Valentine Moghadam - Career

Career

As a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University, from 1985 to 1988, Dr. Moghadam taught several courses about sociology, women, and development. In the following year, under the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, Moghadam completed research as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In the fall of 1989 she also taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. As a Visiting Lecturer in the fall of 1990 and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the fall of 1992, Moghadam taught at the University of Helsinki. Then, from 1990 to 1995, she completed research in Helsinki, Finland at the WIDER Institute of the United Nations University as the Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development. From May 2004 to December 2006, Moghadam worked in Paris, France as the Chief of the Section for Gender Equality and Development in the Social and Human Services Sector of UNESCO. In January 2007, Moghadam was appointed Director of the College of Liberal Arts’ Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University, where she is also a professor in the Sociology Department. Most recently, she has accepted a position to become a professor of Sociology and the Director of the Department of International Affairs at Northeastern University.