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Denise A. Spellberg Curriculum Vitae DENISE A. SPELLBERG CURRICULUM VITAE 128 Inner Campus Drive, B7000 [email protected] Department of History, University of Texas office: GAR 3.208 Austin, Texas EDUCATION • Columbia University, Ph.D. in History, May 1989 • Columbia University, M. Phil in History, October 1984 • Columbia University, M.A. in History, May 1983 • Smith College, B.A. in History, May 1980, Phi Beta Kappa ACADEMIC POSITIONS •Professor, Department of History and Middle Eastern Studies, September 2014-present Fellow of John E. Green Regents Professorship in History, 2015-2016 •Associate Professor, Department of History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1996-2014 • Assistant Professor, Department of History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1990-1995 • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Gender and Women’s Studies, American Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Medieval Studies, and the Center for European Studies •Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in The Women’s Studies and World Religions Program, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, 1989-90 •Lecturer in European History, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, 1988-89 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS • Director, History Department Honors Program, 2014- • Associate Director, Medieval Studies Program, 2007-2008 • Director, Religious Studies Program, 1995-1996 • Designer and core faculty for Tracking Cultures, an intensive undergraduate study abroad program, dedicated to the analysis of Moroccan and Spanish cultural precedents surviving in Mexico and the American Southwest, 1995-2003 1 PUBLICATIONS Authored Books Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders. Alfred A. Knopf, October, 2013. 392 pages. Paperback, Vintage Press, July 2014. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr, Columbia University Press, 1994. Paperback 1996. Reviewed by Jane I. Smith in IJMES 28:2 (1996): 255- 56. Foreign Language Editions of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Indonesian edition, Pustaka Alvabet Press, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2015. Arabic edition, Jadawel Press, Beirut, Lebanon, 2015. BOOK AWARDS for Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders Grand Prize winner of the 2014 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, chosen by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty from among the 51 books published at UT Austin from all colleges and fields in the year 2013. “The Hamilton Awards are among the highest honors of literary achievement given for UT Austin authors.” October 15, 2014. Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards, Nonfiction Finalist 2013/2014, September 30, 2014. I-CAIR Faith in Freedom Award, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Cleveland, Ohio Chapter, “For promoting a better understanding of the history of religious freedom in America and for writing Muslims back into our nation’s founding narrative through the extraordinary and illuminating scholarly work, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders,” May 11, 2014. BOOK AWARD for Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr Dost (“Friend”) Book Prize awarded by the Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Istanbul, for Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past (1994), for “universal contribution to Islamic Studies,” January 2009 REVIEWS of/about Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Reviewed by The Daily Beast, September 29, 2013: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/29/thomas-jefferson-s-quran-how-islam-shaped- the-founders.html (an “enlightening book,” “compelling, formidably documented,” and “essential reading in these troubled times.” 2 Reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, November 8, 2013: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Thomas-Jefferson-s-Qur-an-by-Denise-Spellberg- 4968904.php (“a wonderful book,” and “a step toward inclusiveness in the ongoing construction of American history.”) Reviewed by The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, November 17, 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/books/review/thomas-jeffersons-quran-by-denise-a- spellberg.html?