Juan Cole

Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the  University of Michigan, where he has been on the faculty since he received his doctorate in 1984. He has been active, for many years, in the Middle East Studies Association and was its president in 2006, and has been a longtime member of the editorial board of the journal Iranian Studies, published by the International Society for Iranian Studies. He is also President of the Global Americana Institute, which translates classic American writings, starting with Thomas Jefferson, into Arabic to make them accessible to the Middle East.

Cole was a consistent critic of U.S. policy in the Iraq War.

Education

 * 1975  B.A. History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University
 * 1978  M.A. Arabic Studies/History, American University in Cairo
 * 1984  Ph.D. Islamic Studies, University of California Los Angeles