Prof. Biran has authored or edited 12 books and volumes and authored dozens of articles. She has recently completed editing The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire along with Hodong Kim (2 vols. forthcoming 2022).
Selected Publications
1. Michal Biran. Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Presss, 1997. (Kindle edition 2013; Reprint: London: Routledge 2016).
2. Michal Biran. The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, 2008.
3. Michal Biran. Chinggis Khan. (“The Makers of the Muslim World”). Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2007 (Kindle edition 2012; Mongolian translation 2015; Turkish translation 2019).
4. Michal Biran, ed. Mobility and Transformation: Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62: 2-3 (2019).
5. Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. (Korean translation 2021).
Selected Awards
2021- Corresponding Member, The Austrian Academy of Sciences
2009, 2013, 2015 Excellent Teaching Award, HUJI
2014- Fellow, The Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities
2014 The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science, HUJI
2012-2017 The Anneliese Maier Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Asian Studies)
2007 The Landau Prize for Research and Sciences (History of East Asia and Its Cultures)
2006-9 - The Michael Bruno Prize, The Rothschild Foundation (Middle Eastern Studies) {frozen 2007-2011 for personal reasons}
2004-5 The Yoram Ben-Porat Presidential Prize for Excelling Young Researcher, HUJI.
Teaching
Courses taught in the last 5 years (B.A., M.A.)
BA Courses (last 5 years):
Introduction to the History and Culture of Late Imperial China (906-1911) (Lesson, EAS).
The Silk Roads: Asia and the Muslim World in the Pre-Modern Era (Seminar, ME)
Between China and the Mideast: Issues in Central Asian History (Seminar, ME and EAS).
The Mongols in the Islamic World (Seminar, ME).
Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern Muslim World (BA seminar, ME)
Honors Program in Chinese Studies (with Yuri Pines and Orna Naftali/ Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines) (EAS)
MA Courses (last 5 years):
Mobility and Transformation in Mongol Eurasia (ERC seminar 2015, 2017).
Silk Roads Encounters in North West China (Touring course in NW China, with Yuri Pines and Gideon Shelach, summer 2017, EAS)
Eurasian Nomads in World History (ME, with Michael Shenkar 2019-20)
Issues in Ilkhanid History: The Mongols in Greater Iran (ME, 2021).
