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Valentine Moghadam

Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies Office: BRNG 6164
Office Phone: (765) 494-1494
Email: vmoghada@purdue.edu

Specialization:

Sociology of gender, gender and development, globalization and transnational social movements, sociology and political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

Courses: Taught

SOC 591B:  Women’s Movements in the Middle East: The Role of States, Strategies, and the Global Context
SOC 399: Sociology of Developing Nations
SOC 388: Global Social Movements
SOC 450: Global Gender Roles
SOC 529: Political Economy (Fall 09)

Valentine M. Moghadam came to Purdue in January 2007 on a joint appointment as Director of the Women’s Studies Program and as Professor of Sociology.  From 2004-2006 she served as Chief of the Section on Gender Equality and Development in the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO, in Paris, France. Prior to that she was Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s Studies at Illinois State University.

Born in Iran, Dr. Moghadam has devoted much research to development, social change, and gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan, but she also studies and publishes on the social and gender dynamics of globalization.  Her first book, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003) was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1993-94. Her third book, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005) received the American Political Science Association’s Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on Women and Politics in 2005 (August, 2006). She also has edited and contributed to seven books, most recently Social Policy and Economic Development in the Middle East (2006) and From Patriarchy to Empowerment? Participation, Rights and Women’s Movements in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (2007).  She is currently under contract with SUNY Press for an edited volume on social rights, trade unions, and women’s economic citizenship, to appear in 2011.

She is a founding member and past president of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies and a founding contributor to the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Service to the Profession:

Member, American Sociological Association (ASA) Program Committee 2006

Member of Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology 1994-96; 2008- present; Reviewer: ASR, ASJ, CS, Sociological Theory, Social Forces, Social Problems, Gender & Society.

Member of PEWS [Political Economy of the World-System] Council, 2003-05. ASA representative to ISA Council, World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 2006.

Member, International Sociological Association, since 1990.

Member of Executive Committee (2006-2010); Elected to Council of National Associations, representing ASA.

Reviewer, International Sociology, Current Sociology, International Sociology Review of Books

Newsletter editor, RC-32 (Women in Society), 1998-2000

Regional representative, Research Committee on Women in Society (RC-32), 1992-1994

Jury Member, 1993, Second Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists

Honors and awards:

Dr. Moghadam has held three fellowships – at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (1988-89) for a study of women and revolution in Iran and Afghanistan; a Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Fellowship for Regional Research on economic liberalization and women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa, the subject of her second book (Fall 1996); and a public policy fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001-02), for research on her third book.

At Illinois State University she received a number of awards and grants for research, teaching, and team excellence. She is the recipient of an ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant (2003-04) for research on women’s movements in the Middle East and North Africa.

She has been a consultant to many international organizations and lectures widely.

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