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Alan Mikhail 2019

Yale University T: (203) 432-1353

Department of History F: (203) 432-7587

PO Box 208324 [email protected]

New Haven, CT 06520-8324 www.alanmikhail.org

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013 to Present Professor, Department of History, Yale University

2018 to Present Chair, Department of History, Yale University

2010 to 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University

2008 to 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities Postdoctoral

Fellow, Department of History, Stanford University

EDUCATION

2008 PhD, History, University of California, Berkeley

The Nature of Ottoman Egypt: Irrigation, Environment, and

Bureaucracy in the Long Eighteenth Century

Winner, 2009 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social

Sciences, Middle East Studies Association

Winner, 2008 James H. Kettner Dissertation Award, University of

California, Berkeley

2003 MA, History, University of California, Berkeley

2001 BA, History and Chemistry, Rice University

PUBLICATIONS

Books

God’s Shadow: The Untold Story of Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the

Modern World. New York: Liveright/W. W. Norton, August 2020.

Contracted Editions and Translations: UK (Faber and Faber), Chinese (CITIC), Dutch

(Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep), Turkish (Epsilon)

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Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Winner, 2018 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Winner, 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

Reviewed in American Historical Review; Choice; Metascience; Environmental History;

English Historical Review; Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture;

Paysage Topscape; Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and

Sciences; International Journal of Turkish Studies

University of Chicago Press Paperback, 2019. Turkish Translation under Contract with

Iş Bankası. Arabic Translation under Contract with Arab Scientific Publishers.

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Winner, 2014 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, Yale

University

Reviewed in American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies,

Environmental History, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Middle

East Journal, Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, Religions, International Journal of Turkish

Studies, Arab Studies Journal

Interview with The MacMillan Report

Oxford University Press Paperback, 2017.

ed., Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2013.

Reviewed in American Historical Review, Foreign Affairs, Choice, International Journal

of Turkish Studies, Journal of Islamic Studies, Middle East Report, Landscape History,

Arab Studies Quarterly, Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Teaching History,

Middle East Media and Book Reviews, El Gouna Magazine

Oxford University Press Paperback, 2013

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Studies in Environment and

History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Winner, 2012 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, Yale

University

Winner, 2011 Roger Owen Book Award, Middle East Studies Association

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Winner, 2011 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication,

Yale University

Books of the Year, Ahram Online

Reviewed in American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies

(vols. 44, 45, and 49), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,

Environmental History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Interdisciplinary

History, Social History, Middle East Journal, Turcica, The Arab World Geographer,

Arab Studies Journal, International Journal of Turkish Studies, British Journal of Middle

Eastern Studies, Geographical Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Archives of Natural

History, Agricultural History, Mamlūk Studies Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental

and African Studies, Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi, Bulletin of

the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Kwartalnik Historyczny

Interviews with Jadaliyya, The MacMillan Report, Ottoman History Podcast

Cambridge University Press Paperback, 2012. American University in Cairo Press

Edition, 2012. Turkish Translation under Contract with Iş Bankası. Arabic Translation

under Contract with Āfāq lil-Nashr wa al-Tawzī‘. German Translation under Contract

with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage. Romanian Translation under Contract with

Editura Mega.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Foreword: Ottoman and Nature.” In Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental

History, edited by Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2019.

with Vinita Damodaran, Georgina Endfield, Joelle Gergis, Takehiko Mikami, Sharon Nicolson,

and Astrid Ogilvie. “The Climate Events of the 1780s.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Climate

History, edited by Franz Mauelshagen, Christian Pfister, and Sam White. London: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2018.

“Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” In Plague and Contagion in the Islamic

Mediterranean: New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society, edited by Nükhet Varlık.

Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press, 2017.

“Enlightenment Anthropocene.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 49 (2016): 211-31.

“Climate and the Chronology of Iranian History.” Iranian Studies 49 (2016): 963-72.

“The Nile and Food in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.” In Water and Food: From Hunter-

Gatherers to Global Production in Africa, edited by Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard. Vol. 3 of

Series III of A History of Water. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

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“Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History.” Environmental History 20 (2015): 262-84.

Winner, 2015 Leopold-Hidy Prize, American Society for Environmental History

Interview with Ottoman History Podcast

“A Dog-Eat-Dog Empire: Violence and Affection on the Streets of Ottoman Cairo.”

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (2015): 76-95.

Japanese Translation: “Kōto Ryōku no Teikoku: Osuman Ki Kairo no Gairo niokeru

Bōryoku to Aijō.” Toshi Bunka Kenkyū 21 (2019): 96-114.

“Engineering the Ottoman Empire: Irrigation and the Persistence of Early Modern Expertise.” In

Ottoman Rural Societies and Economies, edited by Elias Kolovos. Rethymno: Crete University

Press, 2015.

“War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy.” In Asia Inside Out:

Connected Places, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge:

Harvard University Press, 2015.

“Oriental Democracy.” Global Environment 7 (2014): 381-404.

“Labor and Environment in Egypt since 1500.” International Labor and Working-Class History

85 (2014): 10-32.

“Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt.”

American Historical Review 118 (2013): 317-48.

Winner, 2013 Alice Hamilton Prize, American Society for Environmental History

Winner, 2013 Wayne D. Rasmussen Award, Agricultural History Society

“Anatolian Timber and Egyptian Grain: Things that Made the Ottoman Empire.” In Early

Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800, edited by Paula Findlen. New York:

Routledge, 2013.

“Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields.” In Water on Sand:

Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Alan Mikhail. New

York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Plague and Environment in Late Ottoman Egypt.” In Water on Sand: Environmental Histories

of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Alan Mikhail. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2013.

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with Christine M. Philliou. “The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn.” Comparative Studies

in Society and History 54 (2012): 721-45.

Turkish Translation: “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Emperyal Dönüşüm.” Toplumsal Tarih

234 (2013): 26-40.

“The Middle East in Global Environmental History.” In A Companion to Global Environmental

History, edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

“Global Implications of the Middle Eastern Environment.” History Compass 9 (2011): 952-70.

“al-Mawt bayna al-Mumārasa al-Ijtimā‘īyya wa al-Ḥajr al-Ṣiḥḥī li-Muḥammad ‘Alī” [Death

between Social Practice and Muhammad ‘Ali’s Quarantine]. al-Rūznāma 9 (2011): 227-45.

“From the Bottom Up: The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt.” In Environmental

Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke

III. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.

“An Irrigated Empire: The View from Ottoman Fayyum.” International Journal of Middle East

Studies 42 (2010): 569-90.

Winner, 2011 Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Association

“Animals as Property in Early Modern Ottoman Egypt.” Journal of the Economic and Social

History of the Orient 53 (2010): 621-52.

“The Nature of Plague in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine

82 (2008): 249-75.

“Tārīkh Dirāsāt al-Tābi‘ wa Naẓariyyatayn ‘an al-Sulṭa” [Subaltern Studies and Two Theories of

Power]. In Thaqāfat al-Nukhba wa Thaqāfat al-‘Āmma fī Miṣr fī al-‘Aṣr al-‘Uthmānī [Elite and

Popular Culture in Egypt in the Ottoman Period], edited by Nāṣir Aḥmad Ibrāhīm. Cairo:

Markaz al-Buḥūth wa al-Dirāsāt al-Ijtimā‘iyya, 2008.

“The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House.” In Ottoman Tulips,

Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Dana Sajdi. London:

I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Turkish Translation: “Gönül Arzu Eder ki: Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Kentsel Mekân ve

Osmanlı Kahvehaneleri.” In Osmanlı Laleleri, Osmanlı Kahvehaneleri: On Sekizinci

Yüzyılda Hayat Tarzı ve Boş Vakit Eğlenceleri, edited by Dana Sajdi. Istanbul: Koç

Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2014.

with Gretchen Head. “Dirāsat al-Tābi‘: I‘ādat Kitābat al-Tārīkh” [Subaltern Studies: The

Rewriting of History]. Akhbār al-Adab 587 (10 October 2004).

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“al-Qāmūs wa al-Istishrāq” [The Lexicon and Orientalism]. Wijhāt Naẓar 6, no. 66 (July 2004).

“Narrative Borders and the Politics of New History.” In Imagining Place and Rethinking

Historiography. Vol. 146 of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series.

Berkeley: University of California Center for Environmental Design Research, 2002.

with Joel E. Boyd, Ari Briskman, Vicki Colvin, and Daniel Mittleman. “Size-Dependent

Dielectric Properties of Liquid Water Clusters.” In Liquid Dynamics: Experiment, Simulation,

and Theory, edited by John T. Fourkas. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 2002.

Forums, Interviews, and Other Writing

Interviews about Positive Developments in Yale Department of History

Eric Alterman, “The Decline of Historical Thinking.” The New Yorker (February

4, 2019).

Jason Daley, “Why Are Fewer People Majoring in History?” Smithsonian

Magazine (November 29, 2018).

Colleen Flaherty, “The Vanishing History Major.” Inside Higher Ed (November

27, 2018).

Elizabeth Elliott, “Yale History’s Major Comeback.” AHA Today (May 11,

2017).

“Water: A Matter of Life and Death.” BBC World Histories 9 (April/May 2018): 64-65.

“Studying the Past through the Lens of Environmental History.” Interview with YaleNews,

March 2018. https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/09/alan-mikhail-studying-past-through-lens-

environmental-history.

“Dogs in Ancient Islamic Culture.” Oxford University Press Blog, July 2017.

https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/dogs-ancient-islamic-culture/. Reposted Widely.

“Imperial Consequences of Things.” Interview with Selim Karlıtekin. Comparative Studies of

South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Posted on Borderlines, February 2015.

https://cssaamejournal.org/borderlines/imperial-consequences-of-things/. Reposted on

Jadaliyya, March 2015.

Arabic Translation: http://alaalam.org/ar/interviews-ar/item/693%D8%B1%D8%B1

“Nile Frames.” Portal 9 4 (2014).

