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MICHAEL M.J. FISCHER | Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
| INSTITUTION |
DEGREE |
DATE |
| University
of Chicago |
Ph. D. |
1973 |
| University
of Chicago |
M.A. |
1969 |
| Johns Hopkins
University |
B.A. |
1967 |
| London School
of Economics |
|
1965-1966 |
TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:
Zorastrian Iran Between Myth and Praxis
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND GRANTS
| Phi Beta Kappa |
 |
1967 |
| Delta Phi Alpha |
|
1966 |
| Woodrow Wilson Fellow |
|
(Hon.) 1967 |
| NIMH Predoctoral Fellow |
|
1967-1972 |
| NIMH Research Grant |
|
1969-1972 |
| Roy D. Albert Prize for M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago |
|
1969 |
| S.S.R.C. Research Grant |
|
1974 |
| Fulbright Lectureship, University of Brasilia |
|
1982 |
| U.S.- Indo Subcommission Senior Scholarship |
|
1984-1985 |
| Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars |
|
1988-1989 |
| Senior Fellow, Smithsonian Institution |
|
1990 |
| Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship Residency Site Grant for
the Rice Center for Cultural Studies, for 3 years |
|
1989 |
| Renewal of the above institutional grant for 2 years |
|
1991 |
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| 2007- |
Andrew W. Professorship in the Humanities, MIT |
| 1996-2000 |
Director, Program in Science, Technology & Society, M.I.T |
| 1998-present |
Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
| 1993-present |
Professor of Anthropology & Science and Technology Studies,
M.I.T. |
| 1987-1992 |
Director, Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University |
| 1988-1992 |
Professor of Anthropology, Rice University |
| 1981-1988 |
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University |
| 1981-1992 |
Director Graduate Studies, Rice University Anthropology Department |
| 1982-1983 |
Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, Rice University |
| 1977-1981 |
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University |
| 1975-1976 |
Research specialist, University of Chicago Islam & Social
Change Project |
| 1973-1977 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology &
Middle East Studies, Harvard University |
| 1972-1973 |
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago |
| 1969 |
Teaching Assistant, Philosophical Anthropology,University
of Chicago |
| 1967 |
Research Assistant, University of Chicago Family
Study (Jamaica) |
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| 1967 |
|
Researcher, Engineer Agency for Resources Inventories, U.S.
Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. |
| 1965, 64, 63 |
|
Clerk, National Institutes of Health: NINDB, OD, NIMH |
| 1962 |
|
Translator (under contract to ) U.S. Weather Bureau (German) |
FIELDWORK
| Jamaica |
|
Summer 1968 (kinship, religion, stratification) |
| Iran |
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1969-71 (4 religious communities--Zoroastrian, Muslim, Jewish,
Baha'i in a provincial town: politics, economics, religion,
and social history) |
| Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad |
|
Summer 1973 (exploratory: East Indian Muslims, Baha'is) |
| Afghanistan, Iran |
|
Summer 1974 (bazaar economy) |
| Iran |
|
1975 (Muslim religious leaders: training, social mobility,
and social status) |
| Morocco, Israel, Egypt |
|
Summer 1979 (exploratory: Iranian Jewish psychic problems
in Israel, Azali Baha'is) |
| India |
|
1984-85 (business communities in Western India: Jains, Parsis) |
| India |
|
Summer 1990, Xmas break 1990 (Bombay film and advertising)
|
| Armenia |
|
1991 Xmas break (reconstruction of civil society after earthquake
and political trauma) |
| Poland |
|
August l993 (interviewing filmmaker and critic) |
| India |
|
1994-2002 December and summers (computer scientists and entrpreneurs; molecular biologists and physicists; filmakers) |
| Israel/Palestine |
|
2004-05 Xmas, summers: environmental issues in Wadi Khalil-Wadi |
| Iran |
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2005-06 Xmas, summers: science and ethics |
| Indonesia, Iran, Turkey |
|
2007, science & technology in the Muslim world |
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