Ross E. Dunn

Ross Edmunds Dunn is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University, where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. He is an Associate Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA, and he directs World History for Us All, an online model curriculum for schools. [http://worldhistoryforusall.ss.ucla.edu]. He is a founding member of the Alliance for Learning in World History, a collaborative project initiated in 2012 to advance world history education.

Ross has written on North African history, world history, and history education. His first book was Resistance in the Desert: Moroccan Responses to French Imperialism, 1881-1912 (1977). His work titled The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (1987) has appeared in its third edition and in Indonesian, Italian, Malayan, and Turkish. He is coauthor with Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree of History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (1997). Ross and Laura J. Mitchel (UC Irvine) wrote Panorama: A World History (McGraw-Hill Education 2015). He is co-editor with Laura J. Mitchell and Kerry Ward of The New World History: A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers (University of California Press, 2016). He joined with Edmund Burke and David Christian to write The Big Eras: A Compact History of the World for Teachers and Students (National Center for History in the Schools.) Ross was the first elected president of the World History Association (1983-85).