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Assistant Professor, History
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Director, Middle East Center, Middle East Studies Program
Professional Service
- American Society for Environmental History.
Role: Member.
2024 Conference Program Committee.
01/01/2024 - 04/07/2024
- Middle East Environmental History Book Series, Leiden University Press.
Role: Board Member.
Editorial Board.
10/25/2022 - present
- American Society for Environmental History.
Role: Member.
Hal Rothman and J. Donald Hughes Fellowships Committee, 2022-2025.
01/01/2022 - present
- Journal of Tourism History (Taylor & Francis).
Role: Board Member.
Editorial Board.
01/01/2020 - present
- Journal of Global History (Cambridge University Press).
Role: Board Member.
Editorial Board.
01/01/2019 - present
Internal Service
- Search Committee, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Arabic, Department of World Languages and Cultures, 2024.
Committee Member,
01/18/2024 - present.
College service.
- Search Committee for Assistant Professorship in Pre-Modern Middle East/North Africa and Islamic World History, 600-1400 CE, Department of History.
Committee Member,
08/15/2023 - 02/09/2024.
Department service.
- Middle East Center and Middle East Studies Program.
Director ,
07/01/2023 - present.
College service.
- Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History.
Member,
08/01/2022 - present.
Department service.
- International and Area Studies Faculty Advisory Committee.
Member,
08/01/2022 - present.
College service.
Honors & Awards
- Environmental Humanities Research Professorship, University of Utah, 2023-2025.
Environmental Humanities, University of Utah,
12/11/2022
- ESRR Environmental History Research Grant, 2022-2023 ($5,000).
Department of History, University of Utah,
12/02/2022
- Asia Center Research Travel Award, 2022-2023 ($2,500).
Asia Center, University of Utah,
09/22/2022
- Imperial Mecca, Albert Hourani Book Award.
Middle East Studies Association,
12/01/2021
- Imperial Mecca, Shortlisted, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.
British-Kuwait Friendship Society ,
11/29/2021
- Senior Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, 2020-2021.
New York University Abu Dhabi ,
08/01/2020
- Alice Hamilton Prize.
American Society for Environmental History,
04/02/2016
- CIEPO Article Prize.
Comité International des Études Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes,
11/14/2016
- Dean’s Emerging Faculty Leaders Award, 2020.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University,
06/30/2020
- Visiting Research Fellowship.
University of Glasgow Library, William Lind Foundation,
07/01/2019
- Senior Visiting Fellowship.
Koç University (Istanbul), Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations,
05/01/2016
In the Media
- Television interview, “Israel and Palestine have long, complicated history, University of Utah professor
says” Fox 13, Salt Lake City, 13 October 2023. 10/13/2023.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/israel-an...
- Quoted in Robbie Corey-Boulet, “Water-starved Saudi confronts desalination’s heavy toll,” France 24, 17 September 2023. Also syndicated to Al-‘Arab, Al-Monitor, Barron’s, Deutsche Welle (DW), The Times of India, Voice of America, and Yahoo News. 09/17/2023.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230917-wat...
- Fact checking consultation for James Wood (staff writer and book critic), “Outbreaks and Uprisings in Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague”,” The New Yorker, 24 October 2022. 10/24/2022.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/outb...
- Podcast interview, “Imperial Mecca,” Project on Middle East Political Science (POEMPS), Season 12, Episode 3, 29 September 2022. 09/29/2022.
https://pomeps.org/imperial-mecca-protests-in-iran...
- Review/Notable Books Notice, Arabic Translation of Imperial Mecca, Al-Majallat Al-‘Arabiyya (Saudi Arabia), 29 August 2022. 08/29/2022.
http://www.arabicmagazine.com/arabic/ArticleDetail...
- Review/Feature Article on Imperial Mecca, “تاريخ الحج من مناطق المحيط الهندي والتنافس على الحجاز بين الإمبراطوريات” [“The History of the Hajj from the Regions of the Indian Ocean and Competition over the Hijaz among the Empires”], Al-Jazeera (Arabic), 19 August 2021. 08/21/2022.
https://www.aljazeera.net/culture/2021/7/19/الجزير...
- الحج : ظاهرة دينية واقتصادية واجتماعية وسياسية, Al-Ahram (Egypt), 8 July 2022. 07/08/2022.
https://gate.ahram.org.eg/daily/News/204173/122/86...
- Review/Feature Article on Imperial Mecca, “إمبراطورية الحج: حروب البريطانيين والعثمانيين على بئر زمزم” [“Empire of the Hajj: The Wars of the British and the Ottomans over the Well of Zamzam”], Al-Quds Al-‘Arabi (London-based Arabic newspaper), 8 July 2022. Available from: https://www.alquds.co.uk/إمبراطورية-الحج-حروب-البريطانيين-وال/. 07/08/2022.
https://www.alquds.co.uk/إمبراطورية-الحج-حروب-البر...
- Quoted in Matt Maynard, “Iceberg towing: a bizarre ‘solution’ to the freshwater crisis,” Geographical, 12 June 2022. 06/12/2022.
https://geographical.co.uk/science-environment/ice...
- Review/Notable Books Notice, Arabic Translation of Imperial Mecca, Nida' al-Watan (Lebanon), 5 May 2022. 05/05/2022.
https://www.nidaalwatan.com/article/69515-لمايكل-ك...
- Review/Notable Books Notice, Arabic Translation of Imperial Mecca, Al-Dostour (Egypt), 1 April 2022. 04/01/2022.
https://www.dostor.org/4045649
- Imperial Mecca featured in “What Has Southasia Been Reading: 2021 Edition: Book recommendations from our contributors and Southasia’s prominent writers, translators, intellectuals and journalists,” Himāl Southasian, 13 January 2022. 01/13/2022.
https://www.himalmag.com/what-has-southasia-been-r...