Judith Scheele

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

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.

Monographs

Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (Algeria) (Oxford: James Currey, 2009).

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

The Value of Disorder Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara (2019).

Edited volumes

(ed. with Fernanda Pirie) Legalism: Community and Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

(ed. with Paul Dresch) Legalism: Rules and Categories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

(ed. with A. Shryock) The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology: Form, Duration, Difference.

Articles

• 'The values of 'anarchy': moral autonomy among Tubu-speakers in northern Chad', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21/1 (2015), 32-48.
• (with Julien Brachet) 'Fleeting glory in a wasteland: wealth, politics, and autonomy in northern Chad', Comparative Studies in Society and History 57/3 (2015), 723-52.
• 'The Libyan connection: settlement, war, and other entanglements in northern Chad', Journal of African History 57/1 (2016), 1-20.
• 'Algerian graveyard stories', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(4), 859-879. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00367.x
• 'Ravens Reconsidered: Raiding And Theft Among Tubu-Speakers In Northern Chad', African Studies Review 61/3 135-155 https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.34