CURRICULUM VITAE MICHAEL M.J.

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DEPARTMENT: STS & Anthropology DATE OF BIRTH: January 11, 1946 CITIZENSHIP: United States EDUCATION INSTITUTION The Johns Hopkins University The London School of Economics The University of Chicago The University of Chicago DEGREE B.A. -M.A. Ph.D. DATE 1967 1965-66 1969 1973

TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS: Zorastrian Iran Between Myth and Praxis FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND GRANTS Phi Beta Kappa Delta Phi Alpha Woodrow Wilson Fellow NIMH Predoctoral Fellow NIMH Research Grant Roy D. Albert Prize for M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago S.S.R.C. Research Grant Fulbright Lectureship, University of Brasilia U.S.- Indo Subcommission Senior Scholarship Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Senior Fellow, Smithsonian Institution [Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship Residency Site Grant for the Rice Center for Cultural Studies, for 3 years Renewal of the above institutional grant for 2 years Carnegie Fellow American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize for Emergent Forms of Life & the Anthropological Voice. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2010-12 20071996-2000 199819931987-1992 1988-1992 1981-88 1981-1992 1982-83 1977-81 1975-76 Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities, MIT Director, Program in Science, Technology & Society, M.I.T Lecturer, Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Prof. of Anthropology & Science and Technology Studies, M.I.T. Director, Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University Professor of Anthropology, Rice University Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University Director Graduate Studies, Rice University Anthropology Department Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, Rice University Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Research specialist, University of Chicago Islam & Social Change Project 1967 1966 (Hon.) 1967 1967-72 1969-72 1969 1974 1982 1984-85 1988-89 1990 1989 1991] 2005 2005

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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology & Middle East Studies, Harvard University Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Philosophical Anthropology,University of Chicago Research Assistant, University of Chicago Family Study (Jamaica)

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1967 1965, 64, 63 1962 Researcher, Engineer Agency for Resources Inventories, U.S. Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. Clerk, National Institutes of Health: NINDB, OD, NIMH Translator (under contract to ) U.S. Weather Bureau (German)

FIELDWORK Jamaica: Iran: summer 1968 (kinship, religion, stratification) 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 1994-2003 December and summers (computer scientists and entrepreneurs; molecular biologists and physicists; filmmakers) Israel/Palestine 2004-05 Xmas, summers: environmental issues in Wadi Khalil-Wadi Beersheva Iran 2005-07 Xmas, summers: science and ethics Indonesia, Iran, Turkey 2007 science & technology in the Muslim world Singapore January 2009, June 2010, Dec 2010-Jan,2011, Jun-Jul 2011, Dec 2011Jan 2012: Biopolis

PUBLICATIONS Books 2009 Anthropological Futures. Duke U Press. c. 400 pp Portuguese (Brazil) translation (5 of 8 chapters), 2011. 2004 Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. Duke. 475pp. Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice. Duke..477pp. 2nd Edition. Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. University of Wisconsin Press. (with new introduction). 2nd Edition. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in

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the Human Sciences (with George Marcus). University of Chicago Press. 228pp. (with new introduction). Translations in Chinese (2004), Croatian (2004); Korean (2006). Translation into Hungarian of chapter 6 in Helikon (2005: 1-2). 1990 Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues between Tradition and Postmodernity (with Mehdi Abedi). University of Wisconsin Press. 564 pp. 1986 Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human George Marcus). University of Chicago Press. 205 pp. Translations in Japanese, Chinese (Taiwan & Beijing), Spanish, Italian. Sciences (with

1980 Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. Harvard University Press. 314 pp.

Edited Books 2010 with B. Good, S. Willen, and M.J.D. Good. A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities. Blackwell.

