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Pardis Mahdavi
Pomona College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Pomona College - Dept of Anth.
420 North Harvard Ave Hahn Building
Claremont CA 91711
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Gulf Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Iran
Specialties
Migration, Sexuaility, Labor, Health
Languages
Persian (native)
English (native)
French (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2006 | Anthropology/SMS | Columbia University
MA | 2004 | Anthropology | Columbia University
MA | 2002 | International Affairs | Columbia University
BA | 2000 | Diplomacy and World Affairs | Occidental College
Abstracts
Traffic Jam: Gender, Sexuality, Migration and Trafficking in Dubai, UAE Re-Thinking Human Trafficking and Sex Work in the UAE Ethnographies of Power and Privilege: Examining Racialized Morality and Developmentalist Approaches to Gulf Migration through Lived Experience