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Alan-Mikhail-CV-2017.Pdf Alan Mikhail 2017 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 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 Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Winner, 2014 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center, Yale University 1 Alan Mikhail 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, 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 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 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, Expected 2018. 2 Alan Mikhail Yale University Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters “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, Forthcoming 2017. 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, Forthcoming 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. “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. “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. 3 Alan Mikhail Yale University “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. 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, 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. 4 Alan Mikhail Yale University “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). “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 “Imperial Consequences of Things.” Interview with Selim Karlıtekin. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Posted on Borderlines, February 2015. Reposted on Jadaliyya, March 2015. “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
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