CURRICULUM VITAE
[September 1999]
Julia A. Clancy-Smith
EDUCATION
TEACHING POSITIONS
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial
Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1994). A paperback edition was published in
August of 1997.
* Winner of the 1995 Alf Heggoy Book Award, The French Colonial Historical Society
* Winner of the 1995 Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History
* Winner of Honorable Mention in the 1995 Albert Hourani Book Award by the
Middle East Studies Association
Rebel and Saint, was excerpted in Alice L. Conklin and Ian C. Fletcher's,
European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradictions Problems in European
Civilization. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999, pages 197-204.
Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, eds. Domesticating The Empire:
Languages of Gender, Race, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism,
1830-1962. Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Reprinted in 1999/2000.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
Book-length monograph: "Migrations: A History of Trans-Mediterranean
Settlement in North Africa, C. 1830-1900."
Book-length monograph: "The School on Rue du Pasha, Tunis: Educating the
Muslim Woman in Colonial North Africa, c. 1900-1940."
Pamphlet and volume chapter, "Women, Gender History, and Religion in Global
Perspective," American Historical Association/Temple University
Press.
Article: "Educating the Muslim Woman in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850-1918."
Feminist Studies (forthcoming).
Publication Project for the Journal of African History "The Maghrib in World
History: New Research on North Africa." Papers from the 1998 American Institute
for Maghrib Studies conference held in Tunis. Tunisia.
Article: "Migration, Markets, and Contraband in Mediterranean Tunisia: The
View From Below, circa 1850-1900." Journal of African History.
(forthcoming).
Article: "Europe and Its Social Marginals in 19th-Centure Mediterranean North Africa." The Shifting Boundaries of Marginality in the Modern Middle East, edited by Eugene Rogan.
European Science Foundation (forthcoming).
Article in French: "L'École re du pacha, Tunis: l'enseignement de la femme
arabe et 'la plus grande France,' c. 1900-1914." Clio [University of Toulouse,
France] (forthcoming).
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
"Research Facilities in Tunisia." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
18, 1 (July 1984): 31-34.
"Saints, Mahdis, and Arms: Religion and Resistance in Nineteenth Century
North Africa." In Islam, Politics, and Social Movements, edited by Edmund Burke
III and Ira Lapidus, 60-80. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1988.
"In the Eye of the Beholder: The North African Sufi Orders and the Colonial
Production of Knowledge, 1830-1900." Africana Journal 15 (1990):
220-57.
"Halide Edib Adivar." In Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century, 915-19.
Pasadena, Ca.: Salem Press, 1990.
"Naguib Mahfouz." In Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century, 1411-16. Pasadena, Ca.: Salem Press, 1990.
"Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: The Rahmaniya tariqa, 1715-1800." In
Muslim Travelers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination, edited
by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, 200-16. London: Routledge and
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
"The World at War: The Arab Role in the World Wars." In Arab World Almanac 2,
2 (Winter 1991): 5-9.
"The House of Zainab: Female Authority and Saintly Succession in Colonial
Algeria." In Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries In Sex and
Gender, edited by Nikki R. Keddie and Beth Baron, 254-74. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1992.
"The 'Passionate Nomad' Reconsidered: A European Woman." In Western Women and
Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret
Strobel, 61-78. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Reprint of "The 'Passionate Nomad' Reconsidered: A European
Woman in L'Algérie Française(Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877-1904)." In The Orientalism
Reader, edited by Edmund Burke III and David Prochaska. Berkeley: University of
California Press (forthcoming).
"The Middle East in World History." World History Bulletin 9, 2 (Fall-Winter
1992): 30-34.
Reprint of "The Middle East in World History," reprinted in
Ross E. Dunn, The World History Teacher: Essential Writings in a New Field.
Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1999.
"The Shaykh and His Daughter: Coping in Colonial Algeria." In Struggle and
Survival in the Modern Middle East, edited by Edmund Burke III, 145-163.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
"A Visit to a Tunisian Harem." In Journal of Maghrebi Studies 1-2, 1 (Spring
1993): 43-49.
