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.
His book God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World won the Gold Medal in World History from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was named a book of the year by the Times Literary Supplement, History Today, Publishers Weekly, and Glamour.