_r=0 (“fascinating,” “revelatory,” its “real achievement is in casting a coterie of founders – pre-eminently Jefferson, Madison, and Washington - in the unlikely role of radicals in their tolerance of Islam.” (This review became one of the top ten “Headliners” of 2013 on UT Web Site, and the only Liberal Arts book review in the NY Times, http://www.utexas.edu/know/2013/12/20/headliners-one-step-closer-to-invisible/ ) Midwest Book Review, December 2013: “an extraordinarily well written, researched, and seminal work that should be considered mandatory reading for anyone who believes America was founded to be a Christian nation to the denigration or exclusion of all other belief systems including Islam. Informed and informative, "Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders" is a strongly recommended addition to both community and academic library American History collections, and is a unique and invaluable contribution to Jeffersonian Studies supplemental reading lists.” “Briefly Noted” in The New Yorker, December 2, 2013. Subject of Huffington Post blog by Kelly James Clark, “Muslims: (WWTJD) What Would Thomas Jefferson Do?” November 27, 2013: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-james- clark/muslims-wwjd_b_4317477.html “offers a fascinating and timely corrective to post-9/11 anti-Muslim bigotry.” Featured article on the book in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “‘The Furthest Reaches of Tolerance’: A Scholar Explores the Founding Fathers’ Ambivalence toward Islam,” by Beth McMurtrie, October 7, 2013. “Our Founding Fathers Included Islam,” forward from my book posted at Salon.com on October 5, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/10/05/our_founding_fathers_included_islam/; re-posted by Salon on September 21, 2015. “The Founding Fathers Say Ben Carson Is Wrong about a Muslim President,” Andrew Burt op- ed in Los Angeles Times cites my book as evidence, September 24, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-burt-ben-carson-muslim-president-20150924- story.html 3 Radio, Print, and TV Interviews about “Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders,” 2013- 2017 * “The Tavis Smiley Show,” PBS Radio * “All Things Considered, Weekend Edition with Arun Rath,” NPR * “Not Even Past,” Podcast, History Department, University of Texas at Austin, now part of #1 ranked “Fifteen-Minute History” *“Michelangelo Signorile Show,” Sirius Radio * BBC World Service (radio interview), London, England *“American Muslim 360 Radio” *“MSNBC, TV interview with Craig Melville *Featured print interviews in al-Sharq al-Awsat (The Middle East) English, Arabic, and Urdu editions “Voice of the Cape Radio, with Shafiq Morton,” Cape Town, South Africa *“Newstalk with Sean Moncrief,” Dublin, Ireland * “Woodstock Roundtable,” with Doug Gunther,” Westchester, New York radio *“Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich,” Southern California Public Radio *“On Point,” WBUR, nationally syndicated NPR radio program, Boston, Massachusetts * “Radio HotPepper,” 1220AM, Dallas, Texas * “Airtalk with Larry Mantle,” Air Pacifica, KPFA, San Francisco, simulcast with SPFW, Washington, D.C., WBAI, New York *“Global Dynamics” with Inayet Wadee,” for Channel Islam International (Cii Radio), South Africa *Podcast interview on Tim Danahey Show, Denver, Colorado, http://www.Danahey.com *RadioIslam.com, WCEV 1450AM, Chicago, Illinois, April 2014 *C-Span, American History Channel, Interview about “Islam in America,” broadcast from Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 25, 2014 *“American Presidential Views of Islam, from Washington to Obama,” by Sayed Goubial, based on email interview (June 2014) about my book, published in Arabic in al-Watan, Cairo, Egypt November 15, 2014. http://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/597462 *“Islam and the Founders,” Kaleidoscope Islam podcast interview, Stanford University, November 2014, https://soundcloud.com/kaleidoscope-show/ * “On Reaction to GOP Presidential Candidate Ben Carson’s Statements about Muslims,” for “Idea Stream,” WPCN (NPR) radio 90.3, Cleveland, Ohio, October, 2015 *Interview based on my book by Elahe Izadi, “The Fascinating History of how Jefferson and other Founder Fathers defended Muslim rights,” The Washington Post, December 11, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/11/how-thomas- jefferson-and-other-founding-fathers-defended-muslim-rights/ *Interview on Thom Hartmann Show, Sirius XM Progress 127 radio, “How the Founding Fathers Fought for the Rights of Muslims,” December 14, 2015. *Interview with Ryan Lloyd, Web interview for KSAT TV, San Antonio, December 16, 2015; posted online *Interview for “A New Day for al-Islam in America,” WPAT NCY 930 AM, December 17, 2015. *Interview with Samar Jarrah, “True Talk,” WMNF radio, Tampa Bay, Florida, December 18, 2015. 4 *Interview with Afsin Yurdakul, for Turkish newspaper, Dunya (The World) section, in Gazete Haberturk, March 4, 2016, http://www.haberturk.com/dunya/haber/1204514-abd-anayasasini- yazarken-kurani-da-kaynak-aldilar *Interview about Thomas Jefferson with Amir Telibechirowich, Bosnian journalist, for Bosnian magazine, Stav (Attitude),August 8, 2016, http://stav.ba/historicarka-denise-spellberg-autorica- knjige-kuran-thomasa-jeffersona-islam-i-osnivaci/ *Interview with Maha Shahbah, about Islam and the Founders for Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram (Cairo, Egypt), November 4, 2016; http://www.ahram.org.eg/News/192074/83/559306/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7 %D8%B1/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8- %D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81-%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86-
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