Donald Cole (anthropologist)

Donald Powell Cole (March 21, 1941 in Bryan, Texas) is a noted anthropologist at the American University in Cairo. He joined the university in 1971. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Cole has studied Arab nomadic cultures, such as the Al Murrah, in his The Social and Economic Structure of the Āl Murrah: A Saudi Arabian Bedouin Tribe, his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley.

Cole, an American expat, currently resides in Cairo.

Assistant Professor, 1971–73; 1974–75 Associate Professor, 1975–86 Professor, 1986 to 2007 Emeritus Professor, 2007 onward

Acting Assistant Professor, Spring Quarter 1971 Visiting Assistant Professor, 1973–74

Visiting Associate Professor, Winter and Spring Quarters 1976

Visiting Associate Professor, Spring Semester 1983, plus several summer sessions Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle East Studies, Spring Semester 1987

Visiting Researcher, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Spring Semester 1995

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