Janet Afary

Janet Afary is an Iranian author, feminist activist and researcher in history, religious studies and women studies. She now lives in the United States of America, and teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Janet Afary
Nationality United States
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Career

Her research field includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender and sexuality in modern Middle East. She is known for her writings and research on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.

Afary is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her M.A. from University of Tehran. In 1991, she received her PhD in History and Near East studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[1] She was the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan.

Bibliography

Personal life

Afary is married to Kevin B. Anderson, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] They have a daughter Lena T. Afary and a granddaughter Leila Afary Lucas. Janet is the oldest child in a family of 6, and is the oldest sibling of all 4 children.

Birth and early life

Janet Afary was born on July 16, 1958, in New York. She lived there for a few years, then moved to Japan with her family. Again, they lived there for a few years then moved to her mother's home country, Iran. Afary then stayed there for many years, until she went to America for high school, but went back to Iran to get a second degree. She married Samuel Taftian and gave birth to her only child, daughter Lena Afary. However, the marriage did not work out, and when her daughter was 6 years old, they moved to the United States. Later, Afary married Kevin B. Anderson and started a family in California.

See also

Sources
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2014-12-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Anderson, K.B. (2010). Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pg. vii.
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