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Henry Misa

Henry Misa

Henry Misa in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Contact Information

Graduate Student

Email
Email Henry Misa misa.2@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Islamic History
  • Environmental History
  • Central Asian History

Henry Misa (pictured next to the Samanid Mausoleum in Bukhara) is a doctoral candidate in Central Asian history. His research focuses on the environmental history of Central Asia during the ninth through eleventh centuries, combining different types of historical evidence from primary sources, archaeology, paleoclimatology, and archaeobotany.

Recent Media Coverage:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-may-have-found-the-lost-city-of-the-silk-road-180987637/ 

Recent Publication:

“Paleoclimatology and the Historiography of Late Antique Central Asia: Methodological Reflections on Interdisciplinary History," Studies in Late Antiquity 9, no. 4 (2025): 692-706. https://online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-abstract/9/4/692/214100/Paleoclimatology-and-the-Historiography-of-Late?redirectedFrom=fulltext 

Courses taught:

History 2700: Global Environmental History 

History 1681: World History until 1500 

Academia:

https://osu1.academia.edu/HenryMisa

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