Pro-Seminar Series: Professor Philip Cohen, University of Maryland

Philip Cohen is a professor of sociology and a demographer at the University of Maryland, College Park, where his research and teaching concern families and inequality. His commentary on topics ranging from race and gender inequality to parenting, poverty, and popular culture has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Since 2016, he has been the founding director of SocArXiv, an open archive for the social sciences, and an advocate for open science in the research community. He is active in efforts to reform the system of scholarly communication, and often speaks on the topics of how scholars can productively engage with our many public audiences, to improve our work and deepen its impact. His latest book is Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press, 2025). The session will focus on the values of open scholarship / open science for social scientists, as well as some challenges and dilemmas. A preprint of the chapter on open scholarship is available here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/vw3ea_v1 (not required reading).

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