Women's Studies Affiliate Faculty
Julia Clancy-SmithPh.D., Associate Professor, Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies
Dr. Clancy-Smith is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Near Eastern Studies; she is an expert on the history of the modern Middle East and North Africa, particularly in regards to Islam, popular religion, women and gender issues, and colonialism/imperialism. She recently published a book with the University of California Press, Berkeley entitled Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protect, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia) (1994). This book has won three books awards; the first by the Society for French Colonial Studies, the second award was the Albert Hourani Book award for 1995 by the Middle East Studies Association, and the third from the Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society. Professor Clancy-Smith's edited volume, with Dr. Frances Gouda, Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in Dutch and French Colonialism (University of Virginia Press, 1998) was published in a simultaneous hardcover and paperback edition. It has sold out in its first printing and will go into a second printing immediately. Clancy-Smith is now working on two monographs: one on women, gender, and trans-Mediterranean settlement in 19th-century North Africa and the second on French colonial education for girls in early 20th-century North Africa.