# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-afary
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:13:04.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-afary"
name: "Janet Afary"
slug: "janet-afary"
description: "Janet Afary is an author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies. She is a professor and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)."
tagline: "Author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies."
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.07078130872343
  historical:           10.14758933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.janetafary.com"
sources:
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    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جانيت عفارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Afari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "জেনেট আফারি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Afary"
    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Afary"
    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ژانت آفاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Afary"
    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Afary"
    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਜੈਨੇਟ ਅਫਰੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Afary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جانیت عفاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump