Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, the latest book from WGS's Afsaneh Najmabadi, has received the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Society. Established in 1984, the prize honors the year's "most outstanding book in women’s history and/or feminist theory."

Najmabadi's previous book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, received the Kelly Prize in 2005. Along with Gail Hershatter of University of California, Santa Cruz, she is one of only two historians to win the prize twice.