Author’s Response to Roundtable Review of Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt and The

Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. H-Environment Roundtable

Reviews, vol. 3, no. 8 (2013). https://www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-3-

8.pdf.

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Invited Comment on Harriet Ritvo, “Going Forth and Multiplying: Animal Acclimatization and

Invasion.” National Humanities Center, November 2011.

http://www.onthehuman.org/2011/11/going-forth-and-multiplying/

“Getting a Job.” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40 (2006): 131-37.

Book Reviews

James L. Hevia, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

2018). Featured Review. American Historical Review 124 (2019).

“Is the West Really the Best?’ Review of J. C. Sharman, Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of

European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 2019). New York Times Book Review (March 3, 2019).

“Old World Order.” Review of John Julius Norwich, Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I,

Chares V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (New

York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017). New York Times Book Review (May 5, 2017).

Benjamin Reilly, Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula (Athens: Ohio

University Press, 2015). Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90: 4 (Winter 2016).

“England’s Muslim Monarch.” Review of Jerry Brotton, The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold

Story of Elizabeth and Islam (New York: Viking, 2016). Wall Street Journal (November 5-6,

2016).

Basheer Ahmad Masri, Les animaux en Islam, trans. Sébastien Sarméjeanne (Paris: Droits des

Animaux, 2015). Les cahiers de l’Islam (September 2015).

H. Erdem Çıpa and Emine Fetvacı, eds., Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past,

Fashioning the Future (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Journal of Arabic

Literature 45: 3 (2014).

Baki Tezcan, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early

Modern World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Journal of Interdisciplinary

History 42: 3 (Winter 2012).

Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial

Expansion in North Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). International Journal of

Middle East Studies 41: 3 (August 2009).

Carlos E. Cordova, Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural

Ecology (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). Agricultural History 83: 1 (Winter 2009).

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Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and

Yemen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003). MIT Electronic Journal of Middle

East Studies 7 (Spring 2007).

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban

Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Arab Studies Journal

14: 2/15: 1 (Fall 2006/Spring 2007).

Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 2002). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40: 2 (Winter 2006).

Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the

Eighteenth Century (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003). Middle East Studies

Association Bulletin 40: 2 (Winter 2006).

Stuart J. Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (Austin: The

University of Texas Press, 2005). al-Waqā’i‘ al-Miṣriyya (Fall 2006).

Amy J. Johnson, Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian

Development (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004). Hawwa: Journal of Women of the

Middle East and the Islamic World 3: 3 (Winter 2005).

Encyclopedia Entries

“Gambling.” In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. 2 Vols. New York:

Routledge, 2005.

“Beni Suef,” “Heliopolis,” and “Tanta.” In The City and Urban Life. 3 Vols. New York: M.E.

Sharpe, 2005.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Anneliese Maier Research Award 2018-2023

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize 2018

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2017

Whitney Humanities Center Fellowship, 2016-2018

Yale University

Leopold-Hidy Article Prize, American Society 2015

for Environmental History

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Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, 2015

Yale University

Humanities/Humanity Workshop Funding, 2014-2015

Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University

Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, 2014

Yale University

Hawkinson Award, Department of History, 2013-2014

Yale University

Wayne D. Rasmussen Article Award, 2013

Agricultural History Society

Alice Hamilton Article Prize, American Society for 2013

Environmental History

Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, 2012

Yale University

Institute of Turkish Studies Sabbatical Grant 2012-2013

MacMillan Center Faculty Research Grant, Yale University 2012-2013

Morse Fellowship, Yale University 2012-2013

MacMillan Center Research Fellow in International and 2011-2013

Area Studies, Yale University

Roger Owen Book Award, Middle East Studies Association 2011

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding 2011

Scholarly Publication, Yale University

Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund, Yale University 2011

Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize, Turkish Studies Association 2011

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, 2009

Middle East Studies Association

James H. Kettner Dissertation Award, University of California, 2008

Berkeley

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Stanford University Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of 2008-2010

Scholars in the Humanities Postdoctoral Program

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary 2008-2009

Arab Studies, Georgetown University (Declined)

Hamad Bin Khalifa Fellowship 2007

Andrew W. Mellon Grant 2007

Council of American Overseas Research Centers 2006-2007

Multi-Country Research Fellowship

American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship 2006-2007

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research 2005-2006

Abroad Fellowship

Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship II 2005-2006

American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship (Declined) 2005-2006

Institute of Turkish Studies Grant 2005

Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Grant, 2005

University of California, Berkeley (Declined)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 2004-2005

Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship I 2003-2004

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Invited Lectures

“Columbus the Muslim.” Department of History. University of Bamberg, July 2019.

“Columbus the Muslim.” Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies and Institute for Islamic

Studies. University of Heidelberg, July 2019.

“Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa.” Rachel Carson Center for

Environment and Society. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, July 2019.

“Columbus the Muslim.” Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture. Bonn University, Annemarie

Schimmel Kolleg, June 2019.

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“Columbus the Muslim.” Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies. Freie

Universität Berlin, June 2019.

