Bruce Cole is the eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was born in Ohio and attended Case Western Reserve University. He earned his master's degree from Oberlin College and his doctorate from Bryn Mawr College. For two years he was the William E. Suida Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has held fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Kress Foundation, American Philosophical Society, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a corresponding member of the Accademia Senese degli Intronati, the oldest learned society in Europe, and a founder and former co-president of the Association for Art History. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus located in Cleveland Heights. ... Oberlin College is a small, selective liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, in the United States. ... “Bryn Mawr” redirects here. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation funds the Guggenheim Museums. ... The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919, is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations. ... The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded as the Junto in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. ... Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ...

He and his wife Doreen live in the District of Columbia and have two grown children. ...

NEH Chairman

As NEH chairman, Cole has launched We the People, an initiative to encourage the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Under Cole's leadership the NEH's budget has increased for research, preservation, education, and public programs on American history and culture and for the study of culture in other lands and in earlier civilizations. Pre-Colonial America For details, see the main Pre-Colonial America article. ...

Cole came to the Endowment in December 2001 from Indiana University in Bloomington where he was Distinguished Professor of Art History and Professor of Comparative Literature. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Cole was chosen for a second term in 2005, a reappointment unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate. Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. ... Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: County Monroe Mayor Mark Kruzan Area    - City 51. ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ...

Cole’s connection with the Endowment dates back to his receiving an NEH fellowship to research early Florentine painting. He subsequently served as a panelist in NEH's peer review system, and then as a member for seven years of the National Council on the Humanities, a presidentially appointed 26-member advisory board to NEH. Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. ...

Written works

Cole has written fourteen books, many of them about the Renaissance. They include:

• The Renaissance Artist at Work
• Sienese Painting in the Age of the Renaissance
• Italian Art, 1250-1550: The Relation of Art to Life and Society
• Titian and Venetian Art, 1450-1590
• Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism
• The Informed Eye: Understanding Masterpieces of Western Art

External links

• Cole's bio on NEH site