#  Najmabadi Wins LGBT History Prize 

 





January 07, 2015

 

 

The [Committee on LGBT History](http://clgbthistory.org/) has named WGS Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi a co-winner of its 2015 John Boswell Prize. The [Boswell Prize](http://clgbthistory.org/prizes/john-boswell-prize) is awarded every other year to the best book in LGBT history published in the prior two years.

Professor Najmabadi was honored for her 2014 book, *[Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Professing-Selves/).* Her co-winner, Phil Tiemeyer of Philadelphia University, received the prize for *[Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520274778).*



 

 

 



 

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