Princeton. He started working for

Roy Rosenzweig Roy Alan Rosenzweig (August 6, 1950 – October 11, 2007) was an American historian. He was the founder and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University from 1994 until his death in October 2007 from lung cancer, ...

in 2001. He is a contributing writer to ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Bibliography

*Cohen, Daniel J. and Roy Rosenzweig. "Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2005). *Cohen, Daniel J. ''Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2007).

References

External links

Official website
* Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Writers from Boston Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Princeton University alumni George Mason University faculty Harvard University staff Historians from Massachusetts Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub