Faculty Advisor

BENJamin R. cohen

Benjamin Cohen joined the McKelvy community as Resident Faculty Advisor in 2022. He also serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Lafayette Badminton Club.

Cohen (recent picture, left) was an active historian of science, technology, and the environment and an STS scholar before committing most of his energy to advising the badminton club. He is a Professor of Engineering Studies and that program’s Chair, while affiliated with Environmental Studies and the History Department. Other members of those programs and departments are not particularly adept at advising badminton.

His research focuses on the history and future of justice-centered food systems. You can find a lot of it on the internet, have a look. He does not know how to play badminton.