Members of the Executive Committee

Valentine Moghadam USA

Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam heads research on women and gender in the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO, in Paris. Previously she was Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. In January 2007 she will join Purdue University as Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies and Director of the Women’s Studies Program. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam obtained her Ph.D. in sociology from the American University in Washington, D.C. in 1986. From 1990 through 1995 she was Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development at the WIDER Institute of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER), and was based in Helsinki, Finland. She was a member of the UNU delegation to two UN conferences: the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, March 1995), and the Fourth World Conference on Women (in Beijing in September 1995). Her books include Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (second edition 2003); Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998); Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005). She lectures and publishes widely, consults several international organizations, and is a member of a number of professional associations, research networks, and feminist organizations. Service to ASA: Member, ASA 2006 Program Committee; Member of Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology 1994-96; Reviewer: ASR, ASJ, CS, Sociological Theory, Gender & Society, Social Forces. Member of PEWS [Political Economy of the World-System] Council, 2003-05. Service to ISA: Member of ISA and Research Committee on Women in Society (RC-32) since 1990; Jury Member, 1993, Second Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists; RC-32 Regional representative 1992-1994; RC-32 newsletter editor 1998-2000; reviewer: IS.

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