MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER LOW portrait
  • Assistant Professor, History
  • Director, Middle East Center, Middle East Studies Program
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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

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