Susan Maneck received her AB at the University of California at Santa Cruz in Religious Studies, her M.A. at the University of Arizona in Oriental Studies, and her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Asian History and European History.
She is a Retired Associate Professor of History at Jackson State University in Mississippi.
Her publications include:
“Ancient India”, Early World History: An Interactive Text, National Social Science Press, 2010
“Accusations Against the Baha’is within the Context of Islamic Heresiography” Center for the Study of New Religions 2009
“Baha’i Women” in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, vol. 2, Brill Press, 2004
About Philosophy: A Multi-Cultural Approach, Wolf, Davis, Maneck and Crump. Pearson, 2004.
“Tahirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood” in Tahirih in History, ed. S. Afaqi, Kalimat Press, 2004.
Editor: Study Guide, Workbook, Reader: The Earth and It’s People, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.)
“Women within the Baha’i Community” in Women and Religion in India. Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Death of Ahriman: Culture, Identity and Theological Change Among the Parsis of India (Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 1997)
“The Presbyterians and the Parsis” in Fides et Historia. Vol XXI, No. 2 June, 1989, pp. 51-60.
“Early Zoroastrian Conversions to the Baha’i Faith in Yazd, Iran” in Juan Cole ed. From Iran East and West (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press 1984) pp. 67-93.
“A Question of Gender: Women in the Kitab-I Aqdas” Dialogue Vol. 2, No. 1. Fall, 1987, pp. 17-18.
“The Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Baha’i Faith in Iran: some Preliminary Observations” in The Journal of Baha’i Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1991, pp. 39-54.
“Tahirih: een religieus voorbeld voor de vrouw” in Uit Baha’i Vizier July-November, 1993
“Women and the Baha’i Faith” in Women and Religion. SUNY Press, 1994, pp. 211-27.
“Imaani-Zardoshtiaan Beh Diyaanat-I Baha’i” in Pazhuheshname, Vol. 1, No. 1. Summer 1996, pp. 126-51
“Wisdom and Dissimulation” in Baha’i Studies Reveiw, Vol. 6, 1996, pp. 11-23. 3
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