Judith E. Tucker is a professor of history at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. She was the editor-in-chief of the '' International Journal of Middle East Studies'' from 2004 until 2009. She is a past president of the

Middle East Studies Association of North America Middle East Studies Association (often referred to as MESA) is a learned society, and according to its website, "a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encoura ...

Education and career

Tucker grew up in Connecticut and was first introduced to Middle East studies through reading 1001 Nights. She has a B.A. from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

and an M.A. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. She earned her Ph.D. from

in 1981, 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''. Tucker was president of the Middle East Studies Association from 2017 until 2020.

Selected publications

* * * * **reviewed in ''Islamic Law and Society''

Honors and awards

Tucker was named a distinguished lecturer in 2012 by the ''

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies ''Journal of Middle East Women's Studies'' is a triannual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which advances Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies. It is published by Duke University Press for the Association for Middle East Women' ...

''.

Personal life

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

References

Harvard University alumni Radcliffe College alumni Georgetown University faculty Living people Middle Eastern studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people) {{MEast-studies-bio-stub