"The Man With Two Tombs: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman, Founder of the Algerian
Rahmaniya, c. 1715-1798." In Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam, edited by
Grace Martin Smith and Carl W. Ernst, 147-169. Istanbul: Isis Press,
1994.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World: four articles:
"Kabylia," "Baraka," "Mawlay," & "Ahmad al-Alawi." Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
"The Colonial Gaze: Sex and Gender in the Discourses of French North Africa."
In Franco-Arab Encounters, edited by L. Carl Brown and Matthew Gordon, 201-228.
Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1996.
"La Femme Arabe: Women and Sexuality in France's North
African Empire." In Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic Society,
edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol, 52-63. New York: Syracuse University Press,
1996.
"The Maghrib and the Mediterranean World in the Nineteenth Century: Illicit
Exchanges, Migrants, and Social Marginals." The Maghrib in Question, edited by
Kenneth J. Perkins and Michel Le Gall, 222-249. Austin, Texas: University of
Texas Press, 1997.
Co-editor of special issues of Community College Humanities Review, "Studies
in Islamic History and Cultures, "Articles from the National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute, The University of Arizona, 1996. Philadelphia, Pa.:
Communities Colleges Humanities Association, August, 1997.
"A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in
Colonial North Africa." In A Social History of Women and the Family in the
Middle East, edited by Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker, 25-62. Boulder,
Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
"Introduction" (with Frances Gouda) to Domesticating The Empire: Languages of
Gender, Race, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism, 1830-1962, 1-20.
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1998.
"Islam, Gender, and Identities in the Making of French Algeria, 1830-1962."
In Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, eds., Domesticating the Empire:
Languages of Gender, Race, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism,
1830-1962, 154-174. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia,
1998.
"Islamic Anticolonial Revolts of the 19th Century," In Jack
Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, 260-263. Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998.
"Women and Islam in Africa," vol. 1 of Encyclopedia of Women and World
Religions, 500-503. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1998.
"Envisioning Knowledge: Educating the Muslim Woman in Colonial North Africa,
1900-1918." In Beth Baron and Rudi Matthee, eds., Iran and Beyond: Essays in
Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki Keddie. Los Angeles: Mazda Press,
2000.
"Gender in the City: the Medina of Tunis, 1850-1881." In Africa's Urban Past,
edited by David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone, 189-204. Oxford: Currey,
2000.
La Révolte de Bu Ziyan en Algérie, 1849." Special year 2000 issue of Revue du
Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée. Paris: CNRS, 2000. [translation and
revision of chapter four ofRebel and Saint].
"Albert Memmi and The Pillar of Salt." In African Literature
and Its Times, edited by Joyce Moss. Los Angeles, Ca.: Moss Publication Group,
2000.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Essai de Bibliographie Sélective et Annotée sur l' Islam Maghrébin
Contemporain, by Pessah Shinar. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 18, 2
(1984): 252-53.
Le Constantinois entre les Deux Guerres Mondiales: L'Evolution Economique et
Sociale de la Population Rurale, by Johan H. Meuleman. African Economic History
16 (1987): 159-61.
The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1792-1923, by M.E. Yapp. Middle East
Studies Association Bulletin 23, 1 (1989): 63-64.
The Cambridge Atlas of the Middle East and North Africa, by G. Blake, J.
Dewdney, and J. Mitchell. International Journal of African Historical Studies
22, 2 (1989): 344-45.
Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic
Nationalism, by William L. Cleveland. International Journal of Turkish Studies
4, 2 (Fall-Winter 1989): 268-69.
Fountain and Tomb (Hakayat Haretna), by Naguib Mahfouz. International Journal
of Middle East Studies 22, 3 (August 1990): 368-69.
Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern
Morocco, 1844-1886, by Daniel J. Schroeter. International Journal of African
Historical Studies 23, 1 (1990): 174-76.
Les Orders Mystiques dans l' Islam: Cheminements et situation actuelle,
edited by A. Popovic and G. Veinstein. International Journal of Middle East
Studies 22, 2 (May 1990): 241-43.
Le Grand Maghreb: Dès indépendences à L'an 2000, by Paul Balta. Middle East
Journal 45, 1 (1991): 138-39.
Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition, by R.S. O'Fahey.
International Journal of African Historical Studies 24, 3 (1991):
680-82.
Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo,
by Arlene E. Macleod. The Muslim World 82, 1-2 (1992): 153-154.
Modern Algeria: A History from 1830 to the Present, by Charles-Robert Ageron,
trans. M. Brett.The Journal of African History 34, 2 (1993): 358-59.
Tribe and State: Essays in Honour of David M. Hart, by E.G.H. Joffé and C.R.
Pennell, eds. The Journal of African History 34, 2 (1993): 331-32.
Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France, 1845-1846, by Susan Miller.Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 27, 2 (December 1993): 231-32.
Morocco in the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman, by Mohamed El Mansour. Middle East
Studies Association Bulletin, 27, 1 (July): 48-49.
Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement, by Julie M.
Peteet. The American Historical Review 98, 3 (June 1993): 919-920.
North Africa: nation, state, and region, edited by George Joffé. The Journal
of African History 35, 3 (1994): 521-22.
Religion and Power in Morocco, by Henry Munson, Jr. The Journal of African
History 35, 3 (1994): 530.
Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo, bo Boaz Shoshan. Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin29, 2 (December 1995): 244-245.
The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question, by Marnia Lazreg.
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 29, 2 (December 1995):
176-177.
The Women's Awakening in Egypt, by Beth Baron. Journal of the American
Research Center in Egypt 23 (1996): 218-220.
Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa, edited by I. William Zartman
and William M. Habeeb. Journal of Third World Studies 23, 1 (Spring 1996):
279-282.
Women in Islamic Biographical Collections From Ibn Sad to Who's Who, by Ruth
Roded.Journal of Third World Studies 23, 1 (Spring 1996): 376-379.
The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonization, and Resistance,
1830-1932 by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida. International Journal of Middle East Studies
28, 4 (November 1996): 606-607.
Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions by Simon Coleman and John
Elsner. American Historical Review, 102, 1 (February 1997): 86-87.
Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco by William A. Hoisington, Jr. The
Middle East Journal 51, 11 (Winter 1997): 135-136.
The Berbers by Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress. The Journal of African
History 38, 3 (1997): 498-99.
La Ville Européenne Outre Mer: Un Modèle Conquérant? By Catherine
Coquery-Vidovitch et Odile Goerg. The Journal of African History 39, 2 (1998):
330-31.
Dreams, Sufism & Sainthood: The Visionary Career of Muhammad al-Zawawi by
Jonathan G. Katz. Medieval Encounters 5, 2 (July 1999): 216-219.
Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule, by Zeynep
Çelik. The International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999):
128-130.
Historical Dictionary of Tunisia, 2nd edition, by Kenneth J.
Perkins. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, 2 (1998):
373-374.
La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications
politiques by Samir Saul. The Journal of Modern History (1999).
The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in colonial Algeria,
1937-1962 by Joëlle Bahloul. Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-faith
Studies [Amman, Jordan] 1, 1 (Spring 1999): 219-221.
The Maghreb by Anthony G. Pazzanita. The Journal of African History
(1999).
Endowments, Rulers and Community: Waqf al-Haramayn in Ottoman Algiers by
Miriam Hoexter.Journal of the American Oriental Society
(forthcoming).
Migration Internationale et Changements Sociaux dans le Maghreb edited by L.
Michalak and G. Sabagh. The Journal of North African Studies
(forthcoming).
Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race edited by Ruth Roach
Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri. The Journal of World History
(forthcoming).
OTHER CREATIVE PRODUCTS
Photograph of Morocco exhibited in the University of Arizona's Center for Middle East Studies' 1997-1998 exhibit "Children in the Middle East & North Africa."
Two Photographs of the Tunisian Sahara selected for exhibition in the University of Arizona's
Center for Middle East Studies' 1999-2000 exhibit "On the Table: Food from
the fields, stands, shops, restaurants & kitchens of the Middle
East."
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
TEACHING AWARDS
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/SERVICE
University of Washington Press, Seattle, consultant under contract for translation of Maxime Rodinson's La Fascination de l' Islam, 1986.
Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Inc., consultant under contract for revision or World History text, Peoples and Nations, 1986-87.
Middle East Studies Association of North America, Program Committee, 1985.
Executive Council of the World History Association, three-year elected term, 1989-1991.
AmidEast, Washington, D.C., consultant and author for Middle East Textbook Project, 1990- 1991.
Eductaional Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., author of GRE exams, Middle East History, 1990.
Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession/Conference Group in Women's History, Selection Committee for National Grants Selection Committee, 1990-1991.
American Institute of Maghrebi Studies, National Grants Selection Committee, 1992 & 1994.
Board of Directors of the American institute of Maghrebi Studies, 1991-1994; 1994-1999.
American Council of Learned Societies, grant-in-Aid program, pre-screener, 1991-1994.
Princeton University, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Summer Institute on World History, 1992.
AmidEast, Washington, D.C., Fulbright pre-departure orientation program, 1992.
Middle East Studies Association of North America, Program Committee, 1993.
Consultant on Divorce in Muslim Family Law for Law Firm of Vanderkloot and Associates, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (did a deposition in Ann Arbor, Mich.).
Northern Virginia Community Colleges, Co-Grant Writer and Faculty Advisor for NEH-funded Islam and World History Institute, 1993-94.
NEH, Young Scholars Program, Faculty Advisor, 1994.
Muslim World [Hartford Seminary], editorial board, 1994-98.
Social Science Research Council, grant screener and selection committee, 1994-1995.
Outside Evaluator for: Tenure and Promotion Committees, History Departments, Georgetown University, Denison University, University of Florida, and the University of Rochester.
Manuscript Evaluator for: Comparative Studies in Society and History; Middle East Journal; International Journal of African Historical Studies; Journal of African History; The Oral History Review; Gender and History; International Journal of Middle East Studies. The American Historical Review.
Book Mss. Evaluator for: University of California Press, Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1993, 1994,1995,1996, 1997, 1999); Indiana University Press; Stanford University Press (1996); Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press; Cambridge University Press, UK, 1998, 1999; Houghton Mifflin.
NEH, Summer Institute for College Teachers, University of California, Santa Cruz, in-residence co-director, institute faculty and lecturer, 1995 [six weeks].
Journal of African History, Advisory Board, 1995-1999; invited for a 2nd term, 1999-2001.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, editorial board, 1995-1999.
Cambridge University Press, editorial board, 1999.
American Historical Association, 1995-1996, Program Committee, annual meeting of the Association, 1997, New York City.
Social Science Research Council, Standing Committee on International Predissertation Fellowship Program, 1996-1998.
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel to Conference Grants, 1996 Selection Committee.
Middle East Studies Association, 1997 Humanities Dissertation Awards Committee and Chair of 1998 Dissertation Awards Committee.
American Historical Association, Publications Advisory Committee, 1997-.
Society for French Historical Studies, program committee year 2000 meeting.
Consultant NEH/Ford Foundation/Independent Broadcasting Associates, "Living Islam Project."
National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant Evaluator, 1998.
Consultant, Primary Source Media, New Haven, Ct.
Consultant, Moss Publications, Los Angeles, World Authors Series, 1999-.
Consultant, Moss Publications, Los Angeles, World Author Series, editorial board, 1999-.
Indiana University Press, Restoring Women to History; 2nd edition
Women in the Middle East & North Africa (1999) Nashat & Tucker, eds.
Provided material for North Africa.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITIES OF VIRGINIA AND ARIZONA:
University of Virginia, Symposium, "Islam in the Modern World," Organizer & Moderator, 1987.
University of Virginia, Middle East Studies Program, Steering Committee, 1987-1990.
Faculty Advisor, Middle East Studies Program, 1987-1994.
Faculty Undergraduate Advisor, History Department, 1987-1994.
University of Virginia, Summer Arabic Program, Selection Committee, 1988.
History Department, Graduate Student Foreign Language (French) Examinations, 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Selection Committee, History
Department, University of Virginia, 1989.
University of Virginia, Dacor-Bacon House Fellowship Selection Committee, 1989.
