Pardis Mahdavi

Pardis Mahdavi, Ph.D., is the former president of the University of La Verne. She also served as the provost and executive vice president at the University of Montana, a dean at Arizona State University and the University of Denver, and in multiple roles at Pomona College.

Mahdavi’s research interests include gendered labor, human trafficking, migration, human rights, and public health in changing global and political structures. She has published seven single-authored books, two edited volumes, and numerous journal and news articles. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young President’s Organization and has been a fellow at the Social Sciences Research Council, the American Council on Learned Societies, Google Ideas, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She serves as a board member for the Lumina Foundation and the Human Trafficking Legal Center.

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