Michael MJ Fischer

Room	E51-296B
Phone	617-253-2564
Email	mfischer@mit.edu
website	http://www.mit.edu/~21fms/faculty/Fischer.html

Professor Fischer received his B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University (Liberal Arts/Geography, 1967) and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (Anthropology, 1973). He taught at the University of Chicago (1972-73), Harvard University (1973-1981) and Rice University (1981-1992). At Rice he served as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies (1986-1992). From 1996 to 2000 he was the Director of the MIT STS Program. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil (1982), a Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fellow in India (1985), and a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution (1990).

He is the author of Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution; Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (with George Marcus); and Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (with Mehdi Abedi). He teaches courses on social theory, ethnography, ethnographic/narrative film, social and ethical issues in bioscience and biotechnology, and law and ethics on the electronic frontier.