University of Virginia, Symposium, "Iran Ten Years after the Revolution," 1989.
History Department, Member of Nomination Committee, Department Chairperson, 1989-1990.
University of Virginia, Search Committee for Second Arabic Position, 1990-1991.
University of Virginia, Division of Continuing Education, Faculty Advisory Committee on Global Change Program, 1991-94.
Co-Chair of Local Arrangements Committee, Southeast Regional Society of African Studies, Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, 1990.
University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Center, Division of Continuing Education, Faculty Advisor for Curriculum and Lecture Series, 1990-1993.
University of Virginia, Division of Continuing Education, "Global Change: the Middle East," Organized and Directed a semester-long seminar for Pre-College Teachers, 1990.
University of Virginia, Middle East studies Program, FLAS Committee, 1990.
Women's Studies Student Essay Contest, 1990, 1992 (my students won).
University of Virginia, Jefferson Scholars Program, Participant and Seminar Leader, 1991.
University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Center, Participant, Lecturer, and Grader for 2-Day Graduate Credit Seminar on the Middle East, Quantico Marine Corps base, 1991.
University of Virginia, Global Change Program, Women in North Africa, 1991, Lecturer.
University of Virginia, Division of Continuing Education, Fairfax County Schools, World History Semester-long seminar for Teachers, Project co-Director, 1991-1992.
University of Virginia, Common Reading Experience, 1991.
Women's
Studies Lecture Series, 1991, Lecturer.
Chair of Panel and Speaker, "Integrating World History into the Secondary School Curriculum," in the First Annual Global Change Education Conference, "Rethinking World History:
Globalizing the Curriculum," Division of Continuing Education, Washington, D.C., 1991.
University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Center, Continuing Education, Symposium for Loudoun County Teachers, 1992.
University of Virginia, Faculty Associate for General College Student Advising, 1992-1993.
Center for the Liberal Arts, American Perspectives Lecture Series for Teachers, 1992.
History Department, International Programs Committee, 1992.
University of Virginia, Judge, National History Day, 1993.
History Department, Faculty Representative, Admissions Day, 1993.
Public Occasions Subcommittee of the Commencement and Convocations, 1993 and 1994.
History Department, Phi Alpha Theta faculty advisor, 1994.
History Department, Promotion and Tenure ad hoc Committee, 1993.
Women's Studies Program, Assessment Committee, 1993.
Jefferson Scholars Program, National Selection Committee, 1993.
Middle East Studies Program Lecture Series, 1994.
History Department, Distinguished Majors Program Seminar, 1993.
McIntire School of Commerce, Faculty for Internationalizing the Curriculum Program, 1993.
Center for the Liberal Arts, Faculty Advisor, NEH Global History Project for Teachers, 1993-94.
University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute, Fellowships Committee, 1993-1994.
Selection Committee, National Security Education Program, 1994.
Teaching Resource Center Lecture Series, "Creating an Active Classroom Environment," 1994.
History Department, "Tales from the Archives: Survival Strategies in Foreign
Archives," 1994.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA:
Governing Board, Center for Middle East Studies, 1994-95; 1996-97.
Women's Studies Program, Curriculum Committee, M.A. program, 1994-95.
Center for Middle East Studies, FLAS Fellowships Committee, 1995-1996.
Women's Studies Executive Committee, 1995-1997.
Near Eastern Studies, Curriculum Committee, 1995-1996.
Near Eastern Studies, Grievance Committee, 1995-1996.
Office of International Programs, African Studies Working Group, 1996.
NES & Center for Middle East Studies, OIP with the University of California, Berkeley, Lecture Tour for Prof. Largueche, University of Tunis, 1995.
Women's Studies Program, 1996 Peer Review Committee.
Curriculum Development: developed 6 new undergraduate/graduate courses, 1995-1999.
Second Year Review Committee - School of Library Sciences, 1996.
Program (Graduate) in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, guest instructor, spring 1997.
Middle East Center, Accredited Teacher Workshop on Women and the Middle East/Islam, Tucson Unified School District, spring 1997.
