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, Department and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, American Studies, Religious Studies, Medieval Studies, the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Center for European Studies, 1990- present •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, 2014-2021 • 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 Islamic and Spanish cultural precedents surviving in Mexico, Texas, 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 and Other Editions of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an Tantor Media, audiobook version, narrated by Jo Anna Perrin, 2018 Turkish edition, Geoturka Press, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017 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, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 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, Turkey, for Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr (1994), for “universal contribution to Islamic Studies,” January 2009. Award presented at formal ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey. 2 Books in Progress, Accepted for Publication ‘A’isha in Islamic and American History: A Global Life. Contract signed with Columbia University Press after two positive anonymous readers’ reports on the manuscript. In final revisions, forthcoming 2022. Books in Progress Judgment: A Jewish Jurist and a Muslim Citizen, Parallel Lives in the History of American Immigration. One chapter of three completed, “Two Men of Massachusetts.” Invited Articles in Progress “Muslim Migration and Immigration, 1790-1945,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America, edited by Amir Hussain, et al. (New York: Oxford University Press), 6,000-8,000 words, peer-reviewed, due May 2021. “Thomas Jefferson and Islam,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America, edited by Amir Hussain, et al. (New York: Oxford University Press), 10,000 words, peer-reviewed, draft due December 2020. Invited Articles Completed, Accepted for Publication, and Forthcoming ““Finding ‘Fatima’ among Enslaved Muslim Women in the Antebellum United States” in Janell Hobson, ed., The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories (New York: Routledge), 109-119, forthcoming March 2021. “Animals in Early Global Literatures: The Camel,” in Geraldine Heng, ed., Options for Teaching the Global Middle Ages (New York: The Modern Language Association), 8618 words, forthcoming 2021. Peer reviewed. Articles and Book Chapters “Thomas Jefferson,” in Christian-Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History, North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia (1800-1914), vol. 16 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2020), 43-49. “Benjamin Franklin, Islam, and the Abolition of Slavery,” in John Ghazvinian and Mitchell Fraas, eds., American and Muslim Worlds, 1500-1900 (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020), 7-19. “John Trenchard,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., Christian-Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History, Western Europe (1700-1800), vol. 13 (Leiden: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2019), 172-173. “Cato’s letters; or, Essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., Christian-Muslim Relations, A Bibliographical History, Western Europe (1700-1800), vol. 13 (Leiden: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2019), 174-178. 3 “Benjamin Franklin and Islam,” Pennsylvania Legacies, invited article for special volume on Islam in Pennsylvania, vol. 18, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 12-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5215/pennlega.18.1.0012 “Muslims, Toleration, and Civil Rights, from Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson,” in The Lively Experiment: Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present, ed. C. Beneke and C. Grenda, forward by Jon Butler (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), 85-100. Winner Choice’s “Outstanding Academic Titles” Top 25 Books for 2015. “Islam and the Atlantic,” in The Atlantic World, 1450-1850, ed. D’ Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and William O’Reilly (London: Routledge, 2015), 376-392. “‘Laws of the Profit’: Language, Religion, and Money in the Founding Fathers’ Diplomacy with a Muslim Kingdom,” for the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Analysis Paper No. 17 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, Saban Institute for Middle East Policy, August 2014), pp. 1-24. Peer reviewed. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/09/04-founding-fathers-diplomacy-muslim- kingdom-spellberg “Islam in America: Adventures in Neo-Orientalism,” Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 25-35, Summer 2009. “Could a Muslim Be President? An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Debate,” Eighteenth- Century Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 485-506, Summer 2006. Peer reviewed. “History Then, History Now: The Role of Medieval Islamic Religio-Political Sources in Shaping the Modern Debate on Gender,” in Amira Sonbol, ed., Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, pp. 3-14. Syracuse University Press, 2005. “Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp.148-164. 2004. “Islam on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Voltaire’s Mahomet Crosses the Atlantic,” in eds., Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter, and Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim, Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet, pp. 245-260. Columbia University Press, 2004. “Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, August, pp. 305-324. 1996. Peer reviewed. “Political Action and Public Example: Perceptions of ‘A’isha in the Battle of the Camel,”eds., N. Keddie and B. Baron, in Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender, pp. 45-58. Yale University Press, 1991. “The Politics of Praise: Depictions of Khadija, Fatima, and ‘A’isha in Ninth-Century Muslim Sources,” Literature East and West, Vol. 26, pp. 130-148. 1990. 4 “Marriages Made in Heaven and Illustrated on Earth: A Note on the Disjunction between Verbal and Visual Images in An Ottoman Manuscript,” Bulletin of the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, Vol. 16, pp. 47-54. 1989-90. “Nizam al-Mulk’s Manipulation of Tradition: ‘A’isha and the Role of Women in the Islamic Government,” The Muslim World, Vol. 51, No.2, pp. 111-117. 1988. “The Umayyad North: Numismatic Evidence for Frontier Administration.” The Museum Notes of the American Numismatic Society, Vol. 33, pp. 119-127. 1988. “As-Sayyida ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr: Final Report,” The American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, Vol. 33, pp. 7-11. 1986. Encyclopedia Entries “Hind bt. ‘Utba,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, Part 2018-5 (July 2018): 72-74, http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3 (Peer reviewed) “Barack Obama and Islamophobia,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Richard C. Martin ed., 2nd edition (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2016), 2: 809. Online edition: http://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/galeislam/nor