

Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University.

She taught nine years at the University of San Diego, becoming chair of the History Department, and then accepted the Dwight E. Following graduation, she won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians for best dissertation on U.S. While at Stanford, she won the David Potter Award for Outstanding History Graduate Student. and PhD in American History from Stanford University in 1988. Cobbs studied literature at the University of California, San Diego, and graduated summa cum laude in 1983. Biography Įlizabeth Cobbs was born on July 28, 1956, in Gardena, California. She is also credited as a screenwriter on the film adaptation of her book American Umpire, as a producer on the film adaptation of her book The Hello Girls, and as a screenwriter and producer of the public television documentary CyberWork and the American Dream: The History and Future of Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. She holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University.

Writer, lecturer, historian, professor, producerįearless Women, The Tubman Command, The Hello Girls, The Hamilton Affair, American Umpire, Broken Promises, The Rich Neighbor Policy, All You Need Is Love, Major Problems in American HistoryĪllan Nevins Prize, Telly Award, Emmy Award, San Diego Book Award Start Bernath PrizeĮlizabeth Cobbs is an American historian, commentator and author of nine books including three novels, a two-volume textbook and five non-fiction works.
