Morris Rossabi

{{short description|American historian}}

Morris Rossabi is an American historian and associate adjunct professor at Columbia University.{{Cite web |url=http://ealac.columbia.edu/portfolio-items/morris-rossabi |title=Morris Rossabi |publisher=columbia.edu |accessdate=February 27, 2022}} He specialises in Inner Asian, East Asian, and Chinese history.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/users/mrossabi |title=Morris Rossabi |publisher=Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |accessdate=February 27, 2022}}

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.

He was a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College,{{Cite web |url=http://weai.columbia.edu/morris-rossabi/ |title=Morris Rossabi |publisher=columbia.edu |accessdate=November 30, 2016 |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201143350/http://weai.columbia.edu/morris-rossabi/ |url-status=dead }} and is a published author.{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81077075/ |title=Rossabi, Morris |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=November 30, 2016}} He received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia in 2009. In 2011, he also delivered the W. Allyn Rickett-endowed lecture at University of Pennsylvania about Mongol influence on Ming China.{{Cite web |url=http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DSS/History/People/Pages/default.aspx |title=Morris Rossabi |publisher=cuny.edu |accessdate=November 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311003620/http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DSS/History/People/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=March 11, 2018 |url-status=dead }} He received a Certificate of Merit from the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Mongolian Embassy to the United Nations in 2021.