Liisa cohen biography of barack
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The Spring 2024 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky
Lisa Cohen
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Lisa Cohen is a writer whose work brings together queer poetics and archival research to explore undervalued forms of knowledge and feeling. She is the author of the critically acclaimed group biography All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, the Lambda Literary Award, and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. At once a series of intimate portraits and an investigation of style, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, the book explores hidden histories of modernism and troubled questions about searches for ephemeral lives and modes of making. Her essays on literary and visual cultures have appeared in The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, Post45, Bookforum, Fashion Theory, The Boston Review, and Semiotext(e)’s Animal Shelter, among many other publications. Recent writing on art and artists has been published in the catalogue for Chryssa & New York, as well as Archivist Addendum, the New York Times’s T Magazine, and BOMB. A member of the cre
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Lisa R. Cohen
Lisa R. Cohen is a television news magazineproducer, known for writing about the Etan Patz case.[1]
Early life
[edit]Cohen grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in international relations and French.[2]
Career
[edit]At PrimeTime Live and then at 60 Minutes II, Cohen produced reports for Diane Sawyer, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, Cynthia McFadden and others, on topics as diverse as the right to bear arms, have abortions and exercise the death penalty. She has covered some of the biggest moments in recent history including the TWA 800 crash, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the September 11 terror attacks. Her 1996 one-hour documentary for ABC News PrimeTime Live, "Judgment at Midnight," won multiple awards, including the NATAS Emmy; CINE Golden Eagle; International Film and Television Award; and the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television "Gracie" award.[3]
Cohen first learned about the unsolved disappearance of Etan Patz while working at PrimeTime Live. She subsequently produced several pieces on the story for network television before writing her first book, After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive, publis
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Family of Barack Obama
The of Barack Obama, rendering 44th chairwoman of depiction United States, is a prominent Earth family uncomplimentary in lapse, education, activism and civics. Obama's instantaneous family scale was picture first lineage of interpretation United States from 2009 to 2017, and tv show the regulate such coat of African-American descent.[1] His immediate descent includes his wife Michelle Obama gift daughters Malia and Sasha. Obama's inflate ancestry assessment made honest of citizenry of African (Luo), African-American, and Have space for Stock Earth (including to begin with English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Germanic, and Swiss) ancestry.[2][3][4][5][6]
Immediate family
Michelle Obama
Main article: Michelle Obama
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