“Food and Wood between the Mediterranean and Red Sea: Economy and Ecology in the

Ottoman Empire.” Keynote Lecture at “Natural Things: Collection and the History of Science in

the Age of Global Empires.” Hamilton College, April 2019.

“Iceland and the Ottoman Empire: Climate Connections.” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Anneliese Maier Research Awards Ceremony and Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Berlin,

September 2018.

“Columbus the Muslim.” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. University of Michigan,

April 2018.

“Live Stocks: Animals and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.” Center for the

Humanities. University of Miami, February 2018.

“The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History.” Department of History. Brandeis

University, September 2017.

“Columbus and Islam.” Indian Ocean World Centre. McGill University, April 2017.

“Egypt versus the Icelandic Volcano.” Whitney Humanities Center. Yale University, April

2017.


Human-Animal Studies Seminar. Columbia University, January 2017.

“Middle East Climate History: Dispatches from Ottoman Iceland.” Keynote Address at the

Conference “Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies.” Bonn

University, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, December 2016.

“Toward a Global Climate History of the 1780s: Iceland and Egypt.” Climate Change and

History Research Initiative. Princeton University, November 2016.

“Wood and Food: How and Why to Build Ships in Ottoman Suez.” Centre for the Comparative

Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures Annual Lecture Series. Simon Fraser University,

November 2016.

“Iceland, Egypt, Istanbul, Climate.” Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and

Cultures Annual Lecture Series. Simon Fraser University, November 2016.

“When Iceland Turned Ottoman.” Ottoman and Turkish Studies Seminar. Columbia University,

September 2016.

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“Ottoman Iceland.” Department of History Lecture Series “Empires and Environments:

Encounters, Ecologies, and Histories in Global Context.” Pomona College, March 2015.

“Animals and Islamic Law in Ottoman Egypt.” Animals in the Law and Humanities Working

Group at the Jackson Humanities Institute. University of Toronto, February 2015.

“An Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene?” Department of Geography Colloquium. University of

California, Berkeley, November 2014.

“Early Modern Climate Change as Global History: An Example from Ottoman Iceland.”

Featured Speaker in the Conference “Knowing Nature in the Medieval and Early Modern

Worlds.” University of Maryland, October 2014.

“Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History.” Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies Brown

Bag Lunch Series. Princeton University, October 2014.


Environmental History Workshop. Brown University, September 2014.

“Iceland, Egypt, Anthropocene.” Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science and Human Culture.

Northwestern University, April 2014.

“Ottoman Egypt: The Icelandic Connection.” Center for Near Eastern Studies. University of

California, Los Angeles, March 2014.

“The Animal in Ottoman Egypt.” Environmental History Colloquium Series. Yale University,

December 2013.

“Brute Force: Livestock and Labor in Ottoman Egypt, 1750-1850.” Islamicate Cultures and

Histories in a Global Context Lecture Series. College of William and Mary, April 2013.

“Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” Turkey

and Modernity Speaker Series. Ohio State University, April 2013.

“Livestock, Labor, Land, and the Making of Modern Egypt.” Department of Middle Eastern and

Islamic Studies. New York University, February 2013.

“Brute Force: Livestock, Labor, and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.” Department

of History. University of California, Berkeley, January 2013.

“When Animals Stop Working: An Economy of Labor Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.”

Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History. Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

November 2012.

“Livestock, Labor, and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.” Department of History.

İstanbul Bilgi University, November 2012.

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“The Economy of Human and Animal Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” Department of History.

İstanbul Şehir University, October 2012.

“Paris, Cairo, Zoo.” Department of History. Stanford University, May 2012.

“Empire of Animals: Ottomans and Other Creatures.” In the Lecture Series “Middle Eastern

Environments and Ecologies.” Yale University, March 2012.

with Christine M. Philliou. “The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn.” International History

Workshop. Yale University, January 2012.

“Why Should We Care about Animals in the Ottoman Empire?” Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Seminar. Columbia University, October 2011.

“Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Lecture Series “People, Animals and the

Environment in the Balkans and the Near East.” İstanbul Bilgi University and Orient-Institut

Istanbul, May 2011.

“A Wandering Cow, a Scurrying Gecko, and Some Dogs: Toward a History of Animals in the

Middle East.” Plenary Address for the Conference “The Nonhuman, the Subhuman, and the

Superhuman: Exploring Nature(s) in the Middle East.” University of Pennsylvania, April 2011.

“Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields.” Environmental History

Colloquium Series. Yale University, February 2011.

“Ottoman Egypt: An Animal History.” Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series. Yale University,

February 2011.

“Coffee and Coffeehouses.” In the Lecture Series “Turqurie: Ottoman Fashions in Europe as

Intercultural Exchange, 17th and 18th Centuries.” Princeton University, December 2010.

“Sacks of Grain, Stacks of Wood, and Some Limits of the Early Modern Ottoman Economy.”

Program in Ottoman Studies. New York University, December 2010.

