Publications

 

Books


  1. • Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).


  2. • American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).


  3. • American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters, eds. Mehmet Ali Doğan and Heather J. Sharkey (Salt Lake City:University of Utah Press, 2011).


  4. • Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missions in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, ed. Heather J. Sharkey (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013).


  5. • A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).


  6. • The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom, eds. Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green (Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).




Translations


  1. • al-'Aysh m'a al-isti'mar: al-Wataniyya wa al-thaqafa fi al-Sudan al-injilizi al-misri, trans. Badreldin Ali (Khartoum: Dar Barcode, 2023). (Translation into Arabic of Heather J. Sharkey, Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan).


Edited Journal Issues


  1. • Bilingual special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines on the theme of “Rethinking Sudan Studies,” co-edited with Elena Vezzadini (CNRS, Institut des mondes africaines [IMAF], Paris) and Iris Seri-Hersch (Université d’Aix-Marseille), 49:1 (2015).


  2. • Special issue No. 1 of the Journal of Presbyterian History co-edited with Connie Shemo (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Bonnie Sue Lewis (University of Dubuque Theological Seminary), on “The Dynamics of Indigenization: Presbyterian and Reformed Histories on the World Stage” (in honor of Lamin Sanneh), 99:1 (Spring 2021).


  3. • Special issue No. 2 of the Journal of Presbyterian History co-edited with Connie Shemo (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Bonnie Sue Lewis (University of Dubuque Theological Seminary), on “The Dynamics of Indigenization: Connecting the Global and the American” (in honor of Lamin Sanneh), 99:2 (Fall/Winter 2021).



Selected Articles


  1. • “The Photograph of ‘Abd al-Rahman Musa in Paris (1867): A Sudanese Veteran of the Egyptian Army in Mexico,” in Égypte Soudan Monde Arabe, 24 (2023) pp. 171-91.


  2. • “Foreword,” in Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: Connected Histories, Bernard Heyberger, ed. Aurélien Girard, Cesare Santus, Vassa Kontouma, and Karène Sanchez Summerer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), pp. 1-9.


  3. • “The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to Mexico (1863-1867): A Global History from the Nile Valley to North America,” in Ordinary Sudan: From Social History to Politics from Below, Vol. 1, ed. Elena Vezzadini, Iris Seri-Hersch, Lucie Revilla, Anaël Poussier, and Mahassin Abdul Jalil (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), pp. 209-35. DOI 10.1515/9783110719611-008


  4. • “Bibles for Ordinary People: The British and Foreign Bible Society and Middle Eastern Vernacular Publishing,” in ‘In Partibus Fidelium’: Missions du Levant et Connaissance de l’Orient Chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles), ed. Marie Levant, Philippe Bourmaud, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Karène Sanchez Summerer and Norig Neveu (Rome: Publications de l’École Française de Rome, 2022), pp. 285-304. DOI 10.4000/books.efr.45768


  5. • “The Display of Religious Identity: Towards a Theory of Indistinguishability among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Modern Middle East” (with Ariane Sadjed), Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2022, 1-12, DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2022.2090239


  6. • “What Is Preaching and Who Is It For?” in Missions and Preaching: Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century), ed. Norig Neveu, Karène Sanchez Summerer, and Annalaura Turiano (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 127-32. DOI 10.1163/9789004449633_007


  7. • “Introduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom” (with Jeffrey E. Green), in The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom, ed. Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey E. Green (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), pp. 1-31.


  8. • “The Ottoman Tanzimat Edict of 1856 and Its Consequences for the Christians of Egypt: The Rashomon Effect in Coptic History,” in Copts in Modernity, ed. Lisa Agaiby, Nelly van Doorn-Harder, and Mark Swanson (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 21-38.


  9. • “Introduction, Part III: European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine,” in European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918-1948: Between Contention and Connection, 3ed. Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 249-54.


  10. • “American Missionaries in Egypt, Gender Relations, and the Professional and Social Formation of Women, 1854-1967”, Social Sciences and Missions, 34 (2021), pp. 62-91.


  11. • “Introduction: Christianity in the Middle East”, in Christianity in the Middle East, ed. Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), pp. xxxix-xlix.


  12. • “Reappraising ‘The History of Arabic Culture in the Sudan’ by the Egyptian Scholar ‘Abd al-Majid ‘Abidin,” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, 60:4, (2020), pp. 805-26; Thematic issue No. 240: "Soudan: identités en tension”, edited by Barbara Casciarri, Alice Franck, Stefano Manfredi & Munzoul Assal.


