Dr. Lucy M. Cohen

Ordinary Professor of Anthropology

Education

B.A. from Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, 1956
M.S.W. from The Catholic University of America, 1958
Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Catholic University of America, 1966
             Archeology, University of New Mexico (F. H. Ellis);
             Linguistics: University of Oklahoma, Summer Institute of
             Linguistics: (Kenneth Pike)

Born in

Costa Rica

Research/Discipline

Note several lines of interest; e.g. Latin America, particularly Colombia and Central America; Latinos in the U.S., particularly in the Washington Metropolitan area; Nineteenth Century Overseas Chinese in the Americas, including connections with China origins; Medical anthropology; Ethnohistory; applied anthropology and public policy.

Mentors

I have had mentors at every level of my educational experience and continue to have them now.