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Richard Bulliet
Professor
Columbia University
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World Area Chair, Personnel Committee, Development Committee, MA in International and World History Program Committee
Biography
Richard Bulliet, professor, specializes in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional history of Islamic countries, and the history of technology. He received his B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Harvard. His publications include: The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History (1972); The Camel and the Wheel (1975); Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979); Islam: The View from the Edge (1994); The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004); Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005); and Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran (forthcoming). He co-edited The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (1996), co-authored The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History (1997), and conceived and edited The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998).
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