Chapters in Books 2012 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 Lively Biotech and Translational Research in K. Sunder Rajan, ed. Lively Capital. Duke UP Dr. Folkmans Decalogue and Network Analysis. in Good, B., M. Fischer, S. Willen, B. Good, ed. Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities. Blackwell. Body Marks In Ivan Crozier, ed. Cultural History of the Body, vol. 6. Berg Publishers.. Emergent Forms of Life in Corporate Arenas. in Melissa Cefklin, ed. Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research In and Of Corporations. New York: Berghahn. Renewable Ethnography in G. Marcus and J. Faubion, ed. Fieldwork is Not What It Used to Be: Anthropologys Culture of Method in Transition. Cornell UP. Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life, In Cabell King and David Albertson, ed. Without Nature: A New Condition for Theology. Fordham University Press. To Live With What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel. in Mary-Jo DeVecchio Good, Sandra T. Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good, ed.: Postcolonial Disorders. University of California Press. To Live With What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Returns to Subjectivities. in Joao Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, ed. Subjectivities: Ethnographic Investigations. University of California Press. The Geoid. In Sherry Turkle, ed. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. MIT Press. "Dialogue with Meron Benveniste and Salim Tamari." in City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism , edited by Philip Misselwitz and Tim Reiniets. Birkhauser. Culture and Cultural Analysis, Sciences, Technology and Society, Persian Poesis. in Mike Featherstone, ed. Problematizing Global Knowledge. Sage. Deep Play, Violence, and Social Reconstruction, in R.A. Shweder and B. Good, ed. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues. Univ. of Chicago Press. Husayn ibn Ali Talib and Hasan ibn Ali Talib in Martin, Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan Reference "Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema." In Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber, ed. Religion and Media. Stanford University Press.

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"Before Going Digital/Double Digit/Y2000, A Retrospective of Late Editions." Late Editions, 8. Zeroing In on the Year 2000. ed. G. Marcus. U. Chicago Press. "Calling the Future(s) with Ethnographic and Historiographic Legacy Disciplines: STS @ the Turn []000 .mit.edu" Late Editions, 8. "Zeroing In on the Year 2000. University of Chicago Press. "Calling the Futures(s)", abbreviated version. In R. Reid and S. Traweek, ed. Culture + Science. Routledge. "With a Hammer, A Gouge and a Wood Block": The Work of Art and Medicine in the Age of Social Re-Traumatization: The Texas Wood-Cut Art of Dr. Eric Avery." In G. Marcus, ed. Para-Sites (Late Editions 7). University of Chicago Press "If Derrida is the Gomez-Pena of Philosophy, What are the Genres of Social Science? Just Gaming: The Y2K Computer Bug and Other Uncertainties -- A Critical Simulation Game." In G. Marcus, ed. Para-Sites (Late Editions 7) University of Chicago Press. "Emergent Forms of Life: Anthropologies of Late or Post Modernities." Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 28:455-78. "Worlding Cyberspace: Towards an Ethnography in Time, Space and Theory" In G. Marcus, ed. Critical Anthropology Now. School for American Research. "Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: Postcommunist Polish & Postrevolutionary Iranian Film." in Dimitra Gefou-Madianou, ed., Recent Trends in Anthropological Theory and Ethnography. Athens: Ellinika Grammata. (in Greek) "Functionalism," "Structuralism," "Interpretive Anthropology," "Critical Anthropology," "Postmodern Anthropology." In Thomas J. Barfield, ed., Dictionary of Anthropology. London: Blackwell's. "Filming Poland: the Ethnographic (Documentary, Narrative) Films of Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz." in G. Marcus, ed. Cultural Producers in Perilous States (LateEditions, Volume 4). University of Chicago Press. "Critical Anthropology," (with G. Marcus) in David Levinsdon and Melvin Ember, ed. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York: Henry Holt & Col. "Qum," and "Bazaar" in John Esposito, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Oxford University Press. "Eye(I)ing the Sciences and their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers):InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology." in G. Marcus, ed. Technoscientific Imaginaries. ( Late Editions, Volume II). Univ. of Chicago Press. "Film as Ethnography and Cultural Critique in the Late Twentieth Century." in Diane Carson and Lester Friedman, ed. Shared Differences: Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy. University of Illinois Press. "Starting Over: How, What, and for Whom Does One Write about Refugees? The Poetics and Politics of Refugee Film as Ethnographic Access in a Media-Saturated World." in E. Valentine Daniel and John Chr. Knudsen, ed. Mistrusting Refugees. University of California Press. "Autobiographical Voices (1,2,3) and Mosaic Memory: Experimental Sondage in the (Post) Modern World." In Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, & Gerald Peters, ed.. Autobiography and Postmodernism. University of Massachussets Press. "Six to Eight Characters in Search of Armenian Civil Society amidst the Carnivalization of History." in G. Marcus, ed. Perilous States (Late Editions, I), U. Chicago Press. "Working through the Other: The Jewish, Spanish, Turkish, Iranian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and German Unconscious of Polish Culture; or, One Hand Clapping: Dialogue, Silences, and the Mourning of Polish Romanticism." in G. Marcus, ed. Perilous States (Late Editions, I). Univ. of Chicago Press. "An Iranian Village Boyhood." (with Mehdi Abedi). in Edmund Burke III, ed. Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Univ. of California Press. "Five Frames for Understanding the Iranian Revolution." In Kenneth Kulman, ed. Critical Moments in Religious History. Mercer Press. "Reading for the Ethnography" in D.W. Cohen and E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo. Burying S.M. Heinemann.

