Pardis Mahdavi is an American scholar and former president of University of La Verne.
Mahdavi's research covers in labor, migration, gender, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health, specializing in the context of shifting political and global structures.
[2] She is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and has published numerous groundbreaking works focusing on different issues affecting the Middle East.
[3] Her second book is titled Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai and was published in May 2011 by Stanford University Press.
Mahdavi investigates Dubai as it has long been accused of being an epicenter of human trafficking.