Fay cooper cole biography definition

Professor of anthropology (1881–1951)

Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department^[1] at the University of Chicago; he was a student of Franz Boas.

Some argue that he, most famously, was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial.^[2][3] Cole also played a central role in planning the anthropology exhibits for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair.

He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1941.

Early life

Cole was born in 1881 in Plainwell, Michigan to Ida J. Upright Cole and Dr. George LaMont Cole (1849–1918), a Los Angeles-area physician interested in southwestern archaeology.^[4] After graduating from Northwestern University in 1903, he did graduate work researching the Itneg people in the north of the then-American territory of the Philippine Islands at the University of Chicago, the Uni