Elizabeth Cohn Assistant Professor Foreign Policy & Global Security
- Degrees
- PhD, American University
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- My office hours
- Bio
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Dr. Elizabeth Cohn is an Assistant Professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. Her research interests include the U.S. promotion of democracy and Latin America. She is also deeply interested in pedagogies of teaching and is a frequent presenter at workshops on teaching. In Fall 2013 she was appointed SIS Faculty Coordinator for Teaching and Student Learning and in 2018-2019 she was a Faculty Fellow of AU's Center for Teaching Research & Learning. She has received several teaching and mentoring awards including: the 2021 SIS Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award; the 2018 William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching; the 2016 F. Gunther Eyck Award for dedication and devotion to teaching and students; the 2015 Milton and Sonia Greenberg Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award; the 2014 Ann Ferren Curriculum Design Award; and the 2012 SIS Outstanding Teaching Term Faculty Award.
She has taught at Goucher College, where she was the director of the International and Intercultural Studies program, and at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She was the founder and director of the Central American Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SISU-106 First Year Seminar: U.S.: Reflections in Mirror
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SISU-230 Analysis of US Foreign Policy
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Cohn teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy and international politics, as well as courses on Latin America including, "Breakfast in the Americas: Bananas, Coffee, Sugar."