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Prof. Michael M J Fischer

Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies
Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS)

Primary DLC

Program in Science, Technology, and Society

MIT Room: E51-296B
(617) 253-2564

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Communities of Engineers and Scientists
Social and Technological Change
South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Islamic World
Ethnographic and Cultural Study of Modern Science and Technology, in Particular, Fine-Grained Analyses of Scientists' Autobiographies
Anthropological Theory and Cultural Studies, Middle East Studies
Modern Science and Technology

Recent Work

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