Bernard Cohn (anthropologist)

Biography:

Bernard S. Cohn was an anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. Born in Brooklyn New York Cohn received a B. A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949 and a Ph. D. in anthropology from Cornell University in 1954. From 1952-3 he engaged in field research in India as a Fulbright scholar.