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Janet Afary
Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor,
1991
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BRNG Room 6156 (Beering
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afary@purdue.edu |
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West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087
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Biography:
Dr.
Janet Afary has a Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the
University
of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, where she received the Horace H.
Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her dissertation also
received the annual award for Best Dissertation of the Year from the
Foundation for Iranian Studies. She is a Professor of History
and Women's Studies (Joint Appointment), and an affiliate
Professor of Political Science, at
Purdue
University. In 2006 Dr.
Afary was appointed University Faculty Scholar. This five year
appointment is made by Purdue’s President. Dr. Afary is author of the
forthcoming book, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge
University Press, 2008). Her previous publications include: The
Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social
Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (N. Y.: Columbia UP, 1996),
which was also translated and published in
Iran
(Bisotoun, 2000); and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the
Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University
of Chicago Press,
2005). This book received the Latifeh Yarshater Award for Best Book in
Iranian Women's Studies and was a first runner-up for the book award
from the Association for Humanist Sociology. Dr. Afary has also
received year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS).
She has served as president of the International Society for Iranian
Studies (ISIS-MESA, 2004-2006); the Association for Middle East Women's
Studies (AMEWS-MESA, 2004-2005), and the Coordinating Council for Women
in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA, 2001-2003). |
