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Afshan Jafar鈥檚 research and teaching interests include globalization, transnational women's movements, the Muslim diaspora, gender, media, and the body. Professor Jafar regularly teaches, Introduction to Sociology; Gender, Culture, and the Body; Sex Gender, and Society; Sociology of Globalization. 

Professor Jafar was the 2021 recipient of the Helen B. Regan Faculty Leadership Award. The award recognizes 鈥渇aculty members who exemplify the College's commitment to shared governance, democratic process and campus community development.鈥� She was the 2015 recipient of the Feminist Activism Award presented by Sociologists for Women in Society. She was also the 2014 recipient of the the Helen Mulvey Faculty Award at 糖心TV presented to an assistant professor who 鈥渞egularly offers classes that challenge students to work harder than they thought they could and to reach unanticipated levels of academic achievement鈥�.

She is the author of 鈥淲omen鈥檚 NGOs in Pakistan鈥� (2011) and the co-editor of (with Erynn Masi de Casanova) of "Global Beauty, Local Bodies" (2013) and "Bodies Without Borders" (2013). Her scholarship has appeared in Teaching Sociology, Gender & Society, Social Problems, Academe, and Gender Issues. Her public scholarship has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Review of Books, Inside Higher Ed, and Ms. Magazine, among others.

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Major in Sociology.