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          Iranian American scholar Pardis Mahdavi was once arrested in Tehran for lecturing about Iran's sexual revolution.

        1. Pardis Mahdavi is an Iranian-American who is the author of several books, including "Hyphen" and "Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution.
        2. As a highly accomplished higher education leader, academic, author and activist, Mahdavi has been able to weave her life around each endeavor.
        3. Download Citation | Pardis Mahdavi, Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, ).
        4. Pardis Mahdavi, PhD, is currently Dean of Social Sciences and director of the School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

          5. As a highly accomplished higher education leader, academic, author and activist, Mahdavi has been able to weave her life around each endeavor..

          Pardis Mahdavi

          American journalist and academic

          Pardis Mahdavi is an American scholar and former president of University of La Verne.[1] Previously, she was the provost and executive vice president of the University of Montana, the dean of social sciences at Arizona State University, acting dean of Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and the dean of women and chair of anthropology at Pomona College.

          Biography

          Mahdavi received her BA in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College; an MA in anthropology from Columbia University; an MIA (Master of International Affairs) from Columbia University; and a PhD in sociomedical sciences and anthropology from Columbia University.

          Career and research.

          She has been a fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Google Ideas. Appointed by Governor Hickenlooper and re-appointed by Governor Jared Polis,