Department of History: Faculty

Faculty

Spellberg, Denise
Associate Professor

Office: GAR 0.138
Office Hours: On Leave Spring 2009
Phone: 512-475-7202
dams@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1989, Columbia University

Research interests:
Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.

Courses taught:
History of the Middle East from 570 to 1453, Gender in Islamic History, Islamic Spain and North Africa, Islam in Europe and America, Islamic Historiography.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Middle East

Thematic Field(s): Gender, Sexuality and Family; Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Race, Ethnicity and Nation; Religion and Culture

Recent Publications:
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of Aisha bint Abi Bakr (Columbia University Press, 1994); "Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood," International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996): 305-324; "Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25 (2004): 148-164; "Could a Muslim Be President? An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Debate," Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 485-506.

04 July 2009
Department of History in
The College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin
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Faculty

Spellberg, DeniseAssociate Professor

Spellberg, Denise
Associate Professor