“Animals, Energy, Economy in Late Ottoman Egypt.” In the Lecture Series “Dissections: Sex,

Science, and Medicine in the Middle East and North Africa.” Graduate Center of the City

University of New York, November 2010.

“Irrigation and the Ottoman Empire.” Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium Series. Yale

University, November 2010.

“Downstream in the Ottoman Empire: Irrigation and Early Modern Empire.” Program in the

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Health. Rutgers University, October 2010.

“Unleashing the Beast: A History of Human-Animal Relations in Ottoman Egypt.” Department

of History. University of California, Davis, April 2010.

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“An Irrigated Empire: The View from Ottoman Fayyoum.” Islamic Studies Workshop Series.

Stanford University, November 2009.

“Piles of History: The Nile, Dirt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt.” Middle East Studies

Luncheon Lecture Series. University of California, Berkeley, September 2009.

“Coffee: A Caffeinated History of the Middle East.”

(1) Middle East and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. San Francisco State

University, April 2009.

(2) Middle East Studies Lecture Series. Drew University, April 2009.

“The Framework of Empire: A History of Wood and Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” Department of

History. Yale University, February 2008.

“Imperial Lumberings: A History of Wood in Ottoman Egypt.” Department of History.

Georgetown University, February 2008.

“How to Build Ships in Ottoman Suez: A History of Food and Wood in Early Modern North

Africa.” Department of History. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 2008.

“Provisions for the Pilgrimage: Food and Wood in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.”

Department of History. University of Pittsburgh, January 2008.

“Irrigating Alexandria: Labors of Life and Death on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.”

(1) Department of History. Vanderbilt University, January 2008.

(2) Department of History. Queens College, December 2007.

(3) Department of History. Iowa State University, December 2007.

(4) Department of History. Swarthmore College, December 2007.

(5) Department of History. Florida State University, December 2007.

(6) Department of History. University of Montana, November 2007.

(7) Department of History. Virginia Tech, November 2007.

(8) Department of History. University of South Carolina, November 2007.

“Counting Men, Measuring Canals, Drawing Maps: The Science of Irrigation in Ottoman

Egypt.” Le Centre d’études et de documentations économiques, juridiques et sociales. Cairo,

Egypt, May 2007.

with Jennifer Derr. “Soiling History: The Environmental as a Framework of Analysis”.

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Modern Middle East Studies. American University in Cairo,

Egypt, May 2007.

“A History of Animals in Ottoman Egypt.” American Research Center in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt,

May 2007.

“Why Build the Maḥmūdiyya Canal?” Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire. Cairo,

Egypt, June 2006.

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“A Labor of Death: Constructing Life on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” American Research Center

in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt, June 2006.

“Coffee and Society in the History of the Middle East.” The American Center Alexandria.

Alexandria, Egypt, February 2006.

Invited Conference Papers

“The Animal in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Conference “Marginal Social Groups’ Experiences of

Modernity: Building Bridges between Historians of Asia in Japan and the West.” Osaka City

University, May 2019.

“The Nature of the Ottoman Economy.” In the Conference “Histories of Economy in the Middle

East.” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2018.

Contribution to “What is a Humanistic Answer?” Roundtable at “Ten Years of Interdisciplinary

Humanities: Five Questions.” Stanford University, May 2017.

Contribution to “Conceptualizing a Persianate Oecumene in the Early Modern Period.” Closing

Roundtable of the Ehsan Yarshater Lectures “Iran, India, and Europe: Early Modern Connected

Histories” by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Yale University, April 2017.

“Climate and Crisis in a Place Called Ottoman Iceland.” In the Conference “Displacement and

the Making of the Modern World: Histories, Ecologies, and Subjectivities.” Brown University,

April 2017.

“Water in Ottoman Egypt.” As part of the Roundtable “Political Thirst: The Control of Water in

North Africa.” Smith College, February 2017.

“Ottoman Iceland.” In the Conference “Ottoman Topologies: Spatial Experience in an Early

Modern Empire and Beyond.” Stanford University, May 2014.

“Peasants versus the Volcano: An Environmental History of Iceland and Egypt.” In “Global

Environmental History: A Symposium.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March

2014.

“Engineering Institutions: Irrigation and the Persistence of Early Modern Expertise in Ottoman

Egypt.” In “Economic and Political Institutions of Islam: Past and Present.” Association for

Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies. Princeton University, October 2013.

“War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy.” World Studies

Interdisciplinary Program at the Conference “Rethinking Marxism.” University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2013.

“Animals and the Ottoman Empire.” In “Late Imperial Epistemologies: A Eurasian Studies

Workshop.” Columbia University, May 2013.

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“Ottoman Egypt’s Animal Energy Regime.” In the Conference “Communities Like You:

Animals and Islam.” Harvard University, April 2013.

“Humans and Animals.” In the “Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Workshop.”

Trinity College, April 2013.

“The Ottoman Empire and Environmental History.” Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop.

University of Guelph, March 2013.

“The Ottoman Empire and Questions of Periodization.” In the “Transitions to Modernity

Colloquium: Early Modern Islamic Empires.” Yale University, November 2012.

