Pardis Mahdavi
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Pardis Mahdavi

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Pardis Mahdavi, PhD, is an American scholar and author who is currently the Founder/CEO of Entheon and a Member of the Board of Directors at the Lumina Foundation. She is a former president of the University of La Verne, was the Provost and Executive Vice President of the Univeristy of Montana, the Dean of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, Acting Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and was an Associate Professor, Chair of Anthropology, and Director of the Pacific Basin Institute and Dean of Women at Pomona College. Her research interests include gendered labor, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism, and public health in the context of changing global and political structures. She is the author of eight books: her first book, Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution, was published by Stanford University Press in 2008, and her most recent book, Riding, was published by Duke University Press in 2025. Pardis was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the Asia Society, and has received fellowships and awards from institutions such as Google Ideas, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Drug Research Institute, the American Public Health Association, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She was selected as Arizona's Most Intriguing Women of the Decade in 2022, and was awarded a Lifetime Membership on the Council on Foreign Relations. Mahdavi was recognized by the Luce Foundation for her project, "New American Conversation: Belonging and Identity Politics Re-Loaded" and has been honored by the Aspen Institute as a Justice and Society Fellow. She has consulted for a wide array of organizations including the U.S. government, Google Inc., and the United Nations. In 2012, she won the Wig Award for teaching at Pomona College.
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