Michael Fisher is an STS scholar who graduated from John Hopkins with and Bachelors in Liberal Arts Geography and then went on to do his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Anthropology. Since then he has held teaching and research positions at Chicago University, Harvard University (Social Anthropology and Middle East Studies), Rice University, where he became the Director Center of Cultural Studies before going on to MIT to become Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. His sites for field study included African, Asian and the Middle Eastern countries. He has authored articles which examine a variety of subjects/themes: Technoscientific Infrasturctures and Narratives, Science Ethnic Groups and fights for representation, Public Spheres in China and Iran, Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine, Third World Poetics, Biosciences and Biotechnologies, and Islam . He teaches courses on ethical and legal dimensions of the electronic frontier, biopolitics and economics, and global medicine.