  13. • "The British and Foreign Bible Society's Arabic Bible Translations: A Study in Language Politics," in Chosen Peoples, Promised Lands: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das, and Brian Murray (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 111-28.


  14. • "Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds before 1900," in American and Muslim Worlds, 1500-1900 ed. John Ghazvinian and Arthur Mitchell Fraas (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 149-58.


  15. • “Foreword” for Tarik El Hadd, Colonialism and the Medical Experiences in the Sudan, 1504-1956: Volume 1: The Roots of Medicine, Medical Research, and Education (Trenton: The Red Sea Press, 2020), pp. xix-xxiv.


  16. • “Wikipedia and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Classroom,” Wiki Edu, [Link] , December 1, 2020.


  17. • “Rebooting the Classroom: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in the Time of COVID-19,” Almanac, (University of Pennsylvania), 67:20 (November 24, 2020), p. 16.


  18. • “Middle Eastern Christianity between the Local and the Global,” Ecumenical Trends, (Journal of the Graymoor Ecumenical & Religious Institute, a Ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, New York), 48:6 (2019), pp. 10-14.


  19. • “Favorite Object: A Famous Queen Mother from Benin,” Expedition, 61:2 (2019), p. 82.


  20. • “History Rhymes?  Late Ottoman Millets and Post-Ottoman Minorities in the Middle East,” Roundtable on “Minoritization and Pluralism in the Modern Middle East”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 50 (2018), pp. 760-64.


  21. • “Mission and Evangelism,” in Edinburgh Companion to Global Christianity: The Middle East and North Africa, ed. Kenneth R. Ross, Mariz Tadros, and Todd M. Johnson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), pp. 347-59.


  22. • “Prologue: The Middle East,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, ed. Mark A. Lamport (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), pp. xxxiii-xxxv.


  23. • “La Belle Africaine: The Sudanese Giraffe Who Went to France,” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines , 49:1 (2015), pp. 39-65.


  24. • “Rethinking Sudan Studies after the Independence of South Sudan,” co-authored with Elena Vezzadini and Iris Seri-Hersch, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 49:1 (2015), pp. 1-18.


  25. • “The Case of Henry Athanassian, an Armenian in the Suez Canal Zone: Questioning Assumptions about Missions and Missionaries,” in European Missions in Contact Zones: Transformation through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World, ed. Judith Becker, VIEF Beiheft 107 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015), pp. 267-85.


  26. •“The University of Pennsylvania, the Ancient Near East, and the Middle East: Connected Histories,” Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia, and the Middle East (Spring 2015), [Link] (accessed September 27, 2015).


  27. •“Things at Penn: The Social Lives of Near Eastern Objects at the University of Pennsylvania,” Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia, and the Middle East (Spring 2015), [Link] (accessed September 27, 2015).


  28. •“Le Soudan, un pays indivisible, dual ou pluriel?”, Afrique Contemporaine, 246 (2013), pp. 21-34.


  29. •“African Colonial States,” The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History, Ed. John Parker & Richard Reid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).


  30. •“Ambiguous Conversions: The Selective Adaptation of Religious Cultures in Colonial North Africa,” in Religious Conversions and Nationalism in the Mediterranean World, ed. Nadia Marzouki and Olivier Roy (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp.77-97.


  31. •“The Gospel in Arabic Tongues: British Bible Distribution, Evangelical Mission, and Language Politics in North Africa,” in Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missions in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, ed. Heather J. Sharkey (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013), pp. 203-21. 


  32. •“Language and Conflict: The Political History of Arabisation in Sudan and Algeria”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 12:3 (2012), pp. 427-49.


  33. •“Jihads and Crusades in Sudan, 1881 to the Present”,  in Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads, ed. Sohail Hashmi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 263-82.


  34. •“Christianity in the Middle East and North Africa,” in Introducing World Christianity, Ed. Charles Farhadian (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012), pp.7-20.


  35. •“The British and Foreign Bible Society in Port Said and the Suez Canal”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39:3 (2011), pp. 439-56.


  36. • “Sudanese Arabic Bibles and the Politics of Translation,” The Bible Translator, Technical Paper, 62:1 (2011), pp. 37-45.


  37. •“The Ninety-Nine Percent Referendum: Southern Sudan Votes to Secede,” Berfrois: Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters (blog), February 16, 2011.


  38. •“American Presbyterians, Freedmen’s Missions, and the Nile Valley: Missionary History, Racial Orders, and Church Politics on the World Stage,” Journal of Religious History, 35:1 (2010), pp. 24-42.


  39. •“American Missionaries, the Arabic Bible, and Coptic Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt,” in American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters, ed. Mehmet Ali Doğan and Heather J. Sharkey (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011), pp. 237-59.


