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Janet Afary

Janet Afary is an author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies. She is a professor and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Career[edit]

She received her M.A. degree from University of Tehran.[1] In 1991, she received her PhD in History and Near East studies from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.[2] Afary is married to Kevin B. Anderson, a fellow professor at UCSB.


Her research fields includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender, sexuality in modern Middle East, constitutionalism, civil liberties, the public sphere in the Middle East, cinema and popular culture of the Middle East, global feminism, feminist theory, modern Transcaucasia & Central Asia: art and folklore. She is known for her writings and research on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, the Guardian, and numerous scholarly journals and edited collections.[1][3]


Afary is a professor of religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.[4] She previously taught at in the History Department and Women's Studies at Purdue University.[5][6][7] In the 1980s, she served as the coordinator for the Iranian Jewish Association of California.[8] She has served as president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA), the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS-MESA), and the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA).[1]

Afary, Janet; Afary, Kamran (2021). . British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 48 (4): 563–595. doi:10.1080/13530194.2019.1659130. ISSN 1353-0194. S2CID 203436235. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia"

Afary, Janet (2020). . I.B.Tauris. doi:10.5040/9780755608966.ch-003. ISBN 978-1-78453-134-8. Retrieved October 26, 2022.

"The Place Of Shi'I Clerics in the First Iranian Constitution"

Afary, Janet (2019). . Iranian Studies. 52 (3–4): 648–652. doi:10.1080/00210862.2019.1649005. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 203311254. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Iran: A Modern History"

Afary, Janet; Friedland, Roger (2018). . Critical Research on Religion. 6 (3): 243–268. doi:10.1177/2050303218800374. S2CID 155951849. Retrieved October 26, 2022.

"Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East"

Afary, Janet (2011). . Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 1 (1): 147–157. ISSN 1558-9579. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"'Mahnaz Afkhami: A Memoir'"

Afary, Janet; Schweickart, Patsy; Carroll, Bernice A (2006). . NWSA Journal. 18 (3): vii–x. ISSN 1527-1889. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Feminism, Peace, and War"

Afary, Janet (2005). . Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 25 (2): 341–359. doi:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-341. ISSN 1548-226X. S2CID 143198998. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Civil Liberties and the Making of Iran's First Constitution"

Afary, Janet (2004). . Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 25 (1): 128–137. doi:10.1353/fro.2004.0028. ISSN 0160-9009. JSTOR 3347261. S2CID 153364608. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Seeking a Feminist Politics for the Middle East after September 11"

Afary, Janet (2004). . Human Rights Quarterly. 26 (1): 106–125. doi:10.1353/hrq.2004.0002. ISSN 0275-0392. S2CID 143868026. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"The Human Rights of Middle Eastern &(and) Muslim Women: A Project for the 21st Century"

Afary, Janet (1996). . NWSA Journal. 8 (1): 28–49. ISSN 1040-0656. JSTOR 4316422. Retrieved September 7, 2022.

"Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: Shifting Gender Roles in Twentieth Century Iran"

Politics of Iran

She was the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan.

[1]

Afary was awarded the Keddie/Balzan Fellowship by the for the 2008–2009 academic year to work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[9]

International Balzan Prize Foundation

Dehkhoda Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Iranian Studies (Germany).

[1]

Contributors: Janet Afary, Britannica

Official website

at Edinburgh University

Afary, Janet's profile

Contributor Profile: Janet Afary, Global Journal

Janet Afary's publications, The University of Chicago Press

Birds and Cages Amy Littlefield's review of Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

(2022). Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911. Edinburgh University Press. p. 398. ISBN 978-1-474-49950-7.

Afary, Janet

Janet Afary (Guest editor): Iranian Studies, Special issue: On gender a