“Domestic Animals and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Conference

“Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?” Yale University, February 2012.

“Humans, Domestic Animals, and Rural Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Symposium “Halcyon

Days in Crete VIII: Ottoman Rural Societies and Economies.” University of Crete Institute for

Mediterranean Studies, January 2012.

“Animals and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Symposium “Environment

and Science in Islamic History.” University of Maryland, September 2011.

“Energetics of the Animal Economy in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Workshop “Eighteenth-Century

Crossroads in Ottoman Studies: Negotiating Communal, State, and Moral Boundaries.” Central

European University, Budapest, May 2011.

“Reflections on Archival Fieldwork in Egypt.” In the Workshop “History and the Social

Sciences.” University College London, March 2011.

“A History of the Animal in Ottoman Egypt.” In the Conference “Dogs, Humans, and Other

Animals: A Conversation.” University of California, Berkeley, June 2010.

“Back and Forth in the Ottoman Empire: Archives and Imperial Rule.” In the Roundtable

“Approaches to Ottoman History.” Stanford University, March 2010.

“Anatolian Timber and Egyptian Grain: Things That Made the Ottoman Empire.” In the

Workshop “Early Modern Things.” Stanford University, January 2010.

“Egyptian Water: An Ottoman Solution.” In the Workshop “Water and Environment in the

Middle East.” Harvard University, May 2009.

“Egyptian Sylvan: A History of Wood, ca. 1700 to 1850.” In “The Third Annual Middle East

Center Symposium: Egypt.” Florida State University, February 2009.

“Beyond Center and Province: The Maghreb and Egypt in the Ottoman Period.” In the

Conference “Ottoman Influences in the Maghreb.” Oran, Algeria, June 2007.

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“al-Ḥayāh bayna al-Mumārasa al-Ijtimā‘īyya wa al-Ḥajr al-Ṣiḥḥī li-Muḥammad ‘Alī” [Life

between Social Practice and Muhammad ‘Ali’s Quarantine]. In “Muhammad ‘Ali’s Reign: A

Conference on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of Muhammad ‘Ali’s Rule.” High Council of

Culture, Cairo, Egypt, November 2005.

“The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space, and the Ottoman Coffeehouse.” In the Conference

“Rethinking Culture in the Ottoman Eighteenth Century.” Princeton University, January 2005.

Conference Papers at Professional Meetings

“The Environmental History of the Early Modern Middle East: Needs and Opportunities.” The

American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Denver, January 2017.

Contribution to “The Middle East and Global Environmental Historiography.” Roundtable at the

Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Boston, November 2016.

Contribution to “25 Years of Nature’s Metropolis.” The Organization of American Historians

Annual Meeting. Providence, April 2016.

Contribution to “Diversity and Environmental History: Reflections on Scholarship, Scholars, and

Building Community.” Roundtable at the American Society for Environmental History Annual

Meeting. Washington, D.C., March 2015.

“The Science of Posthumanism.” The American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New

York City, January 2015.

Contribution to “Expansive Pedagogy: New Sources and Approaches to Teaching the History of

the Early Modern and Modern Middle East.” Roundtable at the Middle East Studies Association

of North America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 2014.

Contribution to “Environment in the Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth-Century Studies

Workshop. Yale University, April 2014.

Contribution to Closing Faculty Panel. In the Conference “New Perspectives in Environmental

History.” Yale University, April 2014.

Contribution to “Edmund Russell’s Evolutionary History: A Critical Appraisal.” Roundtable at

the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. Toronto, April 2013.

“No More Center, No More Periphery: A New Ottoman Geography.” The American Historical

Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, January 2013.

“The Animal in Ottoman Egypt.” The Middle East Studies Association of North America

Annual Meeting. Denver, November 2012.

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“Animals in the Ottoman Empire: The Safavid Connection.” The Ninth Biennial Conference of

the International Society for Iranian Studies. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012.

“Animals, Disease, and Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” The Middle East Studies Association of

North America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., December 2011.

“Before the Zoo: Humans and Animals in Ottoman Egypt.” The American Society for

Environmental History Annual Meeting. Phoenix, April 2011.

“Some Initial Thoughts on Dogs in Ottoman Egypt.” The American Society for Environmental

History Annual Meeting. Portland, March 2010.

“The Peasant Politics of Water in Ottoman Egypt.” The American Historical Association

Annual Meeting. San Diego, January 2010.

“Watering the Rosebud: Silt and Historical Imagination in Ottoman Fayyoum.” The Middle East

Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Boston, November 2009.

“Animals, Property, Law: The Case of Ottoman Egypt.” The American Society for

Environmental History Annual Meeting. Tallahassee, February 2009.

“(Early) Modern Archive Animals.” The Middle East Studies Association of North America

Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 2008.

“Water Be Dammed: A History of Irrigation in Ottoman Fayyoum.” The Middle East Studies

Association of North America Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, November 2007.

“Oxen, Water Buffaloes, Donkeys, and Camels: Humans and Other Animals in Ottoman Egypt.”

The Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting. Iowa State University, June 2007.

“Irrigating Life: Labor, Enumeration, and Biopolitics in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt.”

The American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, January 2007.

“Life and Death on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” The Second World Congress for Middle Eastern

Studies. Amman, Jordan, June 2006.

“Dirāsat al-Tābi‘ wa Naẓarīyyatayn ‘an al-Sulṭa” [Subaltern Studies and Two Theories of

Power]. The Egyptian Association for Historical Studies. Cairo, Egypt, December 2005.

“Quarantining Death: Water and Plague in Egypt, 1775-1825.” The Fourth International Water

History Association Conference: Water and Civilization. Paris, France, December 2005.

“Dying on the Nile at the End of the Eighteenth Century: al-Jabartī’s Accounts of Plague.” The

Social Context of Death, Dying, and Disposal. University of Bath, UK, September 2005.

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“Doctoring Women: Qasim Amin and the Egyptian Family.” The Middle East Studies

Association of North America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, November 2004.

“Obelisks and Mummies: The Scientification of British Egyptology.” The Pacific Coast

Conference on British Studies. University of California, Berkeley, March 2004.

“The Medicalization of the Egyptian Family.” Families and Households in History. The Annual

History Seminar of the Department of Arabic Studies. American University in Cairo, Egypt,

March 2004.

“Narrative Borders and the Politics of New History.” (Un)bounding Tradition: The Tensions of

Borders and Regions. The Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of

Traditional Environments. Hong Kong, December 2002.

“Something’s Brewing: Coffeehouses and Society in the Ottoman Empire.” The Middle East

Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 2002.

“Cutting Text: Foucault and Edward William Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon.” Global

Localities: Theorizing Across Boundaries. University of California, Irvine, November 2002.

“Orientalism and Text: A Theoretical Reading of Edward William Lane’s Arabic-English

Lexicon.” The Seventeenth Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference. University of

Chicago, May 2002.

Conference Panel Organizing, Chairing, and Discussing

Closing Discussant. “Mediators at the Edges of Empire.” Yale InterAsia Initiative Workshop.

Yale University, May 2019.

Discussant, “Marginal Social Groups’ Experiences of Modernity in the Ottoman Empire.”

Marginal Social Groups and Historical Documents in Asia: Japan and the Ottoman Empire.

Yale-Osaka City University Joint Seminar. Yale University, March 2019.

Opening Remarks. “Conference in Honor of Leslie Peirce.” New York University, May 2018.

Chair, “Landscape and Representation.” New Perspectives in Environmental History. Yale


Discussant, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins. Department of French.

Yale University, November 2017.

Discussant, “State of the Field of Modern Middle East History.” Department of History and the

Program in Middle East Studies. Smith College, October 2017.

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Chair, “Violence, Trauma and Persecution in the Restoration.” The Meiji Restoration and Its

Afterlives: Social Change and the Politics of Commemoration. Council on East Asian Studies.

Yale University, September 2017.

Opening Address, “Recent Perspectives on Ceremonies, Rituals, and Festivals in the Ottoman

World.” Yale University, April 2017.

Discussant, “Modern Pests and Old Infrastructures” by Samuel Dolbee. In the Workshop “Soil,

Flesh and Flows: Environmental Temporalities and Expertise in the Middle East.” Harvard

University, March 2017.

Discussant, “Environments of Other Wars.” Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East.

Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 2016.

Discussant, “Teaching and Debating the ‘Anthropocene.’” Whitney Humanities Center. Yale


Discussant, “Nature and Society: Environmental Roots of State Formation in the Modern Middle

East, 18th-20th Century.” The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual

Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 2014.

Chair, “The Middle East.” Institutions, Credit and the State: A History Project Conference.

Yale University, October 2014.

Discussant, “Manufactured Landscapes in the Muslim World: Local Manifestations of Global

Desires.” The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. San Francisco,

March 2014.

Discussant, “Power, Politics, and Middle Eastern Environments.” The American Society for

Environmental History Annual Meeting. San Francisco, March 2014.

Discussant, “‘A Plague of Wild Boars’: Heinz Meynhardt, Kulturlandschaft, and Nature in East

Germany,” by Thomas Fleischman. Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series. Yale University,

March 2014.

Discussant, “Land: Frontiers, Heat, and Water.” Delimiting Egypt: Law, Land, Bodies.

Graduate Center of the City University of New York, February 2014.

Discussant, “Imagined Cartographies and Transformations of Urban Spaces in the Ottoman

Empire.” The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. New

Orleans, October 2013.

Discussant, “After the Imperial Turn: Arab Nation-States and the Ottoman Past.” The Middle

East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, October 2013.

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Chair, “Jews, Arabs, and the Middle East.” Exodus or Exile?: The Departure of Jews from

Muslim Countries, 1948-1978. Program for the Study of Antisemitism. Yale University,

October 2013.

Co-Organizer, “Imagining the Imperial Space: Spatial Experiences in the Ottoman World and

Beyond.” The American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, January 2013.

