“Alan Mikhail: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History.” The MacMillan Report, 15:29. 9 May 2012. http://www.yale.edu/macmillanreport/ep90-mikhail-050912.html.
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. In one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, he examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. (Text from The MacMillan Report website).
Alan Mikhail is assistant professor in the Department of History at Yale University.