Michael M J Fischer

http://web.mit.edu/anthropology

Professor; affiliate appointment with Science, Technology and Society Program| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Anthropology

http://web.mit.edu/anthropology

Professor; affiliate appointment with Science, Technology and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Anthropology

E-mail	mfischer@mit.edu
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Knowledge / Expertise

Interest/Specialty Areas

Social anthropology, history and social change, science and technology studies, religion and social change

Biography

Michael Fischer trained in geography and philosophy at Johns Hopkins, social anthropology and philosophy at the London School of Economics, anthropology at the University of Chicago. Before joining the MIT faculty, he served as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice. He conducts fieldwork in the Caribbean, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia on the anthropology of biosciences, media circuits, and emergent forms of life.

Phone	(617) 452-2837
Email	anthro@mit.edu