Guest lecturer for pre-departure briefing of students for international study tour, 1996, 1997.
SBS Advisory Board, History Salons, Lecture and Slide presentation, "Harem and Odalisque: European Perceptions of Women in the Middle East & Islam," May 1997.
Women's Studies, Peer Review Committee, 1997.
Chair, Search Committee for Position in Islamics, NES, 1996-1997.
History Department, Chair of World/Comparative History Field Committee, 1997-1998.
History Department, Curriculum Committee, 1997-1998.
History Department, Department secretary, 1997-1998.
Women's Studies Department, Annual Review Committee, 1997.
History Department, Teaching Evaluations Committee, 1997-1998.
History Department and Borders Books Salon Series: "Coffee and Coffeehouses," March 1998.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1998-1999 lecture series, "Women and Sufism," Oct. 1998.
History Department, Graduate Advisory Committee, 1998-1999.
History Department, Dean's Committee to select new department head, 1998.
History Department, Faculty Advisor for Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society.
History Department, 4th year review committee, 1998.
Center for middle East Studies, annual American Institute of Maghrebi Studies, graduate student conference, 1999.
History Department, organizer and convener of the Phi Alpha Theta, Regional Conference, 1999.
History Department, ad hoc, Faculty Retreat Committee, 1999.
Graduate College, Summer Research Institute for undergraduates,
1999.
SERVICE TO CAMPUS/STUDENT GROUPS AND THE COMMUNITY
University of Virginia, Faculty Advisor for student delegation, Model League of Arab States, American University, Washington, D.C., 1989.
Christ Church, Scottsville, Virginia, Organizer & Lecturer, Lecture Series on Islam, 1989.
University of Virginia, Student Chapter, Amnesty International, Lecture, 1989.
Tandem Middle School, Charlottesville, Teach-In on the Gulf War, 1990.
University of Virginia, Student Teach-In on the Gulf War, 1991.
Middle East Studies Students' Lecture Series, 1991, 1994.
League of Women Voters, Charlottesville, Lecture Series on Islam, 1991.
University of Virginia, local Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Faculty Advisor, 1993-1994.
Greer Elementary School, Charlottesville, volunteer teacher, 1988-1994.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Charlottesville, volunteer teacher, 1993-1994.
University of Virginia, Maison Française, Lecture Series, 1994.
Capitola Bookstore, Santa Cruz, Ca., public discussion about World History, July 1995.
University of Arizona, WKUAT Radio Interview on Women and Islam, 1995.
Radio Interview, KXCI "Talking Tucson," Islam and World History, 1996.
Pro bono outside legal expert on asylum case in Austin, Texas.
Faculty organizer of the regional Phi Alpha Theta conference, University of
Arizona, March 1999.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
"Women and Revolution in Modern Algeria," Middle Atlantic History Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., 1978.
"Religion, Revolt, and Accommodation: the Sufi Brotherhoods in 19th-Century Algeria," Middle East Studies Association, annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 1980.
Commentator, Conference on Islamic Political Movements, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, U. of California, Berkeley, 1981.
"Rebellion and the Apocalypse in Colonial Algeria," American Historical Association, annual meeting, Chicago, 1984.
"A View from the Periphery: Relations between the Jarid and the Beylik in 19th-Century Tunisia," Middle East Studies Association, annual meeting, New Orleans, 1985.
"Contraband and Black markets: Centralizing States and Local Economies in 19th-Century Egypt," and Tunisia," Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Hawaii, 1986.
Commentator, "The Hemisphere Dimensions of Islamic History," Middle East Studies Association, annual meeting, Boston, 1986.
"Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: Sidi Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Rahman al-Azhair," Conference on Saints and Sainthood in Islam, U.C., Berkeley & NEH, 1987.
"Using African Literature to Teach History and the Social Sciences," Southeast Regional Society of African Studies, University of Virginia, 1988.
"Rumors of Revolt: Abu Ziyan & the 1849 Zaatsha Uprising," MESA, annual meeting, Los Angeles, 1988.
"The Shaykh and His Daughter: Coping in Colonial Algeria," Southeast Regional Middle East & Islamic Studies Seminar, North Carolina, 1989.
