David Christian Biography

DAVID CHRISTIAN is leading figure in one of the most exciting developments in contemporary intellectual exploration the study of Big History. Supported and funded by Bill Gates he is creating online courses and presentations to promulgate this breakthrough notion that the contemporary world and the issues we confront are best understood and best addressed by coming to terms with the long view of Big History.
Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union but since the 1980s he has become interested in World History on very large scales. He taught at Macquarie University in Sydney from 1975 to 2000 before taking up a position at San Diego State University in 2001. In January 2009 he returned to Macquarie University. He has written on the social and material history of the 19th century Russian peasantry in particular on aspects of diet and the role of alcohol. He has also written a text book history of modern Russia and a synoptic history of Inner Eurasia (Russia Central Asia and Mongolia). In 1989 he began teaching courses on 'Big History' surveying the past on the largest possible scales including those of biology and astronomy; and in 2004 he published the first text on 'Big History'. At San Diego State University he taught courses on World History 'Big History' World Environmental History Russian History and the History of Inner Eurasia.

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