Dr Julian Weideman

Julian Weideman studies modern North Africa and the Middle East in global perspective, with a focus on universities, law, political economy, and Islamic thought. Before joining UCL in 2025, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto (2023-2025), the University of British Columbia (2022-2023), and Princeton University (2021-2022).  

Selected publications

Making a Mosque-University: The Political Economy of Reform in Colonial North Africa (forthcoming with Columbia Studies in Global and International History, Columbia University Press)

“‘Tunisian Islam,’ Women’s Rights, and the Limits of French Empire in 20th Century North Africa,” American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (March 2023): 64-88 

“Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytuna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 65 (2022): 859-89 

“Tahar Haddad after Bourguiba and Bin ʿAli: A Reformist between Secularists and Islamists,”  International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 1 (February 2016): 47-65 

Qualifications 

PhD, Princeton University, 2021

Contact information

Email: j.weideman@ucl.ac.uk

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