"In the House of Zaynab: Women and Power in North Africa," annual Women's Week Symposium, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989.
"Women, Sufism, and Colonialism in North Africa," Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis, 1989.
"Struggle and Survival in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1904," Department of History, U.C., San Diego, 1990.
"From Jerusalem to the Black Sea: the Crimean War, 1853-1856," Cunard Lines, Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Lecture Series, Seagoddess II, Odessa, 1990.
"Some Women (and Men) of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey," Cunard Lines, Yalta, 1990.
Chair/Commentator, "Sufis: Social Connections & Mental Worlds," MESA, San Antonio, 1990.
"The Rebellious Daughter: Women, Popular Piety, and Sufism in 19th-Century North Africa," Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., 1990.
"A Pre-History of Expansion: The Islamic Commonwealth, Andalusia to the Indian Ocean, 1000- 1500," Princeton University, World History Summer Institute, 1992.
"From the Balkans to Africa: Ottoman Expansion in the Age of Explorations, 1450-1600,"
Princeton University, World History Summer Institute, 1992.
"The 'Passionate Nomad': Isabelle Eberhardt's Algeria," Southeast Regional Middle East Islamic Studies Seminar, fall meeting, North Carolina, 1992.
"Populist Culture and Modernity in Colonial Algeria," George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1993.
"Contraband and the World of Social Marginals in the 19th-Century Mediterranean," Center for Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 1993.
"Rebellious Women and the Colonial State in Algeria," Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1993.
"Rebellious Women, Saintly Females," Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, 1993.
Commentator, "Colonizing Identities: Gender and the Construction of Imperial Ideology," Berkshire Conference, Vassar College, 1993.
"Illicit Encounters: Contraband, Migrants, and the World of Social Marginals in the 9th-Century Mediterranean," Virginia Foundation for the humanities, Charlottesville, 1993.
"The Middle East and North Africa: Prospects for U.S. Business and Commerce in the Region," McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, 1993.
"The Colonial Gaze: Sex and Gender in the Discourses of French North Africa," University of Michigan, Women's Studies & Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1994.
Chair, "Family Policy and French Imperialism: Intersections of Gender, Culture, and Law," annual meeting, the Society of French Historical Studies, Delaware, 1994.
"Illicit Exchanges: Contraband and the World of Social Marginals in the 19th-Century Mediterranean," University of Arizona, 1994.
Northern Virginia Community College, NEH Summer Institute for College Professors and Administrators, "Islam and the Middle East," one week of lectures, 1994.
Le Regard Coloniale: la Femme Arabe dans le Discours Français," (in French), Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis, Tunisia, 1994.
"La Femme Arabe: Women & Imperialism in French North Africa," History Department, University of Arizona, 1994.
"Women of Modest Means: Migration, Identity, and Contraband in 19th-Century Mediterranean World," Center ro Middle East Studies, University of Arizona, 1995.
"Tunisia and the 19th-Century Mediterranean World: Migration, Women, and Identity," Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
"Migrations," Keynote Address, 10th annual Middle East History & Theory Conference, Center for Middle East Studies, The University of Chicago, 1995.
"Tunisia: the Ellis Island of the 19th-Century Mediterranean World." The 18th Congress of the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal Canada, 1995.
"Women, Migration, and Identity in 19th-Century North Africa," The University of Virginia, 1995.
"The World in 1500," NEH Summer Institute in World History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995.
"Andalusia and the New World," NEH Summer Institute in World History, UCSC, 1995.
"Women of Modest Means: Migration, Identity, and Contraband in the 19th-Century Mediterranean World." The 18th Congress of the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal Canada, 1995.
"Displacements," Keynote Address, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, 1995.
"Migration, Markets, and the Mediterranean World in 19th-Century North Africa: The View From Below," Harvard University, Conference on Informal Economies, February 1996.
"Gender in the City, Tunis c. 1880," M.I.T., Humanities Division, May 1996.
"The Maghrib, Islam and World History, NEH Summer Institute in Islam and Culture, University of Arizona, June 1996.
