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Ross Dunn is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. He was the first elected president of the World History Association, and he is a recipient of that organization’s Pioneers of World History award. Dunn’s book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta is widely used in both world and Islamic history classrooms, and History on Trial figured in an engrossing national controversy over history learning standards. Dunn’s The New World History has made a major contribution to the advance of world history studies.
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