Faculty & Staff

Valentine Moghadam

OFFICE LOCATION: 263 Holmes Hall
OFFICE PHONE: 617-373-6163
EMAIL: v.moghadam@neu.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE: V. Moghadam CV

OFFICE HOURS: By Appointment only

EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1986, The American University, Washington, D.C., Sociology (concentration in Development)

COURSES TAUGHT: Social Movements: Globalization and Transnational Social Movements; Political Economy: Sociological Perspectives; Sociology of Development; Gender, Development, Globalization; Women and Gender in the Middle East/North Africa

RESEARCH INTERESTS:Globalization; Development; Social movements and transnational activism; transnational feminist networks; political sociology of the Middle East and North Africa

PUBLICATIONS:
Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement.Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. (Second edition to appear in late 2012)

Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. (Second Printing 2005. Winner of APSA Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, 2006; honorable mention, ASA/PEWS best book award 2006)

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993. (A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1993-1994.) Also published by The American University of Cairo Press (1994). Third printing, 1996. Updated second edition 2003. Third edition to appear in 2013.

Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

EDITED BOOKS (Partial List):
Making Globalization Work for Women: the Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership (eds., Valentine M. Modhadam, Mary Margaret Fonow and Suzanne Franzway), SUNY Press, 2011.

From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (editor and contributor), Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Social Policy in the Middle East: Economic, Political and Gender Dynamics (co-editor with Massoud Karshenas). Palgrave and UNRISD, 2006.