Pardis Mahdavi

Pardis Mahdavi is Dean of Social Sciences in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA. She is a non-fiction writer with 20 years of experience as an anthropologist, public health researcher, and expert in sexual politics across the globe. She is the author of six books, including, most recently, Hyphen, as well as the first book on sexual politics of modern Iran, Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution.