Assistant Professor, History
Director, Middle East Center, Middle East Studies Program

m.chris.low@utah.edu

Publications

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Saltwater Kingdoms: Fossil-Fueled Water and Climate Change in Arabia, under contract to University of California Press, 2 January 2024. The final manuscript is due to the press no later than 31 December 2025., 01/02/2024 GLOBAL BAHRAIN KUWAIT OMAN QATAR SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES YEMEN
• ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: “Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Energy and Desalination from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf,” Environment and History 26, no. 2 (2020): 145-174., 05/01/2020 ISRAEL KUWAIT SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES
• WATER: “Ottoman Infrastructures of the Saudi Hydro-State: The Technopolitics of Pilgrimage and Potable Water in the Hijaz,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no. 4 (October 2015): 942-974., 10/05/2015

Presentations

• ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: “Copying California: The Water Prince and the Cold War Roots of Saudi Mega Projects,” Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, 3 November 2023., 11/03/2023 GLOBAL SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES

Professional Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: 2024 Conference Program Committee, American Society for Environmental History, 01/01/2024-04/07/2024 GLOBAL UNITED STATES

Media

• ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Quoted in Robbie Corey-Boulet, “Water-starved Saudi confronts desalination’s heavy toll,” France 24, 17 September 2023. Also syndicated to Al-‘Arab, Al-Monitor, Barron’s, Deutsche Welle (DW), The Times of India, Voice of America, and Yahoo News., 09/17/2023 EGYPT FRANCE GERMANY INDIA SAUDI ARABIA
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Quoted in Matt Maynard, “Iceberg towing: a bizarre ‘solution’ to the freshwater crisis,” Geographical, 12 June 2022., 06/12/2022 GLOBAL UNITED KINGDOM