Deborah Coen

Deborah R. Coen is a professor of history at Yale. Her research focuses on the modern physical and environmental sciences and on central European intellectual and cultural history. She also writes and teaches about feminism, disasters, and all things Viennese. She is the author, most recently, of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (2018). Her next book, The Atmospheric Commons, turns to history to understand the ingrained scientific habits that undermine collaborative responses to climate change—and to find better alternatives.