Afshan Jafar

Afshan is originally from Pakistan. She came to the U.S. for her undergraduate and graduate studies (Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst respectively). She is now a Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College. Her research and teaching interests are globalization, transnational women’s movements, fundamentalist and nationalist movements, gender, and the body. Her public scholarship has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Review of Books, and Ms. Magazine, among others.

She can be reached at ajafar@conncoll.edu