Cooper was Research Dean for Social Sciences at Keele University from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2009 she was a director of the AHRC Research Centre in Law, Gender, and Sexuality.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021[1] and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Select publications
Cooper, D. 1995. Power in struggle: feminism, sexuality and the State. New York University Press.
Grabham, E., Cooper, D., Krishnadas, J., and Herman, D. (eds) 2009. Intersectionality and beyond: law, power and the politics of location. Routledge.
Cooper, D. 2013. Everyday Utopias: the conceptual life of promising spaces. Duke University Press.
Cooper, D. 2019. Feeling like a State: Desire, Denial and the Recasting of Authority. Duke University Press.