Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History
Director of the Center for South Asian Studies
Steering Committee for the International Institute
Cruise the Panama Canal Aboard the Crystal Symphony
Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Cole is a world historian and the co-author of a forthcoming world history textbook from Cambridge University Press.
He has written on early modern and modern colonialism, including the impact of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and British empires on the global South. His monographs range widely from Napoleon in Egypt to the British in India. Cole is also a foreign policy analyst and a public intellectual. He has consulted with the US government and the foreign ministries of France, the Netherlands, and Singapore among others.
Among his interests is south-south relations and their security implications, as with Venezuela’s relationship to other members states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). He has given foreign policy talks to diplomats, business executives and academics in Brazil. Spanish is among his research languages. He has been a regular guest on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, and has also appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He has given many radio and press interviews. He has a regular column at Truthdig.
