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 race; as well as the stu ...

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

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

. He was the Founding Executive Director of the

Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of dev ...

(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 history and information technology at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County, Virgin ...

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

digital history Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis, presentation, and research. It is a branch of the digital humanities and an extension of quantitative history, cliometrics, and computing. Digital history is commonly d ...

and abstract mathematics being used in

Victorian society The Victorian Society is a UK amenity society and membership organisation that campaigns to preserve and promote interest in Victorian and Edwardian architecture and heritage built between 1837 and 1914 in England and Wales. It is a registered ...

to explain

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. In 2012 he was named one of the ''

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''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

math Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

while he was at Princeton. He started working for

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

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