Afsaneh Najmabadi teaches History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her last book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. She is an associate editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Leiden: Brill, 2004-2008). Professor Najmabadi’s most recent researches have been concerned with the study of the ways in which concepts and practices of sex and sexuality have transformed in Iran, from the late-nineteenth-century to the present-day Iran. She is currently working on Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, a two-volume project I. Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran; and II. Genus of Sex: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Twentieth-Century Iran.
