Mohammad H TamdgidiMohammad H. Tamdgidi, a retired associate professor of sociology at UMass Boston, has also taught sociology at SUNY-Oneonta and SUNY-Binghamton. He holds doctoral and masters degrees in sociology in conjunction with a graduate certificate in Middle Estern studies from Binghamton University (SUNY) and a B.A. in architecture from U.C. Berkeley. He is the founding editor of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) which has served since 2002 to frame his research, teaching, and publishing initiatives. Tamdgidi specializes in the sociology of self-knowledge, human architecture, and utopystics-three overlapping theoretical, methodological and applied fields of inquiry he initiated in his doctoral studies in 2002 and has since pursued. His research, teaching, and publishing practices have been framed by an interest in understanding how personal self-knowledges of multiple selves and singular world-historical social structures constitute one another. This line of inquiry has itself been a result of his long-standing interest in understanding the contributions and the underlying causes of failure of the world's utopian, mystical, and scientific traditions in bringing about a just global society. Read More Read Less