Judith E. Tucker

Tucker grew up in Connecticut and was first introduced to Middle East studies through reading 1001 Nights.{{cite web |title=Biographical Sketch |url=https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/biography-of-mesa-president-judith-e.-tucker |website=Middle East Studies Association}} She has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. from Harvard University.{{cite web|title=Judith Tucker: Georgetown University|url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RVxKAAW/judith-tucker|website=Georgetown360}} She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981,{{Cite thesis|title=Women and the family in Egypt, 1800-1860: a study in changing roles and status|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77001402|date=1981|language=English|first=Judith E|last=Tucker|oclc = 77001402}} and started at Georgetown University in 1983 as an assistant professor. From 2004 to 2009 Tucker was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.{{Cite journal|last=Tucker|first=Judith E.|date=2010|title=Pensée 1: From the Catbird Seat|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40389578|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|volume=42|issue=1|pages=3–5|doi=10.1017/S0020743809990481|jstor=40389578|s2cid=162737541|issn=0020-7438}} Tucker was president of the Middle East Studies Association from 2017 until 2020.{{cite web|title=Previous Boards|url=https://mesana.org/about/previous-boards|website=Middle East Studies Association}}

• {{Cite book|last1=Tucker|first1=Judith E|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/458761283|title=Gender and Islamic history|last2=American Historical Association|date=1993|publisher=American Historical Association|isbn=978-0-87229-070-9|location=Washington, D.C.|language=English|oclc=458761283}}
• {{Cite book|last=Tucker|first=Judith E|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/934970172|title=In the house of the law gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine|date=2010|publisher=California Univ. Press|isbn=978-0-520-22474-2|location=Berkeley, Calif|language=English|oclc=934970172}}
• {{Cite book|last=Tucker|first=Judith E|url=http://www.myilibrary.com/?id=190369|title=Women, family, and gender in Islamic law|date=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-511-43777-9|location=Cambridge, UK|language=English|oclc=473590856}}
• {{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Judith E. |title=Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt |date=1985 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511583506 |isbn=978-0-521-31420-6 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583506}}
• reviewed in Islamic Law and Society{{Cite journal|last=Shaham|first=Ron|date=1995|title=Review of Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3399478|journal=Islamic Law and Society|volume=2|issue=3|pages=358–361|doi=10.1163/1568519952599286|jstor=3399478|issn=0928-9380}}

Tucker was named a distinguished lecturer in 2012 by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.{{Cite journal|last=Inhorn|first=Marcia C.|date=2014|title=Celebrating a Decade of Middle East Gender Studies: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|journal=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|volume=10|issue=3|pages=1–7|doi=10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.1|jstor=10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.1|s2cid=162263260|issn=1552-5864|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Tucker|first=Judith E.|date=2014|title=She Would Rather Perish: Piracy and Gendered Violence in the Mediterranean|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.8|journal=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|volume=10|issue=3|pages=8–39|doi=10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.8|jstor=10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.8|s2cid=144840618|issn=1552-5864}}

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

{{reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tucker, Judith}}

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:Radcliffe College alumni

Category:Georgetown University faculty

Category:Living people

Category:Middle Eastern studies scholars

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

{{MEast-studies-bio-stub}}