Teresa Porzecanski Cohen (born 5 de May 1945)[1] is an Uruguayan anthropologist, writer and academic.

Porzecanski Cohen was born and raised in Montevideo to a Jewish family.

[4] Her works have included a focus on the Jewish communities of Uruguay, afrodescendant minorities, as well as prejudice and ethnic issues.

[6] In a review for the American Jewish Archives, Alejandro Lilienthal called it a good introduction to the subject, outside of the transcriptions of the oral histories.

[7] Her fiction is part of a tradition of works exploring identities and migration maladjustments, prejudice against minorities, and women interior worlds.