to show the disconnect between reality in Dubai and the discourse surrounding the nation. Teaching career Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology 2011–2017 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College 2006–2017 Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Health, New York University, Summer 2007 Teaching Assistant, Columbia University School of Public Health, 2006 Teaching Assistant, Barnard College, 2005 Research Assistant, Columbia University School of Public Health, 2005 Visiting Scholar, Tehran University, 2004 Instructor, School of International Affairs, Columbia University, 2003 Practicum Coordinator, Columbia University School of Public Health, 2002 Selected works Books From Trafficking to Terror (Routledge, 2014) Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2011) Passionate Uprisings: The Intersection of Sexuality and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Stanford University Press, 2008) Articles "Youth, Sexuality and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran," in Handbook on Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (P. Aggleton and R. Parker, eds., Routledge, 2010) "Who Will Catch Me if I Fall? Health and the Infrastructure of Risk for Urban Iranians" in Contemporary Iran (A. Gheissari, ed., Oxford University Press, 2009) “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” Anthropology News, October 2008 “Passionate Uprisings: the Intersection of Sexuality and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” Culture, Health and Sexuality, Fall 2007 “Fashion and the Meaning of Tehrani Style,” Anthropology News, March 2007 “Iran’s Cyber-Sexual Revolution,” ISIM Review (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), Spring 2007 “Women, Gender and Sexualities: Modern Sex Education Manuals: Iran” and “Women, Gender and Sexualities: Practices: Iran,” in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (S. Joseph and A. Najmabadi, eds., Harvard Press, 2005) Honors Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012, 2017 National Development and Research Institute, Behavioral Science Training Fellowship, 2004–present Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Fellowship in Women’s Health, 2005—present Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy, Fellowship, 2005–present Society for Medical Anthropology/Society for Applied Anthropology, Del Jones Award for outstanding research to underserved populations, 2006 American Public Health Association, Outstanding Student Award in recognition of innovative and outstanding new scholarship in the field of public health, 2005 Asia Society's top leaders in Asia, 2008 See also List of American print journalists Middle Eastern Studies Tehran Times Huffington Post Human rights in Iran Crime in the United Arab Emirates References External links "Traffic Jam: Gender, Labor, Migration and Trafficking in Dubai" "Pardis Mahdavi" "Pardis Mahdavi" "Pardis Mahdavi" American women non-fiction writers Pomona College faculty Living people American people of Iranian descent