Michael M. J. Fischer

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

He has done anthropological fieldwork in the Caribbean (Jamaica), the Middle East (Iran), South Asia (India), Southeast Asia (Singapore) and the U.S. on social change and religion (Protestants and Afro-Caribbean religions in Jamaica; Zoroastrians, Shi'ites, Baha'is, Jews in Iran; Jains and Parsis in India); on bazaars, merchants, craftsmen, and agriculture in Iran, Jamaica, India, and Antwerp; on revolutionary processes in Iran; on cinema in Poland, India, and Iran; on communities of scientists, engineers, and physicians in India, Iran, Singapore, and the U.S. He teaches courses on social theory, ethnography, anthropology and film, social and ethical issues in the biosciences and biotechnologies, law and ethics on the electronic frontier. He studied geography and philosophy at Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1967), social anthropology and philosophy at the L.S.E., anthropology at the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1973). He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Rice before moving to MIT, and served as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT. He's been a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil, a CIES Fellow in India, a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian, and a Visiting Research Professor at NUS/Asian Research Center in Singapore.

Works

• Zoroastrian Iran Between Myth and Praxis (PhD, Chicago, 1973)
• Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution (Harvard, 1980)
• Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with George Marcus, Chicago, 1986, 2nd edition 1999)
• Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (with Mehdi Abedi, Wisconsin 1990)
• Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (Duke, 2003)
• Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry (Duke, 2004)
• Anthropological Futures (Duke, 2009)
• A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities (Edited with Byron Good, Mary Jo DelVecchio Good, and Sarah Willen. Blackwell, 2010).

External links

• List of books from Fetchbook
• Faculty Bio from MIT Anthropology

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