Alan Mikhail, the Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University, is a widely recognized historian of the early modern Muslim world. Across six books, over thirty scholarly articles, and dozens of essays and reviews, he has helped to establish the field of Middle East environmental history, positioned the Ottoman Empire at the center of global early modern history, and written creatively about the place of the archive in the making of past and present. He is currently working on the intertwined histories of Islam and colonial America.
