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Morris Rossabi is an American historian and associate adjunct professor at Columbia University. [1] He specialises in Inner Asian, East Asian, and Chinese history. [1] [2]

Morris Rossabi was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He moved to the United States when he was young and then received his PhD from Columbia University in 1970. [2]

He was a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College, [3] and is a published author. [4] He received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia in 2009. [2] In 2011, he also delivered the W. Allyn Rickett-endowed lecture at University of Pennsylvania about Mongol influence on Ming China. [5] He received a Certificate of Merit from the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Mongolian Embassy to the United Nations in 2021. [1]

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