Dr. Janet Afary received her M.A. from the Department of Literature of Tehran University and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies (Joint Appointment), and an affiliate Associate Professor of Political Science, at Purdue University. In 2006 Dr. Afary was appointed University Faculty Scholar for five years by Purdue president. Dr. Afary is author of 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) and (with Kevin B. Anderson) author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005). This book was the winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Award for Best Book in Iranian Women's Studies. Dr. Afary was also awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). She 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 President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA, 2004-2006) and has served as past-president of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS-MESA, 2004-2005), and the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA, 2001-2003).