Farnaz Ma'súmián has been teaching world religions at institutions of higher education since 1992, including the University of Texas at Austin since 2005. Her primary research interests are in the areas of life after death, near-death experiences (NDEs), and meditation.

Her Life After Death book has so far been translated into Russian, Polish, and Indonesian languages and won first prize in religion/spirituality category at the 1998 Beijing, China Book Fair.