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Joseph Dumit

Room
 E51-296D
Phone
 617-253-8781
Email
 dumit@mit.edu
website
 http://web.mit.edu/dumit/www/homestart.html

Professor Dumit received his B.A. from Rice University (Anthropology and Philosophy, 1989) and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness, 1995). He was an NIMH Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (1995-1997), and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dibner Institute (1997-1998). He is the co-editor of Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies with Gary Lee Downey (1997), and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots with Robbie Davis-Floyd (1998). He is the associate editor of the journal Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry. Professor Dumit is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).