Chair, “Ottoman Legal Institutions as Obstacles to Growth.” New Perspectives in Ottoman

Economic History. Yale University, November 2012.

Co-Organizer, “Animals in Iranian History.” The Ninth Biennial Conference of the International

Society for Iranian Studies. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012.

Chair, “Is there Something Wrong with How Modern Iranian History Has Been Written so far?”

Workshop on Modern Iranian History. Yale University, May 2012.

Chair, “Wildlife, Humans, and Environmental Change.” Two Kingdoms: New Perspectives on

Flora and Fauna in Environmental History. Yale University, April 2012.

Chair, “Inward and Outward Nature: An Islamic Portrayal of the Spirituality-Environment

Nexus.” Critical Islamic Reflections Conference. Yale University, April 2011.

Organizer and Chair, “The Egyptian National Archives: Recent Changes and Future Directions.”

The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. San Diego, November

2010.

Discussant, “Agriculture and the Politics of Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire: Contesting

Spaces, Managing Populations, and Institutionalizing Knowledge and Practice.” The Middle

East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. San Diego, November 2010.

Discussant, “Le Saint-Simonisme en Égypte: les voies de la modernisation.” International

Conference at the High Council of Culture. Cairo, Egypt, July 2010.

Chair, “Nature and National Identity in the Nineteenth Century.” The American Society for

Environmental History Annual Meeting. Portland, March 2010.

Organizer and Chair, “Middle East Environmental History: An Introduction and Roundtable

Discussion.” The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. Tallahassee,

February 2009.

Organizer, “Egyptian Modern: Norms, Forms, and Sources of the Social Environment.” The

Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.,

November 2008.

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Chair, “Changing Urban Landscapes in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt.” The

Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.,

November 2008.

Organizer, “Ottoman Environmental History: Problems, Sources, Directions.” The Middle East

Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, November 2007.

Chair, “Health Discourse: Reproductive Health.” The Middle East Studies Association of North

America Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, November 2007.

Organizer, “The Politics of Life: Cultivating and Constructing Humanity in the Nile Valley.”

The American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, January 2007.

Chair, “Aspects of Modernity in Egypt.” The Middle East Studies Association of North America

Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November 2005.

TEACHING

Yale University, 2010 to Present

Graduate Seminars:

Agrarian Societies: Culture, Power, History, and Development (co-taught with

Peter Perdue and K. Sivaramakrishnan)

Readings in Ottoman History

Further Readings in Ottoman History

Research in Ottoman History

Sources and the Construction of Middle East History (co-taught with Abbas Amanat)

Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean (co-taught with Francesca Trivellato)

Readings in Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (co-taught with Francesca

Trivellato)

Research Seminar in Middle Eastern History (co-taught with Abbas Amanat)

Undergraduate Lectures:

Three Empires of Islam: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The World Circa 1500 (co-taught with Francesca Trivellato)

The Mediterranean: From the Crusades to Napoleon (co-taught with Francesca

Trivellato)

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Undergraduate Seminars:

The Ottoman Empire

Environmental History of the Middle East

Stanford University, 2008-2010

Undergraduate Lectures:

Three Empires of Islam: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The Ottoman Empire

Undergraduate Seminars:

Sexual Encounters: The Middle East and Europe (co-taught with Edith Sheffer)

Environmental History of the Middle East

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Boards

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, 2013 to Present

Palgrave Macmillan Series in World Environmental History, 2013 to Present

International Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015 to Present

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2019 to Present

Environmental History, 2013-2017

Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yale Advisory Board, 2013-2017

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013-2015

Program Committees

2019 Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, New Orleans

2017 American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Kansas City

2016 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Seattle

Book and Article Prize Committees

2019 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

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2016 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association of North America

2016 Leopold-Hidy Prize, American Society for Environmental History

2015 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, Yale University

2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, Yale University

2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, Yale University

2014 Alice Hamilton Prize, American Society for Environmental History



Advisory Committee

“Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of

Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World.” Canadian Humanities Partnership Grant,

McGill University, 2017 to Present.

Conference Organizing

with Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse. “Middle Eastern Animals: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from

Early Modern to Contemporary Times.” University of Vienna, June 2019.

with Ellen Nye. “Trading Worlds: Oceans, Empires, Seas.” Yale University, April 2019.

with James Baldwin, Guy Burak, Ayelet Rosen, and Tara Stephan. “Conference in Honor of

Leslie Peirce.” New York University, May 2018.

with Francesca Trivellato. “Mediterranean Crossings.” Yale University, April 2015.

with Naomi Lamoreaux, Joseph G. Manning, Peter C. Perdue, and Paul Sabin. “Resources:

Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?” Yale University, February 2012.

with Thomas W. Laqueur. “Dogs, Humans, and Other Animals: A Conversation.” University of

California, Berkeley, June 2010.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association

Middle East Studies Association

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American Society for Environmental History

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

American Association for the History of Medicine

American Research Center in Egypt

American Institute for Maghrib Studies

History of Science Society

American Association of University Professors

Egyptian Association for Historical Studies

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, French, Spanish