Michael Christopher Low

Michael Christopher Low is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Low specializes in Ottoman, Middle Eastern, Indian Ocean, and Environmental History. He is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020) and co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020). In 2021, Imperial Mecca received the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award. Imperial Mecca was also shortlisted for the 2021 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. In 2020-2021, Low was a Senior Humanities Research Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi.