Deborah R. Coen is a professor of history at Yale. 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.
Deborah R. Coen
Articles
What’s Next for Histories of Climate Change
Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists.
Who Gets to Set the Research Agenda for the Planet? On Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals”
Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes “success” is a matter of who is part of the scientific conversation (and who is not)—and thus a matter of standpoint.
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