Janet Afary

{{Infobox scholar

| name = Janet Afary

| image =

| caption =

| other_names = Janet Afary Anderson

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = University of Tehran,
University of Michigan

| workplaces = Purdue University,
University of California, Santa Barbara

| awards = Balzan Prize (2008–2009)

| spouse = Kevin B. Anderson

| thesis_year = 1991

| discipline = religious studies, history

| thesis_title = Grassroots Democracy and Social Democracy in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911 (Vol. I, II)

| thesis_url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295404058_Grassroots_democracy_and_social_democracy_in_the_Iranian_Constitutional_Revolution_1906-1911_Volumes_I_and_II

| website = {{url|http://www.janetafary.com/}}

| native_name = ژانت آفاری

| native_name_lang = fa

| birth_place = New York City

}}

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

She received her M.A. degree from University of Tehran.{{cite web|url= https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/janet-afary | title= Janet Afary | publisher = University of California, Santa Barbara }} In 1991, she received her PhD in History and Near East studies from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.{{cite web|title=Janet Afary | Department of Feminist Studies – UC Santa Barbara|url=http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/janet-afary|url-status=live|accessdate=2014-12-28|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830083301/http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/janet-afary|archivedate=2016-08-30}} 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.{{cite magazine |last=Mishra |first=P |date=2005 |title=No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson |url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN178102733&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN178102733 |magazine=NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS |location=United States |publisher=N Y R E V, INC |access-date=2022-06-20 |archive-date=October 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026083521/http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN178102733&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN178102733 |url-status=dead }}

Afary is a professor of religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.{{Cite web|last1=Mostaghim|first1=Rahmin|last2=Alpert|first2=Emily|date=September 30, 2012|title=Iran Mulls Websites to Fix 'Marriage Crisis'|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/240981272/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Chicago Tribune|language=en}} She previously taught at in the History Department and Women's Studies at Purdue University.{{Cite web|date=September 19, 2007|title=Forum: Is Iran Next?|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/265460326/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana)|page=13|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Wrighthouse|first=Phil|date=September 21, 2007|title=Talk Examines Tensions Between United States, Iran|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/265461378/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana)|page=10|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=March 31, 1997|title=Trustees Approve Faculty Member Promotions for 1997–1998|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/264623298/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana)|page=10|language=en}} In the 1980s, she served as the coordinator for the Iranian Jewish Association of California.{{Cite web|last=Lindsay|first=Robert|date=April 10, 1980|title=Exiles Who Fled Iran May Have No Place|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/568748254/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)|page=38|language=en}} 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).

Bibliography

=Articles=

{{cite journal |last1=Afary |first1=Janet |last2=Afary |first2=Kamran |date=2021 |title=Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia |url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCvdc_100132418556.0x000001&indx=1&recIds=ETOCvdc_100132418556.0x000001 |journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=563–595 |doi=10.1080/13530194.2019.1659130 |s2cid=203436235 |issn=1353-0194 |access-date=2022-09-07|url-access=subscription }}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2020 |title= The Place Of Shi'I Clerics in the First Iranian Constitution |url=

https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b86d16f6be508731fcdd90ed9dc84805 |journal= I.B.Tauris |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= 10.5040/9780755608966.ch-003 |isbn= 978-1-78453-134-8 |access-date= 2022-10-26|url-access= subscription }}

{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2019 |title= Iran: A Modern History |url= http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCvdc_100089233810.0x000001&indx=1&recIds=ETOCvdc_100089233810.0x00 |journal= Iranian Studies |volume= 52 |issue= 3–4 |pages= 648–652 |doi= 10.1080/00210862.2019.1649005 |s2cid= 203311254 |issn= 0021-0862 |access-date= 2022-09-07|url-access= subscription }}
{{cite journal |last1= Afary |first1= Janet |last2= Friedland |first2= Roger |date= 2018 |title= Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East |url= http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2050303218800374 |journal= Critical Research on Religion |volume= 6 |issue= 3|pages= 243–268 |doi= 10.1177/2050303218800374 |s2cid= 155951849 |access-date= 2022-10-26|url-access= subscription }}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2011 |title= 'Mahnaz Afkhami: A Memoir' |url= https://muse.jhu.edu/article/408732 |journal= Journal of Middle East Women's Studies |volume= 1 |issue= 1 |pages= 147–157 |issn= 1558-9579 |access-date= 2022-09-07}}
{{cite journal |last1= Afary |first1= Janet |last2= Schweickart |first2= Patsy |last3= Carroll |first3= Bernice A |date= 2006 |title= Feminism, Peace, and War |url= https://muse.jhu.edu/article/205321 |journal= NWSA Journal |volume= 18 |issue= 3 |pages= vii–x |issn= 1527-1889 |access-date= 2022-09-07}}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2005 |title= Civil Liberties and the Making of Iran's First Constitution |url= https://muse.jhu.edu/article/186819 |journal= Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East |volume= 25 |issue= 2 |pages= 341–359 |doi= 10.1215/1089201X-25-2-341 |s2cid= 143198998 |issn= 1548-226X |access-date= 2022-09-07|url-access= subscription }}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2004 |title= Seeking a Feminist Politics for the Middle East after September 11 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/3347261 |journal= Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies |volume= 25 |issue= 1 |pages= 128–137 |doi= 10.1353/fro.2004.0028 |jstor= 3347261 |s2cid= 153364608 |issn= 0160-9009 |access-date= 2022-09-07|url-access= subscription }}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 2004 |title= The Human Rights of Middle Eastern &(and) Muslim Women: A Project for the 21st Century |url= https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hurq26&div=11 |journal= Human Rights Quarterly |volume= 26 |issue= 1 |pages= 106–125 |doi= 10.1353/hrq.2004.0002 |s2cid= 143868026 |issn= 0275-0392 |access-date= 2022-09-07|url-access= subscription }}
{{cite journal |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 1996 |title= Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: Shifting Gender Roles in Twentieth Century Iran |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316422 |journal= NWSA Journal |volume= 8 |issue= 1 |pages= 28–49 |jstor= 4316422 |issn= 1040-0656 |access-date= 2022-09-07}}

