Hoda Mahmoudi

Hoda Mahmoudi is an American academic and scholar, specializing in religion and peace studies. Since July 2012, she has held the Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland.

Biography According to Mahmoudi, she was born in Iran, and moved to Utah in the United States when she was ten years old. She attended the University of Utah, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Masters in Educational Psychology. She then completed a PhD in sociology, also at the University of Utah.

Early in her academic career, she served as vice-president and dean at Mount Olivet College. She was appointed to the Baha'i Chair for World Peace, an endowed chair established in 1993. Among other topics, she has written on the movement for women's rights in Iran.

Awards in 2021, she was awarded the Rev. Clark Lobenstine Interfaith Bridge Builder Award, given annually by the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington.

Works

Mahmoudi, Hoda and Steven Mintz, eds. Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2019). Mahmoudi, Hoda and Michael L. Penn, eds. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights Mahmoudi, Hoda and Rashawn Ray, eds. Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change.