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"Qur'anic Dialogues: The Poetics and Politics of Islam for Muslims and for Us." in Tullio Maranhao, ed., The Interpretation of Dialogue. University of Chicago Press. "Sacred Circles: Iranian (Zoroastrian and Shi'ite Muslim) Feasting and Pilgrimage Circuits" in J.S. Scott and P. Simpson-Housley, eds., Sacred Spaces and Profane Places. Greenwood Press "Legal Postulates in Flux: Justice, Wit & Hierarchy in Iran." in D. Dwyer, ed., Law and Politics in the Middle East. J.F.Bergin. "Repetitions in the Revolution." In Shi'ism, Resistance, Revolution. Martin Kramer, ed. Westwood Press. "Ethnicity and the Postmodern Arts of Memory." In Writing Culture: the Politicsand Poetics of Ethnography. J. Clifford and G. Marcus, eds. University of California Press. (with Mehdi Abedi). "Foreword" to A Clarification of Questions by Ayatollah S. Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeni, E.T.J. Boruderdi. Westview Press. "Imam Khomeini: Four Ways of Understanding." in John Esposito, ed., Voices of Islamic Resurgence. Oxford University Press. `"Supporting the Evolution of Modern Civil Society from a Traditional Base." In Raymond Gastil, ed., Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties . Greenwood Press. "Competing Ideologies and Social Structures in the Persian Gulf." In A.J. Cottrell, ed., The Persian Gulf States. Johns Hopkins. "Introduction" to E. Bacon, Central Asians Under Russian Rule. Cornell. "On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women." In L.Beck and N. Keddie, eds. Women in the Muslim World. Harvard University Press. "Persian Society: Transition & Strain." In H. Amirsadeghi & R.W. Ferrier, ed. Twentieth Century Iran. London: Heinemann.

Articles in Refereed Journals 2011. A Polyphonic Nine Canto Singspiel after 25 years of Writing Culture Anthropologica. 2011. In the Science Zone II: the Fore, Papua New Guinea, and the Fight for Representation. East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) 5:1-17. 2010. The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran. Cultural Anthropology. 25(3): 497543 2009. Renewable Ethnography: Ethnographic Pebbles and Labyrinths in the Way of Theory. (expanded version; English on my website) Horizontes Antropolgicos (Brazil, in Portuguese), special issue on Ethnography, ed. Cornelia Eckert 2009. Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres At Risk Ally With Public Spheres Yet to be Achieved? Cultural Politics 5(1):27-62. 2008 Open Access, Anthropology and the Future of Circulation. A discussion with Michael M.J. Fischer, Christopher M. Kelty, Kimberly Christen, Jason Baird Jackson, Michael F. Brown, Alex "Rex" Golub and Tom Boellstorff. Cultural Anthropology 2007 Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology Cultural Anthropology, 22(3): 539-614. 2007 Ptolemaic Jouissance and the Anthropology of Kinship: a Commentary on Ager The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Anthropologia. 2007 Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems. Cultural Anthropology, 22(1): 1-65. 2006 Changing Palestine-Israel Ecologies: Narratives of Water, Land, Conflict and Political Economy, Then, Now and Life to Come. Cultural Politics. Summer 2006 Introduction to Culture at Large with George Lipsitz: Rethinking American Culture.

