Jody Cohen, Ph.D.

Jody Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in the Education Program and also teaches in the College Seminar Program. She is Director of Bryn Mawr's Writing for College program. She holds a Ph.D. Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and an M.A. in Writing from Brown University.

She teaches the following Education classes:

Jody has been involved with the Posse program since its second year at Bryn Mawr. Starting in 2006, she began working with a new Posse (Posse 6). She is also involved with the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program in several ways: she co-facilitates the two-week Summer Program for rising sophomores, which offers preparation for the MMUF in the context of a community-building, academically rich program; she mentors Mellon Fellows; and she participates in MMUF-sponsored events throughout the academic year.

Her research interests focus on the perspectives and roles of students and teachers in schooling and school change, particularly in urban settings, and on how college students deal with issues of diversity in the classroom. She engages students at the secondary and college levels as co-researchers of education and co-authors. For example, she worked with college students who were doing an action research project with urban secondary students on a chapter about action research and literacy teaching and learning.

Starting in the spring of 2007, Jody will co-facilitate The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a national program founded at Temple University in 1997 and brought to the Bi-Co by Haverford's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. In this program Haverford and Bryn Mawr students participate in a course with incarcerated students, with the purpose of reconsidering assumptions about crime, justice, and the criminal justice system.