Michael M. J. Fischer

Michael M. J. Fischer is an anthropologist who holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities and is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His doctoral thesis, Zoroastrian Iran Between Myth and Praxis, was completed at the University of Chicago in 1973. His books include Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution (1980), Debating Muslims (1990, with Mehdi Abedi), Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with George Marcus), Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (2003), Anthropological Futures (2009) and Anthropology in the Meantime (2018), and he co-edited A Reader in Medical Anthropology (2010).