Hoda Mahmoudi has held The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, Professor Mahmoudi collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace. Professor Mahmoudi’s research utilizes an integrative approach to peace and focuses on five main themes, Structural Racism and the Root Cause of Prejudice, the Empowerment of Women and Peace, Global Governance and Leadership, Human Nature, and Overcoming Challenges in the Globalization of the Environment.
Before joining the University of Maryland faculty, Professor Mahmoudi served as the coordinator of the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, Dr. Mahmoudi was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, where she was also a faculty member in the Department of Sociology.
Professor Mahmoudi’s most recent book is, Dr. Susan I. Moody’s Travels to Iran, 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey (Routledge, 2024). She is also co-author of A World Without War (Bahá’í Publishing, 2020), co-editor of Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace (Forthcoming, Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Infrastructure, Wellbeing, and the Measurement of Happiness (Routledge, 2022), co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and co-editor of Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022). Professor Mahmoudi is also co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights (Emerald, 2019), of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), and of Children and Globalization; Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).
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