Dr. Kohn specializes in 20th century art with a particular focus on migration and transnationality, shifting constructs of race and ethnicity, trauma and memory studies, Jewish cultural studies, and the history of photography. Her writing has appeared in American Art, Jewish Translation/Translating Jewishness—a volume she also co-edited—and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, among other places. Her article “Elevated: Along the Fringes of 291 Fifth Avenue” was named Honorable Mention for the 2019 Director’s Essay Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Ancestral Time: Toward a Postnational History of the Photographic Book. Her study, under advance contract with Amherst College Press, develops a critique of nationalism—both as a political structure and a framework for academic research and writing—through an exploration of Jewish loss in a collection of photographic books published in the United States across the twentieth century.