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Pardis is very excited to return to her native California to teach Medical Anthropology and Social Anthropology at Pomona College, after receiving her Masters in International Affairs (MIA), Master of Arts and PhD from Columbia University in New York City. She is a trained medical anthropologist with a special interest in socio-cultural aspects of health and healing, gender, sexuality, and advocacy within anthropology. Her dissertation (2006) was on the intersection of sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran, and is now in process of becoming a book entitled Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution. She has done research in Iran, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Egypt and New York City. She has worked on projects involving questions of sexual rights and human rights, assisted reproductive technologies and emerging reproductive health changes, and a project on burlesque artists in New York City.
When not doing anthropology or questioning it, Pardis enjoys trapeze, yoga and the theater as well as re-discovering California, her childhood home.
B.A. Diplomacy and World Affairs; Minor in French, Occidental College
Masters of International Affairs, Columbia University
Masters of Arts, Columbia University
PhD, Columbia University