Chase F. Robinson

Chase F. Robinson is an American historian . His research focus is on the history of the premodern Middle East .

Life

Robinson studied at Brown University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts . He also attended the American University in Cairo , the University of Cairo and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during his studies . 1992 doctorate he at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University for Ph.D. From 1993 he was active at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford , where he taught until 2008. In addition, from 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University .

From 2008 to June 2013 he was Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York . After serving as interim president , Robinson finally became president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in June 2014 .

The book he edited, The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century won the Waldo G. Leland Prize of the American Historical Association .

Publications (selection)

• Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (2000, Cambridge University Press , ISBN 0-521-781159 )
• (Ed.): A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra (2001, Oxford University Press , Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , ISBN 0-19-728024-2 )
• Islamic Historiography (2003, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521629362 )
• (Ed.): Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honor of DS Richards (2003, EJ Brill , ISBN 978-9004128644 )
• 'Abd al-Malik (2005, Oneworld Press, ISBN 1-85168-361-5 )
• (Ed.): The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century (2010, Cambridge University Press, New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 1, ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8 )
• with Sarah Foot (Ed.): The Oxford History of Historical Writing , Volume 2: Historical Writing, 600-1400 (2012, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-923642-8 )
• Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years (2016, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520292987 )

Web links

• Biography on the City University of New York website