Michael Mark Cohen is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at UCB with a joint appointment in American Studies and African American Studies. Michael was born in Denver, Colorado, the child of two public school teachers. He holds a BA in History from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (2004). He is the author of The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly (2019). His writings have appeared in American Quarterly, Gawker, Radical History Review, Monthly Review, The Comics Journal, Southern Cultures, and Qui Parle among other outlets. His general research and teaching areas cover the cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the Present. Areas of emphasis include racial capitalism and racial formations in the United States; labor, work and radical social movements; Marx and the Marxist tradition in world history and theory; cultural studies, popular culture and US film and literature; theories of conspiracy and conspiracy theories; political cartooning and comic books; race and drugs in US history; and contemporary US politics and social change.
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Associate Teaching Professor
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American Studies and African American Studies
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