Professional Affiliation

University of California, Santa Barbara

Expert Bio

Janet Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. Her books include: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009, winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize),  and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005, winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women’s Studies).  Her latest publication (with Jesilyn Faust) is Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage (Bloomsbury Press, 2021).