M. Fatih Çalışır is a historian of early modern Ottoman and environmental history. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University (2016) and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Istanbul University. He has held appointments at Ibn Haldun and Kırklareli Universities and was a TÜBİTAK 2219 Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2024–25). Çalışır has published widely as an editor and translator and is the founder of the Bilkent History Society and the Environmental History Society of Turkiye