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Expertise
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Work
Work
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020)
Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014)
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010) Winner of the Middle East Studies Association Houshang Pourshariati Book Award, 2010
“Fortressed City: Kabul and the Face of the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan, circa 1817,” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, 42 (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2027)
“‘On the Wonders of Islands and the Strangeness of Seas’: The Indian Ocean in the Shegarfnama-ye Velayat,” Book of Wonders: A Travel Narrative from India to England, ed. Abbas Amanat (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
“Indo-Persian Travel Writing and the Ends of the Mughal World,” Past and Present 243, 1, 2019 (Oxford University Press)
“Merchants to the Golden City: The Persian Letter of King Chandrawizaya Raja and the Elephant and Ivory Trade in the Early Modern Indian Ocean, a View from 1728,” Iranian Studies 51, 6 (2018), 933-945.
“Through an Ocean of Sand: Pastoralism and the Equestrian Culture of the Eurasian Steppe,” Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Alan Mikhail (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
“Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel Writing, Nature, and the Reclamation of the Eurasian Steppe, circa 1850,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, 4, 2010 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
“The River's Edge: The Steppes of the Oxus and the Boundaries of the Near East and Central Asia, c. 1500-1800,” Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, eds. Abbas Amanat, Michael Bonine, and Michael Gasper (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011)
Co-edited with Pardis Mahdavi, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East: Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World 30, 3, 2010 (Durham: Duke University Press)
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Balzan Keddie Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
The Huntington Library, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Short Term Research Fellowship, 2009-2010