Jeffrey E. Cole is an American anthropologist. He is professor of anthropology, chairman of the Department of Anthropology and

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, and served as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the

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from 2012 to 2014. Cole is an expert on race and ethnicity in Europe, a subject on which he has written and edited numerous books and articles.

Biography

Jeffrey Cole received his B.A. from

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, his Cand. Mag from the

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and his Ph.D. from the

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. Cole subsequently served for 15 years on the faculty of

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. Since 2008 he has been professor of

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and chair of the Department of Anthropology at

. He was made Associate

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at Connecticut College in 2015, and since July 1, 2018, he has been Dean of the Faculty at Connecticut College since July 1, 2018. Cole is an expert on race and ethnicity in Europe, a subject on which he has authored numerous books and articles. He has co-edited two special issues of the '' Journal of Modern Italian Studies'', and was the editor of Ethnic Groups of Europe (2011), a one-volume encyclopedia. In the latter work, Cole supervised the work of more than 80 scholars from throughout the world. Cole is a fellow of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment (GNCE). He is the recipient of grants and awards from the

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, Wenner-Gren, the

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, and the

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. From 2012 to 2014, Cole was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the

. He has supervised studies and has supervised individual studies and honors theses conducted by students in the GNCE and the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA). Cole is a resident of

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, where he lives with his spouse Sally Booth.

Selected bibliography

*''A New Racism in Europe: A Sicilian Ethnography'', 1997 *''Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily'', 2007 *''Ethnic Groups of Europe'', 2011

References

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