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Cultural Anthropology. August. Culture and Cultural Analysis in Theory,Culture and Society, 23(2-3):340-44 Persian Poesis in TCS Science, Technology and Society, TCS Technoscientific Intrastructures and Emergent Forms of Life: A Commentary. American Anthropologist, vol. 107(1). In the Science Zone: the Yanamamo and the fight for representation. Anthropology Today. 17(4): 9-14; 17(5):10-13. Ethnographic Critique and Technoscientific Narratives: The Old Mole, Ethical Plateaux, and the Governance of Emergent Biosocial Polities. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. Raising Questions about Rouch" The American Anthropologist. 99(1):140-43. "Is the Public Sphere Unspeakable in Chinese?" (with Leo Lee and Wang Hui). Public Culture. "Thinking a Public Sphere in Arabic and Persian." (with Mehdi Abedi). Public Culture, 6(1): 2l9-30. "Is there a Difference between Public Culture 1789 and 1989? -- A Reply to Greg Urban's Kantianism." Public Culture. "Reflections on Debating Muslims, A Collaboration in the Humanities and the Social Sciences." Knowledge. 14(1): 124-31. "Anthropology as Cultural Critique - Inserts for the 1990s: Cultural Studies of Science, Visual-Virtual Realities, and Post-Trauma Polities," Cultural Anthropology 6(4):525-37. "Uses of Life Histories," Anthropology & Humanism Quarterly, 16(1):24-27. "Okiek Portraits," American Anthropologist, March; reprinted in Passages, Apr. "Qur'anic Dialogues," (abbreviated). Translation Perspectives (State University of New York) "Bombay Talkies, the Word & the World: Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses." Cultural Anthropology, 5(2). "Museums and Festivals," Cultural Anthropology, Spring 1989. "Scientific Theory and Critical Hermeneutics." Cultural Anthropology. 3(1). "Aestheticized Emotions and Critical Hermeneutics" Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Special Issue: Illness and Healing in the Middle East. M.J. Good, B. Good and M. Fischer, eds. "Da Antropologia Interpretativa a Antropologia Critica." Anuario Antropologico 83. 55-72. "Ima Khomeini: quatro niveis de compreensao (biografia, imagem, politica,gnose)." Religiao e Sociedade. 11(1):21-48. "Towards a Third World Poetics: Seeing Through Short Stories & Film in the Iranian Culture Area." Knowledge & Society. 5:171-241. "Islam and the Revolt of the Petit Bourgeoisie." Daedalus. 111(1): 101-25. "Portrait of a Molla: the Autobiography and Bildungsreman of Aqha Quchani (1875-1943). Persica 10:223-57. "Becoming Mullah: Reflections on Iranian Clerics in a Revolutionary Age." Iranian Studies. 13(1-4): 83-117. "Interpretive Anthropology." Reviews in Anthropology. 4(4): 391-404. "Value Assertion & Stratification: Religion and Marriage in Rural Jamaica." Caribbean Studies. 14(1-2).

Other Publications 2011 Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution In Iran (shortened from Cultural Ant hropology 2010) in Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, ed. The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Irans Future. N ew York: Melville House. Building Scenarios for Iran. Tehran Bureau. January. Response to Shehadas Studying the Trial [Islamic law courts in Gaza] Association

