Professor Hoda Mahmoudi holds The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining the University faculty, she served as the coordinator of the Research Department at the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, she 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 has numerous publications, including co-editing Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022), co-editing Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace (Routledge, 2024).

1. A Woman of her Time 2. A Woman of Faith 3. Educator, Artist, Physician 4. A New Believer 5. A New Faith 6. In the Presence of 'Abdu'l-Bahá 7. The Road to Persia 8. At Home in Tehran 9. A School for Girls 10. Murder in Tehran 11. Strong of Heart 12. A Final Season

This volume examines the life of the remarkable woman, Susan Moody, and her travels to Iran in the early 20th century during seismic changes in the world.