Cole, Joshua 1961–

(Joshua H. Cole)

PERSONAL: Born December 12, 1961. Education: Brown University, B.A. (with honors), 1983; University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1986, Ph.D., 1991.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer, historian, and educator. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, research assistant at School of Social Sciences, 1989–90; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, postdoctoral research fellow of Pembroke College in Berlin, Germany, 1991–92; Centre de Recherches d'Histoire des Mouvements Sociaux et du Syndicalisme, Paris, France, postdoctoral research fellow in Paris and Berlin, 1992–93; University of Georgia, Athens, assistant professor, 1993–2000, associate professor of history, 2000–04, fellow of Humanities Center, 1994; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, associate professor of history, 2004–.

AWARDS, HONORS: Mellon fellowship in the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, 1984; Council for European Studies grant, 1986; travel grant, Social Science Research Council, 1987; Bourse Chateaubriand, 1987; grant for Germany, German Academic Exchange Service/Goethe Institute, 1991; postdoctoral fellow at Centre National des Oeuvres Universitaires et Scolaires, 1992; grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994; international travel award, University of Georgia, 2003.

WRITINGS:

The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–19, edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1997; and Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia: Algeria 1800–2000, edited by Patricia Lorcin, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY).

Contributor to academic journals, including Journal of European Studies, French Historical Studies, History of the Human Sciences, Journal of Family History, and Frency Politics, Culture, and Society.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilization, Volume 2, with James M. Brophy, Steven Epstein, and others, for W.W. Norton.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

History: Review of New Books, summer, 2000, Dora Dumont, review of The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France, p. 165.

Journal of Modern History, June, 2003, Silvana Patriarca, review of The Power of Large Numbers, p. 424.

Population and Development Review, September, 2000, Etienne van de Walle, review of The Power of Large Numbers, p. 601.