Andrew W. Cohen, Affiliated Faculty by Courtesy Appointment

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History Department Professor of Law, College of Law (by courtesy appointment) Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute (315)443-3320 awcohe01@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae[PDF]

Andrew Wender Cohen studies the history of crime and criminal law in the United States. His newest book, Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America, will appear with Cambridge University Press in 2026. He has published two prior books, Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century (Norton, 2015) and The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940 (Cambridge, 2004). His current research project, “Anthony Comstock’s Gilded Age,” examines sex, law and politics in the post-Civil War era. He has won fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.