Naomi Davidson
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 9160
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1276
Fax: 613-562-5995
E-mail: ndavidso@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
2007 – Ph.D., History, University of Chicago
2001 – M.A., History, University of Chicago
1998 – B.A., History, Bryn Mawr College
Fields of interest
- Islam in France
- Immigration
- The Mediterranean World
Ongoing Research
“Muslim and Jewish Space in the French Mediterranean, 1870-1962”
Selected publications
Muslims only as Muslims: Embodying Islam in 20th Century France (Cornell University Press, 2012)
« La Mosquée de Paris et ses satellites : L’architecture de l’islam français et l’islam en France, 1926-1945 ». Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (à paraître).
“‘Accessible to all Muslims and to the Parisian Public’: The Mosquée de Paris and French Islam in the Capital.” Thresholds 32 (Fall 2006): 12-17.