  40. • “Introduction: American Missionaries and the Middle East: A History Enmeshed,” in American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters, ed. Mehmet Ali Doğan and Heather J. Sharkey (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011), pp. ix-xliii. 


  41. • An Egyptian in China: Ahmed Fahmy and the Making of World Christianities,”, Church History, 78:2 (2009), pp. 309-26.


  42. • “Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The Politics of Language, Ethnicity, and Race,” African Affairs, 107:426 (2008), 21-43.


  43. • “Muslim Apostasy, Christian Conversion, and Religious Freedom in Egypt: A Study of American Missionaries, Western Imperialism, and Human Rights Agendas”, in Proselytization Revisited: Rights, Free Markets, and Culture Wars, Ed. Rosalind I.J. Hackett (London: Equinox, 2008), pp. 139-66.


  44. • “Umm Kulthum at the American University in Cairo: A Study in the Clash of Christianities”, in The Nile Valley: Politics, Identities, Cultures, Ed. Israel Gershoni & Meir Hatina (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008), pp. 157-78.


  45. •“American Presbyterian Missionaries and the Egyptian Evangelical Church: The Colonial and Postcolonial History of a Christian Community,” Chronos: Revue d’Histoire de l’Université Balamand (Lebanon), 15 (2007), pp. 31-63.


  46. • “Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan,” in Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa, Ed. Benjamin Soares (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 57-88.


  47. •  “American Mission, Egyptian Church: The Making of a Coptic Evangelical Presbyterian Community,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84:2 (2006), pp. 170-80.


  48. • “Arabic Poetry, Nationalism, and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”, Literature and Nation in the Middle East, Ed. Yasir Suleiman & Ibrahim Muhawi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 162-78.


  49. •  “Sudan”, Muslim Cultures Today: A Reference Guide, Ed. Kathryn Coughlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), pp. 171-85.


  50. •  “Empire and Muslim Conversion: Historical Reflections on Christian Missions in Egypt,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 16:1 (2005), pp. 43-60.


  51. •  “Globalization, Migration, and Identity: Sudan, 1800-2000,” in Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity, Ed. Birgit Schaebler & Leif Stenberg, Foreword by Roy Mottahedeh (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004), pp. 113-37.


  52. • “Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: Muslim Responses to Christian Evangelism in the Modern Middle East,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 28:3 (2004), pp. 112-18.


  53. •  “Christian Missionaries and Colloquial Arabic Printing”, Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement 15: History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, Ed. Philip Sadgrove, published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester (2004), pp. 131-49.


  54. •  “Sudan: Oil and War,” in African Contemporary Record, Ed. Colin Legum, 27:1 (1999-2000) (New York: Holmes and Meier, 2004), pp. B651-B677.


  55. •  “Chronicles of Progress: Northern Sudanese Women in the Era of British Imperialism,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 31:1 (2003), pp. 51-82.


  56. •  “A New Crusade or an Old One?”, ISIM Newsletter (Leiden: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), 12 (June 2003), 48-49.


  57. •  “Colonialism, Character-Building and the Culture of Nationalism in the Sudan, 1898-1956,” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 15:1 (1998) pp. 1-26.  This article was republished in an anthology in 2003: The Decolonization Reader, Ed. James D. LeSueur (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 218-35.


  58. •  “Christians among Muslims: the Church Missionary Society in the Northern Sudan”, Journal of African History, 43 (2002), pp. 51-75.


  59. •  “The Egyptian Colonial Presence in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1932,” in White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala, Ed. Jay Spaulding & Stephanie Beswick (Lawrenceville, N.J.: Red Sea Press), 2000), pp. 279-314.


  60. •  “A Century in Print: Arabic Journalism and Nationalism in the Sudan, 1899-1999,” in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31:4 (1999), pp. 531-49.


  61. •  “Arabic Literature and the Nationalist Imagination in Kordofan,” in Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa, Ed. Michael Kevane & Endre Stiansen (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 165-79.


  62. •  “Tabaqat of the Twentieth-Century Sudan: Arabic Biographical Dictionaries as a Source for Colonial History, 1898-1956,” Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources, 6 (1995), pp. 17-34.


  63. •  “Ahmad Zayni Dahlan's al-Futuhat al-Islamiyya: A Contemporary View of the Sudanese Mahdi,” Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources, 5 (1994), pp. 95-110.  This article is also available here and here.


  64. •  “Luxury, Status, and the Importance of Slavery in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Northern Sudan,” Northeast African Studies, Vol. 1, Nos. 2-3, New Series (1994), pp. 187-206.