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Richard W. Bulliet — Curriculum Vitae

Education and Training
Employment
Fellowships and Honors
Professional Service
Editorship
Scholarly Books

Richard W. Bulliet
Middle East Institute
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-1741; FAX (212) 854-1413; e-mail rwb3@columbia.edu

Education and Training

Harvard University
BA 1962 in History (magna cum laude)
MA 1964 in Middle East Studies
PhD 1967 in History and Middle East Studies

Employment

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Columbia University

Professor of History, 1978-
Associate Professor of History, 1976-78
Associate Chairman, Department of History, 1979-82, 1983-85
Director, Middle East Institute, 1984-1990, 1993-2000
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, 1988-1990
Chairman, Executive Committee of Arts and Sciences Faculty, 1998-99
Columbia University Press--publication committee 1979-85, 1986-
chairman 1991-
member Board of Trustees 1991-

University of California at Berkeley

Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Studies, 1973-75

Harvard University

Assistant Professor of History, 1969-73
Instructor in History, 1967-69

Fellowships and Honors

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Phi Beta Kappa, 1962

NDFL Fellowships (for Arabic and Turkish), 1962-1965

Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1962

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1965-66

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1965-66

Harvard Center for Middle East Studies Research Fellowship, 1971-72

Guggenheim Fellow, 1975-76

Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology for The Camel and the Wheel, 1977

American-Indian Commission Fellowship, 1990 (resigned)

Professional Service

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Middle East Studies Association

Executive Secretary, 1977-81

Society for Iranian Studies

Member Board of Directors, 1967-68
Member Editorial Board of Iranian Studies, 1985-87

American Institute of Iranian Studies

Trustee at Large, 1977-82

Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 1978-81

Joint Committee on the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 1988-91

World History Pathfinder Project of The College Board, 1991-93

National Standards in World History committee of the National Center for the Study of History, 1992-93

Editorship

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Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, co-editor, Macmillan 1996, 4v.

Columbia Encyclopedia, chief consultant on history for fifth edition

Encyclopedia of Asian History, Associate Editor for Iran and Central Asia

Iranian Studies, Editor, 1987-91

Scholarly Books

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Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relations, Columbia University Press (in press)

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, Columbia University Press, 2004

The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century, editor, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998

The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, co-author, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, co-editor, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996

Under Siege: Islam and Democracy, editor, The Middle East Institute, Columbia University, Occasional Papers 1, 1994

Islam: The View from the Edge, Columbia University Press, 1993

Crisis in the Middle East, supplementary high school current events book, Grolier, Inc.,1992

Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History, Harvard University Press, 1979; Persian translation, Tehran: Nashr-e Tarikh-e Iran, 1987

The Camel and the Wheel, Harvard University Press, 1975; Morninside Edition with new preface, Columbia University Press, 1990

The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History, Harvard University Press, 1972

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