Alan Mikhail, PhD
Chace Family Professor of History
Biography
Biography
Professor 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 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.
Education & Training
- PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley, History (2008)
- MAUniversity of California, Berkeley, History (2003)
- BARice University, History and Chemistry (2001)
Activities
- The Animal in Ottoman EgyptChina; Egypt; France; United Kingdom; India; Iran; Italy; Syria; Turkey (2010-2014)Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have been locked into relationships with other animals.Humans ate, fought, prayed, and moved with animals.In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of the transformations of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. He uses the history of the empire's most important province, Egypt, to explain how human interactions wit
Departments & Organizations
- MacMillan Center
- Middle East Studies
- South Asian Studies