Judith E. Tucker

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Judith E. Tucker is a professor of history at Georgetown University. She was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies from 2004 until 2009. She is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America

Education and career[edit]

Tucker grew up in Connecticut and was first introduced to Middle East studies through reading 1001 Nights.[1] She has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. from Harvard University.[2] She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981,[3] and started at Georgetown University in 1983 as an assistant professor.[1] From 2004 to 2009 Tucker was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.[4] Tucker was president of the Middle East Studies Association from 2017 until 2020.[5]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Tucker, Judith E; American Historical Association (1993). Gender and Islamic history. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. ISBN 978-0-87229-070-9. OCLC 458761283.
  • Tucker, Judith E (2010). In the house of the law gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Berkeley, Calif: California Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22474-2. OCLC 934970172.
  • Tucker, Judith E (2008). Women, family, and gender in Islamic law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-43777-9. OCLC 473590856.
  • Tucker, Judith E. (1985). Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511583506. ISBN 978-0-521-31420-6.
    • reviewed in Islamic Law and Society[6]

Honors and awards[edit]

Tucker was named a distinguished lecturer in 2012 by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.[7][8]

Personal life[edit]

Tucker and her husband, Sharif Elmusa, met in graduate school and they have two children.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Biographical Sketch". Middle East Studies Association.
  2. ^ "Judith Tucker: Georgetown University". Georgetown360.
  3. ^ Tucker, Judith E (1981). Women and the family in Egypt, 1800-1860: a study in changing roles and status (Thesis). OCLC 77001402.
  4. ^ Tucker, Judith E. (2010). "Pensée 1: From the Catbird Seat". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 42 (1): 3–5. doi:10.1017/S0020743809990481. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 40389578. S2CID 162737541.
  5. ^ "Previous Boards". Middle East Studies Association.
  6. ^ Shaham, Ron (1995). "Review of Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt". Islamic Law and Society. 2 (3): 358–361. doi:10.1163/1568519952599286. ISSN 0928-9380. JSTOR 3399478.
  7. ^ Inhorn, Marcia C. (2014). "Celebrating a Decade of Middle East Gender Studies: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 10 (3): 1–7. doi:10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.1. ISSN 1552-5864. JSTOR 10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.1. S2CID 162263260.
  8. ^ Tucker, Judith E. (2014). "She Would Rather Perish: Piracy and Gendered Violence in the Mediterranean". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 10 (3): 8–39. doi:10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.8. ISSN 1552-5864. JSTOR 10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.8. S2CID 144840618.


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