MICHAEL M.J. FISCHER

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 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 2005-06 Xmas, summers: science and ethics
Indonesia, Iran, Turkey 2007, science & technology in the Muslim world