Suzanne Cope
Cognoscenti contributor
Suzanne Cope is the author of "WOMEN OF WAR: The Italian Assassins, Spies and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis" (Dutton, 2025) and "POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (2021). She has published essays and articles in The Atlantic, CNN, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, New York Times among others, and her recent scholarship is on the intersection of food, women's work and social change. Dr. Cope is a professor at NYU.
Recently published
4 lessons today’s activists must learn to organize for change
Suzanne Cope, a NYU professor, has spent the last decade studying revolutionary groups, including anti-fascist women in Italy during World War II, the Black Panthers and Occupy Wall Street. Those...
What Food Riots Can Teach Us About Creating Political Change
The 1863 “bread riot,” led by women, altered the course of history. The lessons can inspire modern protests, writes Suzanne Cope.