Joshua Cole

Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and his B.A. from Brown University in 1983. His research and teaching deal primarily with the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany.

He is the winner of several book awards, including the J. Russell Major Prize from the American Historical Association, the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial History Society, and a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council.