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

Scheele obtained her DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford. From 2006-2009, she 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.^[1] Scheele is Directrice d’études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.^[2] She holds an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.^[2]

In 2019 she gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at LSE in London.^[3]

In 2021-2022, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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).

(with Julien Brachet) The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

(ed. with James McDougall) Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012).

(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. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019)

• (with Julien Brachet) 'Remoteness is power: disconnection as a relation in northern Chad', Social Anthropology 27/2, (2019) 156-71.
• 'Ravens Reconsidered: Raiding And Theft Among Tubu-Speakers In Northern Chad', African Studies Review 61/3, (2018), 135-55 61/3 135-55 https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.34
• 'The Libyan connection: settlement, war, and other entanglements in northern Chad', Journal of African History 57/1 (2016), 1-20.
• (with Julien Brachet) 'A ‘despicable shambles’: labour, property and status in Faya-Largeau, northern Chad', Africa, 86/1, (2016), 122-41.
• (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 values of 'anarchy': moral autonomy among Tubu-speakers in northern Chad', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21/1 (2015), 32-48.
• 'A pilgrimage to Arawân: religious legitimacy, status and ownership in Timbuktu', American Ethnologist 40/1, (2013), 165-81.
• 'Traders, saints and irrigation: reflections on Saharan connectivity', Journal of African History 51/3, (2010), 281-300.
• 'Councils without customs, qadis without states: property and community in the Algerian Touat', Islamic Law and Society 17/3, (2010), 350-74.
• 'A taste for law: rule-making in Kabylia (Algeria)', Comparative Studies in Society and History 50/4, (2008), 895-919.
• 'Recycling baraka: knowledge, politics and religion in contemporary Algeria', Comparative Studies in Society and History 49/2, (2007), 304-28.
• 'Algerian Graveyard Stories', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12/4, (2006), 859-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00367.x
• 'Generating Martyrdom: forgetting the war in contemporary Algeria', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Special Issue 6/2, (2006), 180-94.

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