Onur Inal

Onur İnal is a senior postdoctoral researcher and the peer investigator of the project “DANFront: An Environmental History of the Early-Modern Ottoman Military Frontier in the Middle and Lower Danube” at the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Arizona. His research interests center on environmental history, the history of technology, and human-animal encounters, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. He is the regional representative for Turkey at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the founder of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT). He is the author of Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He has co-edited Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (Brill, 2024), Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2019) and Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (Routledge, 2019). His scholarly work has appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of World History, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Ottoman Studies, Journal of Urban History, Environmental History, and Environment and History.