Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department at the

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; he was a student of

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. Most famously, he was a witness for the defense for

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at the Scopes Trial. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1903 and became Assistant Curator of Anthropology of at the

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the following year. He led the museum's Philippine expeditions, collecting more than 5,000 objects, traveling together with his wife,

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, with whom he co-authored ''The Story of Man.'' He helped establish the University of Chicago's graduate program in Anthropology and started an archeological survey of Illinois. 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

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in 1941.

Works

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Chinese pottery in the Philippines, Volume 12
* 1933 ''The Long Road from Savagery to Civilization''. New York and London: Century Co. * 1945 ''The Peoples of Malaysia''. New York: Van Nostrand. * 1956 ''The Bukidnon of the Philippines''. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum.

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Redman, Samuel J. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). 2016. 1881 births 1961 deaths University of Chicago faculty Members of the American Philosophical Society 20th-century American anthropologists {{US-anthropologist-stub