"Displacements: Migration and Gender in the Medina of Tunis, 1850-1881." University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, International Congress on Africa's Urban Past, June 1996.
NEH/Community College Humanities Association, chair of panel, "Teaching Islamic History and the Humanities, San Francisco, November 1996.
Commentator and Chair of Panel, "History Stories: The New Narrative History," Middle East Studies Association, 1996.
Commentator, "Domestic Goddesses or Unholy Warriors: Blurring Boundaries Between Public & Private in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt," American Historical Association, NYC, 1997.
Chair, Panel on Women in Israeli Culture, Western Jewish Studies Association annual conference, The University of Arizona, 1997.
Plenary Address: "Displacements: Women, Migration, and Contested Identities in the 19th- Century Mediterranean World," World History Association, International Conference, The University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, June 1997.
Commentator, panel, "The Mediterranean World," and Chair of panel, "Pilgrims and Pilgrimage," World History Association, Pamplona, Spain, June 1997.
Commentator, "Domesticating the Empire: Languages of Gender, Race, and Family Life in French & Dutch Colonialism, "Social Science History Association, annual meeting Washington, D.C., 1997.
"Women in North African History: The Past Decade," Near Eastern Studies/Middle East Center mini-conference on women & gender in Middle East Studies, University of Arizona, 1997.
"Muslim Women and Education in Colonial North Africa," University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Oriental Studies, December 1997.
University of Aarhus and University of Cpenhagen, Denmark, Department of Anthropology, invited international conference "Worlds and Visions: Perspectives on the Middle East Today." Three-day workshop participant and lecture: "Visions of Knowledge: Muslim Women and Education in Colonial North Africa, 1880-1930," December 1997.
"Envisioning Knowledge: Women and Education in Colonial North Africa," Society for French Historical Studies, Ottawa, Canada, March 1998.
Commentator, annual Mica Ertegün conference on Gender and the Practice of Law in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University, April 1998.
Organizer, director, and commentator: American Institute of Maghrebi Studies international conference on "The Maghrib in World History," May-June 1998, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia.
"Trans-Mediterranean Settlement in 19th-Century North Africa," plenary session of the American Historical Association, annual meeting, Washington, D.C., January 1999.
Commentator, panel on "France's North African Empire: New Scholarly Directions in Colony- Metropole Relations, c. 1900-1962," Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1999.
"Trans-Mediterranean Migrations and Hidden Regions of Knowledge," New York University, Middle East Center Research Workshop, March 1999.
Commentator, panel "Industrialization and De-Industrialization in European Environmental History," annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, University of Arizona, April 1999.
"The School on Rue du Pasha, Tunis." St. Antony's College, Oxford University, 1999.
"The School on Rue du Pasha: Educating Muslim Girls in Colonial Tunisia," UCLA, 1999.
"Migrations," Udall Center for Public Policy, University of Arizona,
1999.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
FOREIGN LANGUAGES, TRAVEL, AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Languages: Arabic, Turkish, French, Italian
Travel: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, all of Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe, Mexico, Canada, etc.
Foreign Research in Archives: Tunisia, Morocco, Great Britain, Malta, and
France
COURSES TAUGHT
I. Undergraduate Courses:
Muslim Societies, parts I and II
History of the Middle East and North Africa, 570-1500
History of the Middle East and North Africa, 1500-present
Seminar: The Social History of the Modern Middle East & North African through its Literature
Seminar: Colonialism and Revolution in Modern North Africa, c. 1800-present
Middle Eastern Humanities
400/500 Seminar: Women & the Literature of Identity in the Modern Middle East & North Africa
400/500 Colloquium: Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East & North Africa
400/500 Colloquium: Women, Gender, and Imperialism in the British, French, and Dutch
Empires, c. 1800-1962.
World History, 1500-present
II. Graduate Courses:
Colloquium: Middle East History, 570 AD-1500
Colloquium: Middle East History 1500-present
Seminar: Modern Middle East History, c. 1800-present
Seminar: Historiography of North Africa, 1800-1962
Colloquium: The Modern Mediterranean World in Comparative Historical Perspective
Seminar: France's North African Empire