Education
Valentine Moghadam first studied at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), where she "joined the Iranian student movement and became a left-wing activist". As an undergraduate, she majored in history and political science and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1978. Moghadam earned her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) in Sociology at American University in Washington, D.C.
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