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Michael Rubin (historian)
Michael Allan Rubin (born 1971) is an American historian, foreign policy analyst, government adviser, and military lecturer. He holds the position of a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues relating to the Middle East, and as political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in US-occupied Iraq.
A native of Philadelphia, Rubin earned both his B.S. in biology (1994) and his Ph.D. in history (1999) from Yale University. His dissertation, The Formation of Modern Iran, 1858–1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society, written under the guidance of Abbas Amanat, won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize.
He spent time with the Taliban before the September 11 attacks of 2001, and lived in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Ba'athist Iraq, and in Yemen.
After teaching history at Yale University (1999–2000), Rubin worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Sulaymaniyah, the Salahaddin University in Erbil, and the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2000–2001). He held consecutive fellowships at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (2000–2001), at the Hebrew University's Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (2001–2002), and at the Council on Foreign Relations (2002–2003).
From 2002 until 2004, Rubin served as a staff adviser on Iran and Iraq for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Between 2003 and 2004, Rubin worked as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.
From 2007 to 2021, he taught Middle Eastern and Horn of Africa politics to U.S. Army, U.S. Marine, and U.S. Navy senior officers and units prior to their deployment in Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan as a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He served as an international election observer during the 2008 Bangladeshi general election. He was also a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2010 and a contract analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office from 2012 to 2024.
In 2023, he became a director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum.
Rubin served as assistant editor of the Iranian Studies journal (1994–1997) and as editor of the Middle East Quarterly (2004–2009). He was also a contributing editor for the online national security website 19FortyFive from 2021 to 2024, while it was headed by J. Beth Gorton.
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Michael Rubin (historian)
Michael Allan Rubin (born 1971) is an American historian, foreign policy analyst, government adviser, and military lecturer. He holds the position of a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues relating to the Middle East, and as political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in US-occupied Iraq.
A native of Philadelphia, Rubin earned both his B.S. in biology (1994) and his Ph.D. in history (1999) from Yale University. His dissertation, The Formation of Modern Iran, 1858–1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society, written under the guidance of Abbas Amanat, won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize.
He spent time with the Taliban before the September 11 attacks of 2001, and lived in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Ba'athist Iraq, and in Yemen.
After teaching history at Yale University (1999–2000), Rubin worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Sulaymaniyah, the Salahaddin University in Erbil, and the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2000–2001). He held consecutive fellowships at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (2000–2001), at the Hebrew University's Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (2001–2002), and at the Council on Foreign Relations (2002–2003).
From 2002 until 2004, Rubin served as a staff adviser on Iran and Iraq for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Between 2003 and 2004, Rubin worked as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.
From 2007 to 2021, he taught Middle Eastern and Horn of Africa politics to U.S. Army, U.S. Marine, and U.S. Navy senior officers and units prior to their deployment in Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan as a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He served as an international election observer during the 2008 Bangladeshi general election. He was also a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2010 and a contract analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office from 2012 to 2024.
In 2023, he became a director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum.
Rubin served as assistant editor of the Iranian Studies journal (1994–1997) and as editor of the Middle East Quarterly (2004–2009). He was also a contributing editor for the online national security website 19FortyFive from 2021 to 2024, while it was headed by J. Beth Gorton.