She holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, 1998) and the University of Oxford (BCL, 1999), and history degrees from McGill University (BA, 1996) and Princeton University (PhD, 2006). She served as a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 2005 to 2007. Sharafi's research has been supported and recognized by the Institute for Advanced Study (through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Her book manuscript was the winner of the Mellon-sponsored 'First Book' workshop at the University of Wisconsin in 2010-11. In 2007, her dissertation (also on Parsi legal history) was awarded the Canadian South Asia Council's Dissertation Award Grand Prize.show more