Yolande Cohen

Yolande Cohen (born 1950) is a Moroccan-born Canadian historian and professor of contemporary history whose research focuses upon History of Youth and the History of Women. A Moroccan Sephardi, she also focuses on the History of Moroccan Jews. She has younger brothers. She studied in Paris in 1968, then immigrated to Quebec.

Career Cohen was a lecturer in Rimouski, Quebec, in 1976. Cohen has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris Nanterre University.

In 1994, Coalition démocratique de Montréal merged with Montréal Écologique to become the Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique, a municipal political party that existed till 1998. Cohen was its initial leader and its candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election. In 2012, she was elected President of the Academy of Arts, Letters and Human Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada. 2013, Finalist, Women of the Year Competition, organized by the organization Arab Women's Space, in two categories: (a) art and culture, and (b) teaching and research 2017, Knight of the National Order of Québec

Selected works Les Mouvements de jeunesse socialiste en France : espoirs et échecs, 1880-1905, 1978 Femmes et politique, 1981 Les thèses universitaires québécoises sur les femmes, 1921-1981, 1983 Les jeunes, le socialisme et la guerre : histoire des mouvements de jeunesse en France 1989 Encrages féministes : un moment de réflexion dans la recherche féministe, 1989 Role of women's movements in enlarging citizenship in Québec, 1997 Féminismes et identités nationales : les processus d'intégration des femmes au politique, 1998 Femmes de parole : l'histoire des Cercles de fermières du Québec, 1915-1990, 1990 Femmes philanthropes : Catholiques, Protestantes et Juives dans les Organisations caritatives au Québec, 2000 Religion et politique dans les sociétés contemporaines, 2006 Identités sépharades et modernité, 2007 Le rôle des mouvements de femmes dans l'élargissement de la citoyenneté au Québec, 2012 Les Sépharades du Québec : parcours d'éxils nord-africains, 2017