Michael M.J. Fischer

Who is 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, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the U.S. on social change and religion; 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, social anthropology and philosophy at the L.S.E., anthropology at the University of Chicago.