Chase F. Robinson

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academic administrator historian

Chase F. Robinson is a historian and academic administrator known for his scholarship on Islamic history and his leadership roles at major cultural and research institutions.

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Target entity: Chase F. Robinson
Context triple: [Freer Gallery of Art, director, Chase F. Robinson]

A. Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
B. Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton was an influential American jazz drummer and early pioneer of swing-era percussion, best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading New Orleans and Chicago jazz musicians.
C. Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
D. Leonard Randolph Wilkens
Leonard Randolph Wilkens is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach renowned for his long NBA career and for ranking among the league’s all-time leaders in coaching victories.
E. Larry Doby
Larry Doby was a Hall of Fame outfielder who broke the American League’s color barrier and became one of the first prominent Black stars in Major League Baseball.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Chase F. Robinson
Target entity description: Chase F. Robinson is a historian and academic administrator known for his scholarship on Islamic history and his leadership roles at major cultural and research institutions.

A. Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
B. Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton was an influential American jazz drummer and early pioneer of swing-era percussion, best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading New Orleans and Chicago jazz musicians.
C. Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
D. Leonard Randolph Wilkens
Leonard Randolph Wilkens is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach renowned for his long NBA career and for ranking among the league’s all-time leaders in coaching victories.
E. Larry Doby
Larry Doby was a Hall of Fame outfielder who broke the American League’s color barrier and became one of the first prominent Black stars in Major League Baseball.
F. None of above. chosen

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instanceOf	academic administrator ⓘ historian ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in history ⓘ
citizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Brown University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ
employer	City University of New York ⓘ CUNY Graduate Center ⓘ surface form: Graduate Center of the City University of New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ surface form: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale University ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Islamic history ⓘ Middle Eastern history ⓘ late antique and early Islamic history ⓘ
genre	academic writing ⓘ historical scholarship ⓘ
hasRole	author ⓘ editor ⓘ museum director ⓘ university administrator ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	faculty of Yale University ⓘ faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ⓘ
notableFor	leadership of major cultural and research institutions ⓘ scholarship on early Islamic history ⓘ
notableWork	A History of the Islamic World, 600–1800 ⓘ Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia ⓘ Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years ⓘ Islamic Historiography ⓘ The Early Islamic World, 600–1050 ⓘ The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries ⓘ
occupation	academic administrator ⓘ historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ
positionHeld	Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution ⓘ Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Islamic Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ⓘ Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art ⓘ Director of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ⓘ Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ⓘ Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ⓘ Senior Research Scholar at Yale University ⓘ Senior Vice President and Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art ⓘ
researchInterest	Islamic historiography ⓘ early Islamic empire ⓘ late antique Near East ⓘ

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