Judith Scheele is a social anthropologist, who works in the Sahara. Scheele is based at the EHESS, France.

Career

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Scheele obtained her DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford. From 2006-2009, she was a fellow by examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2009 she was the All Souls College Evans Pritchard lecturer. In 2009 Scheele was elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2009.[1] Scheele is Directrice d’études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[2] She holds an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.[2]

In 2019 she gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at LSE in London.[3]

In 2021-2022, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Selected publications

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Monographs

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Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (Algeria) (Oxford: James Currey, 2009).

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

(with Julien Brachet) The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Edited volumes

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(ed. with James McDougall) Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012).

(ed. with Fernanda Pirie) Legalism: Community and Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

(ed. with Paul Dresch) Legalism: Rules and Categories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

(ed. with A. Shryock) The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology: Form, Duration, Difference. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019)

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  2. ^ a b Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (2018-07-26). "Judith Scheele". EHESS (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  3. ^ "Malinowski Memorial Lectures". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2019-10-31.