Judith Scheele


Judith Scheele is a social anthropologist, who works in the Sahara. Scheele is based at the EHESS in Marseilles.

Career

From 2006-2009, Scheele was a fellow by examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2009 she was the All Souls College Evans Pritchard lecturer. In 2009 Scheele was elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2009. Scheele is Directrice d’études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She holds an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
In 2019 she gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at LSE.

Selected publications

Monographs

Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia .
Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century.
The Value of Disorder Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara.

Edited volumes

Legalism: Community and Justice.
Legalism: Rules and Categories
The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology: Form, Duration, Difference.

Articles