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Morningside Heights
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
The Middle East Institute (MEI) and SIPA present the second lecture in the Spring 2008 series - Three decades of the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Are There Homosexuals in Iran?"
Janet Afary has a Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the
Her dissertation also received the annual award for Best Dissertation of the Year from the Foundation for Iranian Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies (Joint Appointment), and an affiliate Associate Professor of Political Science, at
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).
