Julia Clancy Smith

Julia Clancy-Smith is a Regent’s Professor of History at the University of Arizona. In 2010, she was awarded the AHA’s William Gilbert Award for Best Article on Teaching History, and received in 2021 the WHOME (Women Historians of the Middle East) mentoring award for her work with graduate students.

Julia Clancy-Smith spent 2009 – 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton and received a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship for 2011 – 2012.

Publications

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800 – 1904), University of California Press, 1994.
[co-editor with Frances Gouda & contributor] Domesticating the Empire: Gender, Race, & Family Life in the Dutch and French Empires, University of Virginia Press, 1998.
[editor] North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean World from the Almoravids to the Algerian War, 2001.
[co-ed.] “Writing French Colonial Histories,” special issue of French Historical Studies, 2004.
Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity, American Historical Association/University of Illinois Press, 2006.
[co-ed. & contributor] Women in World History Project, document-based website, Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University (part of the World History Matters portal), 2006.
[co-editor & contributor] Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image, Los Angeles/Seattle: The Getty Research Institute/ University of Washington Press, 2009.
Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration c. 1800 – 1900, University of California Press, 2010.
[co-ed.] “Fathers and Daughters in Islam”, special issue of Journal of Persianate Studies, 2011.
A History of North Africa in the Modern Era, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
[co-ed.] A History of the Middle East and North Africa in Documents, Oxford University Press, 2011.