{"id":66,"date":"2025-11-21T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=66"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:31:09","slug":"janet-afary","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/speaker\/janet-afary\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Afary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Janet Afary<\/strong>&nbsp;is Mellichamp Professor of Global Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on Iran various aspects of modern Iran, with a focus on gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. She is a&nbsp;historian of modern Iran and has a PhD in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Rackham Dissertation Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her award-winning books include:&nbsp;<em>Sexual Politics in Modern Iran<\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2009, winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize);&nbsp;<em>The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism<\/em>&nbsp;(Columbia University Press, 1996, winner of Dehkhoda Institute Book Award); (with Kevin B. Anderson)&nbsp;<em>Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism<\/em>&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2005, winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women\u2019s Studies);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She publishes frequently in both academic journals and also more mainstream publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":67,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Mellichamp Professor of Global Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara","speaker_last_name":"Afary","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}