Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also authored Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).