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for Political and Legal Anthropology [PoLAR] http://www.aaanet.org/sections/apla/spillover_shehada_fischer.html Capturing Emergent Forms: Response to Vincent Crapanzano. Anthropos 102: 101-103. Changing Ecologies: Narratives of Water, Land, Conflict, and Political Economy, Then and Now, and Life to Come In Stuart Schoenfield, ed. Palestinian and Israeli Environmental Narratives: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Association with the Middle East Environmental Futures Project. Toronto: York U. Center for International & Security Studies, pp. 13-27. Persian Minatures: I. Bahs (Debate) in Qum; II. Simulation in Tehran. New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) Insights, Vol. 1: 14-24. Contribution to The Research Object and the Objectivity of the Researcher. Forum for Anthropology and Culture (St. Petersburg, Russia & Oxford England) Introduction (with Mary-Jo Good) to Issue on Middle East, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28(3): 251-53. Obituary: Lily Kay Isis. (with S. Jansen and C. Weiner). Deep Play and Social Responsibility in Vienna Keynote Address. Newsletter of the European Association for the Social Study of Science and Technology (EASST). "The New Media and Human Rights" FDL-AP Quarterly (Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific Quarterly) [Web site publication] "Cutting Globalization Down to Size: (How) Do Localization and Culture Matter?" Proceedings, US-Arab Relatinos & The Challenge of Globalization. Casablanca Conference. Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East. "Response to Pnina Werbner's 'Allegories of Imperfection: Magic, Hermeneutics and Passion in The Satanic Verses." Current Anthropology, February, 37(Supplement):71-73. "Commentary: Science in Anthropology" American Anthropology Newsletter, March, 37(3):48-49, 52; April, May, September. "Quibbles with the 'Balkan View': response to E.A. Hammel's 'Science and Humanism in Anthropology." American Anthropology Newsletter 36(8):50,52. "South Asia -- Rewriting the Language of Rights." The State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. Cultural Survival. (Beacon Press). "Islam and Postmodernity." New Perspectives Quarterly. "Orientalizing America: Beginnings and Middle Passages." Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) "Iranian Revolutionary Posters," Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) "From Interpretive to Critical Anthropologies," Trabalhos de Ciencias Socias. Serie Antropologia Social No. 34. (Fundacao Universidade de Brasilia). "Islam and Islamic Justice," Middle East Executive Reports. January. "Protest & Revolution in Iran." Harvard International Review. 1(2):1-6. "In Defense of Ayesha: Women in Iran." New Society.44(818): 537-38, June 8. "97,98,99...A Gentle Critique," "95,96,97...A Not So Gentle Addition." (Undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins & the LSE), The Vector. 21(2).

Interview Subject 2008 Global Aspects of Iranian Anthropology: A Conversation with Michael Fischer, Mazyar Lotfalian. The Journal of Iranian Anthropology Quarterly. Tehran University. Number 4. Spring 2008. (in Persian; interview conducted July 07 Anthropology Now July Library supplment. Athens daily Eleutherotypia (in Greek). English version in Neni Panourgia. 2002. Conversations in Hermeneutic Anthropology. Anthropological Theory 2(3): 349-52.

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Reviews 2010 2006 2006 Oppenheim, Robert. Kyongju Things: Assembling Places. Michigan. EASTS. N. Fazeli. Politics of Culture in Iran: Anthropology, Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century. International Journal of Middle East Studies. M. Strathern. Commons + Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability, and the Flow of Knowledge. American Anthropologist 108(2): 440-41. Biosciences and Biotechnologies as Deep Play and Ethical Plateaus (review of M. Lock, A. Young, A. Cambrosio, ed., Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies. American Anthropologist 106(2):389-91. T.J. Misa, P Brey, & A. Feenberg, ed. Modernity and Technology. Anthropological Quartery. R.T. Antoun. Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements. International Journal of Middle East Studies. May. M. Lock, A. Young, A. Cambrosio, ed. Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies. American Anthropologist. D. Haraway. Modest Witness@Second Millenium.FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse. American Anthropolist. B. Knauft. Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology. AJS. A. Ahmed. Islam and Postmodernism. Man. C. Delaney, The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society. Choice. C. von Furer-Haimendorf, Life among Indian Tribes: The Autobiography of an Anthropologist, Choice, April. M. Caffrey, Ruth Benedict: Stranger in this Land. Choice: November. R. Fox, Gandhi. Choice. Ingold, Tim. The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations. Choice: January. Nettler, Ronald. Past Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist's View of the Jews. Choice: March. Munson, Henry. Islam and Revolution in the Middle East. Choice, October. Ackerman, Robert. J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work. Choice, July-August. Grace Goodell, Elementary Forms of Political Life. Economy and Cultural Change. Sharma, Ursula. Women's work, class, and the urban household: a study of Shimla, North India. Choice: February. Jacobson, J. Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan. Choice: March. Kenny, M. The Passion of Ansel Bourne: multiple personality in American Culture. Choice: May. N. Charlesworth. Peasants and Imperial Rule: agriculture and agrarian society in the Bombay presidency, 1850-1935. Choice: March. F. Marglin. Wives of the God-King: the rituals of the devadasis of Puri. Choice. G. Possehl. Kulli, an exploration of ancient civilization in Asia. Choice: October. Sorush Irfani. Revolutionary Iran. International Journal of Middle East Studies. Martin Southwold. Buddhism in Life. Choice: July-August. J. Finn, ed. Global Economics & Religion. Choice: March. Nancy & Richard Newell. The Struggle For Afghanistan. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 18(1). N. Keddie, ed. Religion & Politics in Iran. The Muslim World. 73(2). V. Turner, ed. Celebration. Choice: January. Loring Danforth. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. Choice: May. Mahmud Taliqani. Society & Economics in Islam. Choice: June.

