Fera Simone

Fera Simone completed her Ph.D. in Intellectual History and Political Theory from the University of Colorado and went on to a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the American Studies Program at Yale University. Simone is currently involved in a study of S.G.W. Benjamin, the first American envoy to Iran in 1833-1885. Simone is the founder of the Women International Network for Community Leadership and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Women International Center for Democracy, and Nonviolence International. Simone has served as a visiting professor at The George Washington University, an Associate and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Tehran University where she also served as the Dean of Women and Deputy Associate Director for Student Affairs. As a journalist, Simone served as a Managing Editor and International Broadcaster for the Voice of America at the USIA, a regional editor of the Journal of American Studies International at The George Washington University, and Assistant Director of Research and Publication at the Franklin Book Company in Tehran. Her publications include A History of American Social and Political Developments, Tehran University Press 1978, and A Study of Social and Political Thought of Mirza Malkam Khan Nazim Ud Dula, Franklin Book Programs, Tehran. 1975.