Ross E. Dunn is an American historian and writer, the author of several books including ''The Adventures of Ibn Battuta'', and coauthor of the highly cited ''History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past''. He is

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at San Diego State University. ''The Adventures of Ibn Battuta'' is based on the travels of the famous 14th-century Muslim adventurer

Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...

. He traveled from

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to China; however, the book mostly focuses on his travels between his hometown in Morocco to

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. The book was first published in 1986 and reissued in 2005 by

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. Dunn did his graduate studies in the program in

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at the

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, receiving his Ph.D. in 1970. He was president of the World History Association in 1984.. Manning cites Dunn and

Michael Adas Michael Adas (born 4 February 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and ...

as two "outstanding instances" of students from the Wisconsin program. Dunn is currently the Co-Director for World History, working closely with the

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