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Event Detail
Morningside Heights
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
The Middle East Institute (MEI) and SIPA present the fifth and final lecture in the spring 2008 series—"Three decades of the Islamic Republic of Iran," with Richard W. Bulliet, Ph.D (Professor of History, Columbia University).
Co-sponsored with:
CU Office of the President
School of International and Public Affairs
Iranians at SIPA
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).
