- “Afterword: The Disorder of Things.” In Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, edited by Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Yıldırım. New York: Routledge, 2023.
- “1619, Islam, and Other Possible Histories.” American Historical Review 127 (2022): 1840-45.
- “What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire, Interspecies Rape, and Climate in the Little Ice Age.” Critical Inquiry 49 (2022): 55-76.
- “Foreword: Ottoman and Nature.” In Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History, edited by Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2019.
- with Vinita Damodaran, Georgina Endfield, Joelle Gergis, Takehiko Mikami, Sharon Nicolson, and Astrid Ogilvie. “The Climate Events of the 1780s.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, edited by Franz Mauelshagen, Christian Pfister, and Sam White. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- “Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” In Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean: New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society, edited by Nükhet Varlık. Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press, 2017.
- “Enlightenment Anthropocene.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 49 (2016): 211-31.
- “Climate and the Chronology of Iranian History.” Iranian Studies 49 (2016): 963-72.
- “The Nile and Food in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.” In Water and Food: From Hunter-Gatherers to Global Production in Africa, edited by Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard. Vol. 3 of Series III of A History of Water. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- “Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History.” Environmental History 20 (2015): 262-84.
- Recipient of the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for the best article in Environmental History.
- “A Dog-Eat-Dog Empire: Violence and Affection on the Streets of Ottoman Cairo.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (2015): 76-95.
- Translated into Japanese as “Kōto Ryōku no Teikoku: Osuman Ki Kairo no Gairo niokeru Bōryoku to Aijō.” Toshi Bunka Kenkyū 21 (2019): 96-114.
- “Engineering the Ottoman Empire: Irrigation and the Persistence of Early Modern Expertise.” In Ottoman Rural Societies and Economies, edited by Elias Kolovos. Rethymno: Crete University Press, 2015.
- “War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy.” In Asia Inside Out: Connected Places, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- “Oriental Democracy.” Global Environment 7 (2014): 381-404.
- “Labor and Environment in Egypt since 1500.” International Labor and Working-Class History 85 (2014): 10-32.
- “Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” American Historical Review 118 (2013): 317-48.
- Recipient of the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for the best article outside of Environmental History and the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award of the Agricultural History Society for the best article outside of Agricultural History.
- Translated into Turkish as “Hayvanlar, Enerji ve Osmanlı Mısırı’nda Emeğin Ekonomisi.” Toplumsal Tarih 310 (2019): 34-40.
- “Anatolian Timber and Egyptian Grain: Things that Made the Ottoman Empire.” In Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800, edited by Paula Findlen. New York: Routledge, 2013.
- “Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields.” In Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Alan Mikhail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- “Plague and Environment in Late Ottoman Egypt.” In Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Alan Mikhail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- with Christine M. Philliou. “The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (2012): 721-45.
- Translated into Turkish as “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Emperyal Dönüşüm.” Toplumsal Tarih 234 (2013): 26-40.
- “The Middle East in Global Environmental History.” In A Companion to Global Environmental History, edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- “Global Implications of the Middle Eastern Environment.” History Compass 9 (2011): 952-70.
- “al-Mawt bayna al-Mumārasa al-Ijtimā‘īyya wa al-Ḥajr al-Ṣiḥḥī li-Muḥammad ‘Alī” [Death between Social Practice and Muhammad ‘Ali’s Quarantine]. al-Rūznāma 9 (2011): 227-45.
- “From the Bottom Up: The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt.” In Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
- “An Irrigated Empire: The View from Ottoman Fayyum.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 569-90.
- Recipient of the Ömer Lütfi Barkan Best Article Prize of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
- “Animals as Property in Early Modern Ottoman Egypt.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (2010): 621-52.
- “The Nature of Plague in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (2008): 249-75.
- “Tārīkh Dirāsāt al-Tābi‘ wa Naẓariyyatayn ‘an al-Sulṭa” [Subaltern Studies and Two Theories of Power]. In Thaqāfat al-Nukhba wa Thaqāfat al-‘Āmma fī Miṣr fī al-‘Aṣr al-‘Uthmānī [Elite and Popular Culture in Egypt in the Ottoman Period], edited by Nāṣir Aḥmad Ibrāhīm. Cairo: Markaz al-Buḥūth wa al-Dirāsāt al-Ijtimā‘iyya, 2008.
- “The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House.” In Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Dana Sajdi. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
- Translated into Turkish as “Gönül Arzu Eder ki: Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Kentsel Mekân ve Osmanlı Kahvehaneleri.” In Osmanlı Laleleri, Osmanlı Kahvehaneleri: On Sekizinci Yüzyılda Hayat Tarzı ve Boş Vakit Eğlenceleri, edited by Dana Sajdi. Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2014.