=Books=

{{cite book |last1=Afary |first1=Janet |author-link=Janet Afary |date=2022 |title=Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 |last2=Kamran |first2=Afary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgzIzgEACAAJ |location= |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |pages=398 |isbn=9781474499507}}
{{Cite book |last1=Afary |first1=Janet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRkMEAAAQBAJ |title=Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage |last2=Faust |first2=Jesilyn |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=9780755618286}}
{{Cite book |last=Dehkhoda |first=Ali-Akbar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jicVDAAAQBAJ |title=Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909 |collaboration=Janet Afary, John R. Perry |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2016 |pages=335 |isbn=9780300197990 |translator-last=Afary |translator-first=Janet}}
Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar: Women, Reproduction and the State (Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East), 2020 (Contributor)
{{Cite book |last= Afary |first= Janet |title= Agha, Najafī |publisher= Brill |year= 2013}} {{ISBN|978-9-004-17678-2}}
{{cite book |last=Afary |first=Janet |date=2011 |title=Women in Iran |url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/sharpemideast/women_in_iran/0 |location= |publisher=Routledge |page= |isbn=978-0-7656-8094-5}}
{{cite book |last=Afary |first=Janet |date=2010 |title=Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources |location= |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=223 |isbn=978-0-252-07736-4}}
{{Cite book |last=Afary |first=Janet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ |title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9781107394353}} (Winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize)
{{Cite book |title= Enghelab-e Mashrouteh-ye Iran انقلاب مشروطۀ ایران |last= Afary |first= Janet |authorlink= Janet Afary |year= 2009 |publisher= |isbn= |pages= 570 |url= https://www.amazon.com/Enghelab-Mashrouteh-ye-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B7%DB%80-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/dp/B01ATTO5CU/ref=sr_1_10?qid=1675242330&refinements=p_27%3AJanet+Afary&s=books&sr=1-10 |accessdate= 2023-02-01}}
{{Cite book|last1=Afary|first1=Janet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-jhK7IeQIgC|title=Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism|last2=Anderson|first2=Kevin B.|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2005|isbn=9780226007854|location=Chicago, Illinois|author-link2=Kevin B. Anderson}} (Winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women's Studies, 2006)
{{Cite book |title= The War against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism. |last= Afary |first= Janet |authorlink= Janet Afary |year= 1997 |publisher= New Left Review |isbn= |pages= |url= https://www.amazon.com/against-Feminism-Name-Almighty-Fundamentalism/dp/B00AWGR7Z8/ref=sr_1_11?qid=1675242330&refinements=p_27%3AJanet+Afary&s=books&sr=1-11 |accessdate= 2023-02-01}}
{{cite book |last= Afary |first= Janet |date= 1997 |title= Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions |url= https://www.amazon.com/Spoils-War-Women-Cultures-Revolutions-ebook/dp/B00BZC1W3Q/ref=sr_1_10?qid=1669874919&refinements=p_27%3AJanet+Afary&s=books&sr=1-10 |location= |publisher= Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |pages= 198 |isbn=}}
{{Cite book|last=Afary|first=Janet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1HnWr4rZucC|title=The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780231103510|series=History and Society of the Modern Middle East Series|location=New York City}}

Honours and awards

She was the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan.
Afary was awarded the Keddie/Balzan Fellowship by the International Balzan Prize Foundation for the 2008–2009 academic year to work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).{{Cite web|date=January 20, 2008|title=Campus Notebook, Awards and Honors|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/265359251/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Journal and Courier|page=31|language=en}}
Dehkhoda Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Iranian Studies (Germany).

Sources

External links

[https://www.britannica.com/contributor/Janet-Afary/4790 Contributors: Janet Afary, Britannica]
{{Official website|http://www.janetafary.com/}}
[https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/janet-afary Afary, Janet's profile] at Edinburgh University
[https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/janet-afary Janet Afary] at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
[https://globalejournal.org/contributors/janet-afary Contributor Profile: Janet Afary, Global Journal]
[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/A/J/au5357595.html Janet Afary's publications, The University of Chicago Press]
[http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCRN265242363&indx=1&recIds=ETOCRN265242363 Birds and Cages Amy Littlefield's review of Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran]
{{cite book |last= Afary |first= Janet |author-link= Janet Afary |date= 2022 |title= Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 |location= |publisher= Edinburgh University Press |pages= 398 |isbn= 978-1-474-49950-7}}
[http://abstractairanica.revues.org/41038 Janet Afary (Guest editor): Iranian Studies, Special issue: On gender a]