David Christian

Dr. David Gilbert Christian (born 1946) is an Anglo-American historian. Christian was born in Brooklyn, New York, of British and American parents. He grew up in Africa and in England, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Oxford University. Subsequently he taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia for thirty years before moving to San Diego State University in 2002. Originally a historian of Russia who wrote several books on that subject