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Research Reports 1980 The Social Impact of Development on Ethnic Minorities: Iran, Afghanistan, the Sudan, Brazil (with D. Maybury-Lewis, T.J. Barfield, J. Clay, R. Huntington, B. Pajackowski). Cambridge: Cultural Survival. 199pp. The Qum Report. (Chicago: mimeo, now incorporated into Iran, (Harvard 1980). A Report to the US-Mexico Joint Border Development Commission. (with others). Washington, D.C.: Engineer Agency for Resources Inventories.

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In Press and preparation Behaves Like a Rooster and Cries Like a Dog: Nightmares, Depression, Psychiatry, & the Rise of Iranian Psychiatric Selves (with Orkideh Behrouzan). in D. Hinton et al., ed. Psychiatry of Trauma The Anthropology of Scientific Moralities Didier Fassin, ed. The Anthropology of Morality. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Pardoxes, Social Contradictions, Cultural Oscillations in Felicity Aulino, Miriam Goheen, and S.J. Tambiah, ed. Radical Egalitarianism. (Fordham) Anthropological Futures in Kroeber Journal (Berkeley)

Philo-sophia & Anthropo-logia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran (Kleinman, Das, Jackson, and Singh, ed.) review of Latour, Bruno. 2010 On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. in Technology and Culture Biopolis: Asian Science in the Global Circuitry (under review at EASTS)

Working Papers and Unpublished Manuscripts Implicated, Caught in Between, Communicating with the Mildly Cognitively Impaired: Toward Generative Anthropological Figures -- A Response to J.Biehl Social Text special issue edited by Arvind Rajagopal, Technologies of Perception. Globalization and China: Challenging Cultural Boundaries Institute for East Asian Studies, Berkeley. (Papers of 2001 Conference at Tufts, Program in Global Leadership) Mapping the Culture/Cultural Impact of the Multinational Corporation B. Mazlish, ed. "Cosmic Rays, Satellites, and Malarial Parasites: Tracking Science and Technology in India for what it can tell us about Science and Technology in the Middle East. In Samir Khalaf et al. Volume on Science and Technology in the Middle East. (AUB). "Reshaping Three Cultures of Oil." Prepared for the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, November 15, 1997. Baker Center Working Paper. "Three Cultures of Oil" Prepared for the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Sept. 28, 1996. Baker Center Working Paper. "Otobiotopographies: Anthropology in New Worlds of Science and Technology" "Otobiotopographies II: Descended from Galileo and Erasmus" "Figuring (Indian) Ads in Translocal Spaces: Towards a Transnational Anthropology of Advertising." "On Being Raised in the Middle East: Child development, Socialization, & the Socialization of Affect." "Persian Passion Playing." (with M.J. DelVecchio Good and Byron Good) "Female Voice Registers in Iran."

Edited Book Series (with Joe Dumit) Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices (Duke University Press) 1. Juris, Jeffrey. 2008. Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization. 2. Kelty, Christopher. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software 3. Fischer, M.M.J.F. 2009. Anthropological Futures. 4. Taussig, Karen-Sue. 2009 Ordinary Genomes: Genetic Counseling in the Netherlands 5. Rheinberger, Hans-Jrg. 2010. Epistemology of the Concrete: Studies in the History of Modern Biology 6. Ong, Aihwa and Nancy Chen, ed. Asian Biotechnology 7. Sanal, Aslihan. New Organs Within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy . 8. Choy, Timothy. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. 9. Brotherton, P. Sean. 2012. Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba. 10. Sunder Rajan, ed. 2012. Lively Capitall: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets. 11. Dumit, J. 2012. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define our Health 12 Poloock, Anne. 2012. Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupation with Difference. 13. Murphey, Michelle. 2012. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience. 14. Prentice, Rachel. 2012. Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy

