Pardis Mahdavi on Belonging
"Our collective American future must be a welcoming, inclusive place where belonging can be a reality for everyone."
Pardis Mahdavi is a professor and director of ASU's School of Social Transformation. Previously, she was acting dean at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and, before that, a professor and chair of anthropology at Pomona College. Mahdavi earned her bachelor's degree in diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College and her master's, M.Phil and PhD at Columbia University.
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