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Pardis Mahdavi, Ph.D., is associate professor and chair of anthropology at Pomona College. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality in the Muslim world, including gendered labor, sexual politics, labor migration, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health, and human trafficking. She is the author of Passionate Uprisings: The Intersection of Sexuality and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2008), Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai (2011), and From Trafficking to Terror (2013). She is currently researching the impacts of gendered migrations on family and love across Asia.
She has held fellowships with the Social Science Research Council, the Asia Research Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Policy, Google Ideas, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Asia Society Asia21 Young Leaders Initiative.
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