Author + Speaker + Sociologist

Hi! I’m Deborah Cohan, a professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, a contributing writer for Psychology Today online, a frequent contributor to Inside Higher Ed, and am regularly featured as an expert on national media outlets on a range of social issues.

Author

I offer freelance writing of any kind, ghostwriting for professional and personal purposes, support for college admissions essays, and writing coaching for adults, college, and high school students.

Speaker

I offer workshops, as well as private coaching, related to: creativity, writing, work/life balance, and interior (re) design sessions related to the physical spaces we inhabit and the emotional spaces of our lives and relationships.

I enjoy sharing my expertise with universities, companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of any kind, like book clubs, neighborhood communities, etc. And I am always available to work one on one.

Sociologist

Trainer and consultant for nonprofit organizations and corporations, with many years of experience working as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and speaker in the field of abuser intervention.

Consultant and expert for legal cases involving domestic and sexual violence and harassment.

My Latest Book

Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption

This work is a personal and public meditation on what we hold onto, what we let go of, how we remember others and how we’re remembered. We are at a historical moment in which so many people are navigating the difficult world of caregiving for aging and ill parents and yet simultaneously having to reconcile old family dynamics. Here, I reflect on my adoring and abusive father which gives way to emerging and interlocking themes that also become central: domestic violence, marriage, divorce, only children, aging, illness, death, food, shifting dimensions of social class, and gender and race in caregiving.