Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.A., Tehran University

Professor Afary was awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and has received grants from the SOROS and IREX foundations.  Dr. Afary has co-edited three volumes and published numerous articles, many of which have also been translated or reprinted in Iran, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Britain.  She is currently  President of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS-MESA, 2004-2005), and President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA, 2004-2006). She was also past-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA).

Co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution:  Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

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)