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May 10, 2021
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Alan Mikhail
Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, global history, and histories of empire and the environment, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History, effective April 17.
He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is chair of the Department of History.
In his four books, Mikhail unearths narratives of environmental change and of imperial power previously untold about the Middle East. “Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History” (2011), which was awarded Yale’s Ranis and Heyman Prizes, as well as the Roger Owen Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association, is the first historical work to show how control of natural resources shaped the Ottoman Empire’s role in Egypt. In “The Animal in Ottoman Egypt” (2014), also a winner of the Ranis Prize, Mikhail revealed how changi ....

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