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Julian Weideman studies modern North Africa and the Middle East from a global perspective, focusing on universities, law, political economy, and Islamic thought. Since joining UCL in 2025, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto (2023-2025), the University of British Columbia (2022-2023), and Princeton University (2021-2022). His selected publications include 'Making Mosque-University: Political Economy Reform Colonial North Africa' (forthcoming Columbia Studies in Global International History, Columbia University Press), 'Tunisian Islam, Women’s Rights, Limits French Empire 20th Century North Africa' (American Historical Review 128, 1, March 2023), 'Praxis Reform: Politics Zaytuna Student Housing Colonial Tunis' (Journal Economic Social History Orient 65, 2022), and 'Tahar Haddad Bourguiba Bin ʿAli: Reformist Secularists Islamists' (International Journal Middle East Studies 48, 1, February 2016).