Philip Cohen
Philip N.
Cohen
Professor
University of Maryland, College Park

Philip N. Cohen is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research concerns the demography of families and inequality. He is the director of SocArXiv, an open archive for the social sciences, a member of the General Social Survey Board of Overseers, the former editor of Contexts, and the former chair of the American Sociological Association Family Section. He is the author of The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change (Norton 2021) and Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible (University of California Press 2018). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other outlets.