Juan Cole - Appointments and Awards

Appointments and Awards

Cole was awarded Fulbright-Hays fellowships to India (1982) and to Egypt (1985–1986). In 1991 he held a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the study of Shia Islam in Iran. From 1999 until 2004, Juan Cole was the editor of The International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has served in professional offices for the American Institute of Iranian Studies and on the editorial board of the journal Iranian Studies. He was elected president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in November 2004. In 2006, he received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism administered by Hunter College.

• 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
• 1984–1990: Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan
• 1990–1995: Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
• 1992–1995: Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
• 1995–2007: Professor of History, University of Michigan
• 2007–present: Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
• 2009-2012: Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan