Richard Bulliet
Richard W. Bulliet is a witty professor of Middle Eastern history. He teaches a class on the domestication of animals and frequently proposes controversial theories like "Islamo-Christian Civilization". Most of his lectures consist of colorful personal anecdotes.
Bulliet is one of only two professors (along with the late J. W. Smit) to have taught all four major Core Curriculum courses (including Lit Hum, Contemporary Civilization, Art Hum and Music Hum). It comes as no surprise, then, that he is one of the professors who teach the Nobility and Civility colloquium.
Bulliet's son, a Columbia alum, works for the New York Post, a shame Bulliet attributes to said son's failure to get into Harvard.
Bulliet has also recently tested the waters of international diplomacy, serving as a mediator between Columbia and the Iranian government to facilitate the 2007 visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[1]
He is predictably the subject of much amusement in The Blue and White and on The Bwog.
References
External links
- The Bulliet Files, a collection of quotes from Bulliet's "Islamo-Christian Civilization" class, on The Bwog
- The Bulliet Files: Part II
- Anti-Bulliet website
