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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

Alan Mikhail Yale University

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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.


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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.


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“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.


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“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]. InThaqāfat 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 Empire. H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, vol. 3, no. 8 (2013). https://www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-3-8.pdf. 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/


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


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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 Whitney Humanities Center Fellowship, 2016-2017 Yale University Leopold-Hidy Article Prize, American Society 2015 for Environmental History 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


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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 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


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Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship I 2003-2004 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures “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. “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. “Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” Environmental History Workshop. Brown University, September 2014. “Iceland, Egypt, Anthropocene.” Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science and Human Culture. Northwestern University, April 2014.


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“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. “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.


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“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. “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.


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“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.

“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 “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.


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“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. “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.


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“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. “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.


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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. “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.


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“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. “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 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 University, April 2015. 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.


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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. 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.


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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. 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.


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

Trivellato) 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


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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 Environmental History, 2013 to Present Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yale Advisory Board, 2013 to Present International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013-2015 Conference Organizing 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. Media Consultancy Trashopolis: Cairo. Pixcom Productions, Inc. Boston, February 2010. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa. KPFA Radio. Berkeley, March 2009. Qiṣṣat Wathā’iq [A Tale of Archives]. Tanwīr Television Productions. Alexandria, Egypt, June 2007. Now. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Cairo, Egypt, March 2007. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Middle East Studies Association American Society for Environmental History Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association


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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

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