Ross Dunn
Ross Dunn is Professor Emeritus in the department, where he has taught African, Islamic, and world history. He has published in these fields, as well as on the problems of conceptualizing and teaching world-scale history. His book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century (University of California Press) has just been published in a second, revised edition. It has also appeared in editions in Italian, Turkish, and Indonesian. His other works include Resistance in the Desert: Moroccan Responses to French Imperialism, 1881-1912 (University of Wisconsin Press);The New World History: A Teacher’s Companion (Bedford St. Martin’s); and History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (Alfred Knopf) co-authored with Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree. He was Senior Author of a world history textbook for high school students titled World History: Links across Time and Place (McDougal Littell). He serves as Director of World History Projects for the National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA), and from 1993 to 1996, he was Coordinating Editor of the National Standards for World History. He is currently working on a new world history textbook for college students in collaboration with Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and Markus Vink. He is director of World History for Us All, a web-based model curriculum for world history in middle and high schools (http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu) This is a project of SDSU in cooperation with the National Center for History in the Schools. He served from 1982-84 as the first elected president of the World History Association.