About

Robert Haug is Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati. He received his BA in Geography and History from DePaul University in 1999, his MA in Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002, and his PhD in Near Eastern Studies also from the University of Michigan in 2010. Prof. Haug came to the University of Cincinnati’s History Department in 2010 where he has taught survey courses in World and Middle Eastern History as well as the history of Iran and a variety of upper level courses on the history of the Islamic World including courses on the `Abbasid Caliphate, the Crusades, the history of Afghanistan and Central Asia, and the interaction between nomadic and agrarian societies and the history of punk as a artistic and social movement. His research interests focus on the history of the early Islamic World (7th-13th centuries) with a special interest on the Iranian World and Central Asia. He is the author of The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia, published by I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2019. His current research project is a microhistory of the Arab conquests of Iran and the First and Second Fitnas told through the life of the general, governor, and rebel Abdallah ibn Khazim al-Sulami.

This website began as an ePortfolio developed through the University of Cincinnati’s Faculty Portfolio Initiative as a collection of materials related to my research and teaching interests.