Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, for the publication of her latest book, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Duke University Press, December 2013). Dr. Najmabadi is the author of several other books; teaches in Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and leads the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran project, which received support from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute.
