Political Plasticity, Prof. Fathali Moghaddam, April 18, 2021
Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Since 2014 he has served as Editor-in-Chief, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (an APA journal).
Dr. Moghaddam was born in Iran, educated from an early age in England, and returned to Iran with the revolution in 1979. He was researching and teaching in Iran during the hostage taking crisis and the first three years of the Iran-Iraq War. After work for the United Nations, he researched and taught at McGill University, Canada, from 1984, before moving to Georgetown in 1990. He has published about 30 books and 300 papers, and received a number of prestigious academic awards.