USCB’s Dr. Deborah Cohan Wins Public Sociology Award
The Eastern Sociological Society has awarded Dr. Deborah J. Cohan the newly created ESS Public Sociology Award. The award was presented during the group’s 92nd annual meeting in Boston, March 10-13, 2022. The award recognizes sociologists who have done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research including high profile public dissemination and media appearances with attention toward improving public welfare.
Cohan is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and the author of the sociological memoir, Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption (Rutgers 2020). She is a writer for Psychology Today and a frequent contributor to national publications including Inside Higher Ed, Ms. Magazine, and The Good Men Project. Her writing has also appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Utne Reader, Ravishly, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Brandeis Magazine, and she is regularly featured as an expert for national media on a range of social issues.
Founded in 1930, the Eastern Sociological Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to promoting excellence in sociological scholarship and instruction.