Publications:

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, Director

BOOKS

  1. Cole, Thomas and Sally Gadow, (eds.) What Does It Mean to Grow Old?:  Reflections from the Humanities.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986.
  2. Polisar, Donna, Thomas Cole, Larry Wygant, and Cielo Perdomo.  Where Do We Come From?  What Are We?  Where Are We Going?:  An Annotated Bibliography of Aging and the Humanities.  Washington, D.C.: Gerontological Society of America, 1988.
  3. Cole, Thomas.  The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  4. Cole, Thomas, David Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.) Handbook of the Humanities and Aging.  Springer Publishing Co., 1992.
  5. Cole, Thomas, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Patricia Jakobi, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.)  Voices and Visions of Aging: a Critical Gerontology.  Springer Publishing Co., 1993.
  6. Cole, Thomas and Mary G. Winkler, (eds.)  The Oxford Book of Aging.  Oxford University Press, 1994.
  7. Cole, Thomas.  No Color Is My Kind:  The Life of  Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston, Texas. University of Texas Press, 1997.
  8. Cole, Thomas, Ruth Ray, and Robert Kastenbaum (eds.)  Second Edition, Handbook of the Humanities and Aging.  Springer Publishing Co., 1999.
  9. Cole, Thomas (Project Director), On Equal Footing: A Memoir, by Quentin R. Mease, Eakin’s Press, 2001.
  10. Carson, R.A., Chester Burns and Thomas R. Cole (eds.) Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Cole, Thomas and Barbara Thompson (Eds), “Anti-Aging: Are You for It Or Against It?,” Generations, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2.
  2. Cole, Thomas, ““Aging” is Going out of Style.” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 6-7.
  3. Cole, Thomas, “The Fall of Daedalus,” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 66-68.
  4. Gregory, Ryan S. and Thomas R. Cole, “The Changing Role of Dissection in Medical Education,” JAMA, March 6, 2002, Vol. 287, No. 9, 1180-1181.
  5. Cole, Thomas, “To Grow in Wisdom,” Tikkun, Volume 17, No. 3, May 2002, 50-52.
  6. Cole, Thomas, “Fragments of a Midlife: Rethinking One’s Own Story,” Generations 27:3 (Fall, 2003) 77-81
  7. Cole, Thomas, “On the Possibilities of Spirituality and Religious Humanism in Gerontology” Aging, Spirituality, Religion, Volume 2, Ed. by Melvin Kimble and Susan McFadden, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003, pp. 434-448.
  8. Cole, Thomas and Faith Lagay, “How the Medical Humanities can Help Revitalize Humanism and How a Reconfigured Humanist can Help Nourish the Medical Humanities” in Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 157-177.
  9. Cole, Thomas and Edwards, Claudia, “The 19th Century.”  In The Long History of Old Age, Ed. Pat Thane, London:  Thames & Hudson, Ltd.:2005, 211-261.
  10. Cole, Thomas, “The Multiple Meanings of Stories: Scholarship, Self-knowledge, Cultural Transmission, Public Service, and the Sacred” Introduction to: Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2006.
  11. Cole, Thomas, Michelle Sierpina, “Humanistic Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Aging.” forthcoming in K. Ferraro & J. Wilmouth (eds.) Gerontology:  Perspectives and Issues, 3rd Edition, (2006)

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

  1. Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: How Houston Desegregated Its Public Accommodations, 1959-1963" distributed by California Newsreel, 1997. 
  2. Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy" a film for medical education and public broadcasting distributed by Fanlight Productions, 2001.
  3. Cole, Thomas, creator and senior editorial consultant; “Life Stories”, a PBS sponsored film distributed by New River Media, 2001.

TRAINING VIDEOS

  1. Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, Visible Lives: Story Boarding for Nursing Home Patients (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning: 2005)
  2. Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, “Share Your Life Story: A Program of Writing Workshops for Elders” (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning, 2005)