#  Afsaneh Najmabadi 

Faculty Associate (emeritus). 

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Emerita, Department of History, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 smartphone [(617) 496-7460](<tel:(617) 496-7460>) 

 email <najmabad@fas.harvard.edu> 

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 laptop\_windows [Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran](https://www.qajarwomen.org) 

 

 



 

**Research interests:** Sociocultural transformations of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and South Asia.





 

 

 





 

 

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