About

Joshua I. Cohen is a historian of modern art specializing in postcolonial, African/diaspora, and global Cold War studies. His research and teaching explore modernist practices and discourses spanning francophone West Africa, southern Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Cohen is the author of The “Black Art” Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents, which is the first scholarly monograph to track the diverse presence of canonical African sculpture within modernism on a transatlantic scale. He has also co-edited an issue of ARTMargins devoted to Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn. His current book project, tentatively titled Art of the Opaque: African Modernism, Decolonization, and the Cold War, focuses on artists and intellectuals whose practices developed between Africa and its diaspora during decolonization and the Cold War, and has received support from multiple prestigious institutions. Before joining Stanford, Cohen taught for ten years at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Surgery
• Internal medicine
• Cardiology

Selected publications

• White Identity and Antisemitism in American Public Opinion During Donald Trump's First Presidency, 2016–2020

  Antisemitism Studies · 2026-02-10

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  Abstract: The ideology of White racial purity has been a mainstay of antisemitism in both Europe and the United States, with White identity politics re-emerging as an important force in American politics in the 2010s. This study tested whether White identity affects attitudes toward Jews using three survey panels from the Voter Study Group, with parallel analyses of Blacks and Muslims. The paper distinguishes White identity from White Supremacy. A strong sense of White identity does not necessarily lead some to believe that Whites are superior to non-Whites, a core element of White supremacist thinking. Results indicate that White identity significantly affects attitudes toward Jews, but the relationship for Jews is weaker than it is for Blacks or Muslims. Ironically, those with the strongest sense of White identity still regarded Jews warmly. The paper also addresses this puzzle, by testing the threat hypothesis. The threat hypothesis argues that before one will view an out-group negatively, one must view that group as a threat to the individual's in-group. Findings indicate weak support for the threat hypothesis, perhaps due to limitations of the data.

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• 60726 Association of Lichen Planus with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Cross-Sectional Study in the All of Us Research Program

  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2025-09-01

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• What Are the Implications of Choosing a TAVR-First Strategy in the Lifetime Management of Aortic Stenosis?: A Critical Review of TAVR-Explant- and Redo-TAVR

  Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions · 2025-01-22 · 7 citations

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  Some patients with aortic stenosis may require multiple valve interventions in their lifetime, and choosing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) as the initial intervention may be appealing to many. If their transcatheter heart valve degenerates later in life, most will hope to undergo redo-TAVR. However, if redo-TAVR is not feasible, some may have to undergo surgical explantation of their transcatheter heart valve (TAVR-explant). With rising numbers of TAVR in younger patients, we address the practical implications of choosing a TAVR-first strategy. In this review we explore potential factors contributing to higher-than-expected mortality after TAVR-explant, synthesize available outcomes data for TAVR-explant for structurally degenerated valves, and describe strategies to standardize and optimize surgical techniques for TAVR-explant. We also discuss clinical outcomes of redo-TAVR within the context of limitations in currently published series and highlight the potential benefit of virtual planning to assess the feasibility of future redo-TAVR before implanting the first valve. Finally, we highlight areas for future investigation to inform management strategies in patients who may require multiple aortic valve interventions.

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• Decision-making in valve reintervention: Redo—Transcatheter aortic valve replacement vs. explant surgery

  Cardiovascular revascularization medicine · 2025-08-22 · 1 citations

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• Did Antisemitism in Public Opinion Rise in the Wake of the Israel–Hamas War?

  Religions · 2025-09-30 · 1 citations

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  Israel’s military response in Gaza to Hamas’s terrorist attack and hostage taking of 7 October 2023 has led to fears of growing antisemitism. Indications of heightened antisemitism include massive spikes in antisemitic incidents and hate crimes around the world and the US, demonstrations and campus unrest, and antisemitic memes on the internet and social media platforms. Questions remain, however, whether public opinion has become increasingly hostile to Jews. The ADL Global 100 reports nearly a doubling in antisemitic sentiment from 2014 to 2024. This paper explores trends in antisemitism using country-level ADL Global 100 data. Results show some countries exhibiting large increases in antisemitism, but not all. For the 2023–2024 comparisons, European nations display relatively stable antisemitic distributions, but Russia shows a large increase. The study also uses American National Election study (ANES) data, both pooled from 1964–2024 and the 2020–2024 panel. The ANES data show a slight drop in warmth to Jews using the feeling thermometer. Demographics do not account for the slight drop, but analysis of the panel data suggests that attitudes toward Israel may account for the decline in warmth.

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• 62045 Dermatologist Utilization of Medications Associated with Androgenic Alopecia Treatment Among Medicare Beneficiaries

  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2025-09-01

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• (In)stability in American public attitudes toward Jews: a panel analysis

  Politics and Religion · 2024-12-01 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Polls for the past several decades indicate high regard for Jews in democracies in Western Europe and North American. We however have a limited understanding of the properties underlying those poll responses, for instance whether response bias or nonattitudes account for those results. The nonattitudes perspective suggests that respondents’ survey answers to questions about Jews are not true attitudes. Nonattitudes are weakly held responses to survey questions, and tend to be unstable over time, reflecting random as opposed to systematic change. This paper uses panel data from Voter Study Group surveys to test for individual-level stability in attitudes toward Jews by non-Jews in the United States in the 2010s to assess whether such attitudes are true or nonattitudes. Results suggest considerable instability especially when compared to attitudes toward Muslims, Democrats, and Republicans, suggesting a high degree of nonattitudes in non-Jews attitudes toward Jews. The conclusion offers reasons that might account for this instability in attitudes toward Jews and implications for the continuation of positive regard for Jews in western democracies.

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• Ideology and Attitudes toward Jews in U.S. Public Opinion: A Reconsideration

  Religions · 2024-01-01 · 3 citations

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  Antisemitism has been found on both the extreme left and right among political elites. However, at the mass public level, limited research suggests right-wing antisemitism, but not much left-wing antisemitism. This paper challenges that research, at least for the U.S., offering an alternative theory. The theory argues that the lowest levels of antisemitism will be found among mainstream liberals and conservatives. Ideological moderates will exhibit higher rates of antisemitism, while those lacking an ideological orientation will show still higher antisemitic rates. Extremists of the right and left may be more antisemitic than mainstream conservatives and liberals, but the inability of standard ideological self-placement questions to distinguish extreme ideologues from the very conservative/liberal makes it difficult to test the extremism hypothesis. Numerous items measuring attitudes towards Jews in the U.S. across five major surveys finds overwhelming support for the mainstream philosemitism theory. The conclusion puts the findings into perspective and offers suggestions regarding future research.

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• Replication Data for: Cohen, Jeffrey E. "American Muslim Attitudes toward Jews." Religions 13.5 (2022): 441.

  Harvard Dataverse · 2023-04-20

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  This is the data used for the article, Cohen, Jeffrey E. "American Muslim Attitudes toward Jews." Religions 13.5 (2022): 441, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050441

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• CRT-700.17 The Impact of the Cusp Overlap Technique on Permanent Pacemaker Requirement Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With a Self-Expanding Valve

  JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions · 2023-02-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Y. Joseph Woo

  Stanford University

  75 shared

• Pavan Atluri

  University of Pennsylvania

  55 shared

• John W. MacArthur

  53 shared

• Yasuhiro Shudo

  Stanford University

  41 shared

• Andrew B. Goldstone

  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  41 shared

• Bryan B. Edwards

  Stanford University

  37 shared

• Jay Patel

  MedStar Washington Hospital Center

  36 shared

• Alexander S. Fairman

  University of Pennsylvania Health System

  31 shared

Awards & honors

• Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, honorable me…