Alan Mikhail
Assistant Professor
Office: HGS 300-F
Phone: (203) 432-1353
Email: alan.mikhail@yale.edu
Links: www.alanmikhail.org
Alan Mikhail is a historian of the early modern Muslim world, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt whose research and teaching focus mostly on the nature of early modern imperial rule, peasant histories, environmental resource management, and science and medicine.
His first book, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (Cambridge University Press, 2011), won the 2009-11 Roger Owen Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association and the 2011 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication from Yale University and was named a book of the year by Ahram Online.
Professor Mikhail is currently writing a book about the changing relationships between humans and animals in Ottoman Egypt and also completing an edited volume on the environmental history of the Middle East, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, History Compass, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Akhbar al-Adab, Wijhat Nazar, and elsewhere. His article in the International Journal of Middle East Studies won the 2009-11 Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize from the Turkish Studies Association
Professor Mikhail received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation won the Malcolm H. Kerr Award from the Middle East Studies Association and the James H. Kettner Award from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University. His research has been supported by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Institute of Turkish Studies.
He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of the early modern Muslim world, the Ottoman Empire, and environmental history.
