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Anthony Quickel is a postdoctoral scholar in Department III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the MPIWG. His current research project seeks to explore the ways inanimate natural materials, specifically metals and minerals, were understood and utilized in medieval Egypt, particularly during the Mamluk Sultanate as part of the “Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle” Working Group.
Anthony completed his PhD at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, with a dissertation entitled “Egypt’s Quiet Sixteenth Century: Transformation and the Production of Knowledge Across the Mamluk-Ottoman Transition,” which is under preparation as a monograph. Between 2019–2022, he was the project coordinator of the DFG-ANR-funded EGYLandscape Project, a joint German-French cooperation, which investigated Egypt’s past landscapes and environment during the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. He was also a researcher on the DFG-ANR-funded DYNTRAN (Dynamics of Transmission) Project from 2015–2017. Anthony has been involved with several scientific committees, including the Ta’ziz Scientific Cooperation and the TransOttomanica Project. He is the author of several articles relating to Egypt’s pre-modern environmental history, as well as the co-editor of a forthcoming volume about nature during the Mamluk Sultanate. During multiple academic terms from 2016–2021, Anthony was an adjunct instructor of Middle East History at the American University in Cairo, from which he also obtained his master’s degree.