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(iv) Synergistic Activities Directorship (4 years) of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Inaugural Directorship (6 years) of the Rice Center for Cultural Studies Cross-institutional teaching Harvard Medical School and MIT STS Program Preparation of proposals for cross-university graduate student exchanges Harvard Kennedy School and MIT, STS; Harvard Anthropology and MIT, STS (v) Collaboration and Other Affiliations (a) Collaborators and Co-Editors: Duke Book series Experimental Futures: Joe Dumit. NB: previous close collaboration and co-authors include George Marcus (Rice University) and Mehdi Abedi (Rice University) in the 1980s; Co-teaching: Byron and Mary-Jo Good (Harvard Medical School, Social Medicine); Hal Abelson and Danny Weitzner (MIT computer science and World Wide Web Consortium). (b) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors Doctoral Committee: -Raymond T. Smith (chair), Prof. of Anthropology, University of Chicago (now emeritus) -David Schneider, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago (later University of California at Santa Cruz), now deceased. -Nur Yalman, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, (later Harvard University), now emeritus -Milton Singer, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago (diseased) -Marvin Zonis, Professor of Political Science and Human Development, University of Chicago, now professor emeritus Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Postdoctoral employment on the University of Chicago Islam and Social Change Project -Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Chicago (diseased) -Leonard Binder, Prof. of Political Science, University of Chicago (now UCLA) c) Thesis Advisor and Post-Graduate Sponsor PhD Advisees (MIT) -Callison, Candis. 2010. More Information is Not the Problem: Spinning Climate Change, Vernaculars, and Emergent Forms of Life. -Behrouzan, Orkideh. 2010 Prozak Diaries: Post-Rupture Subjectivities and Psychiatric Futures -Ozkun, Esra. 2007. Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America. -Wick, Livia. 2006. Making Lives Under Closure: Birth and Medicine in Palestines Waiting Zones. Assistant Professor, Anthropology, American University of Beirut. -Kuo, Wen-Hua. 2005. Japan and Taiwan in the Wake of Bioglobalization:Drugs, Race, and Standards. Assistant Prof. Social Medicine, National Yang Ming University (Taipei) -Sanal, Aslihan 2005. Flesh Yours, Bones Mine: the Making of the Biomedical Body in Turkey. Independent researcher, Paris. -Sunder Rajan, Kaushik. 2002. Sunder Rajan, Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine. -Schwarz, Heinrich. 2002. Techno-Territories: The Spatial, Technological and Social Reorganization of Office Work. Asst Prof. Communications, University of Colorado, Boulder -Kelty, Christopher 2000.. Scale and Convention: Programmed Language in a Regulated America. Assoc. Prof., UCLA -Landecker, Hannah. 2000. Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture & Cellular Life in 20th century Biomedicine. Assoc. Prof. UCLA -Mnookin, Jennifer. 1999. Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise, and Technologies of

Knowledge in the American Courtroom. Prof. of Law, UCLA Ph.D. Advisees (current) Krishnan, Shekhar urban technologies (Mumbai) Ozden, Canay energy markets Committee Member -Gunel, Gokche Mazdar, Energy Innovation in the UAE (Cornell), 2012 -Wylie, Sara Anne. endocrine disrupters and citizen websites in the Colorado oil and gas patch, 2011. -Roosth, Hannah Sophia. 2010. Crafting Life: A Sensory Ethnography of Frabricated Biologies -Greenslit, Nathan. 2007. Pharmaceutical Relations: Intersections of Illness, Pharmaceutical Fantasy & Capital in the Age of Direct-To-Consumer Consulting firm Marketing. (chair: Dumit). 2007. -Pradhan, Rajesh. When the Saints Go Marching In: sadhus in Indian politics . 2008. -Srinivas, Tulasi. (Boston U.) Entrepreneurship in Middle Class Temples of Bangalore. -Naficy, Nahal (Rice University). Iranian NGOs in Washington, D.C. 2006. -Saka, Erkan (Rice University). Turkish Journalism and the EU Accession. 2008. Advisees at Rice -Abedi, Mehdi, (thesis on Iran) -Cefkin, Melissa, Ethnographer, IBM (thesis on Turkey) -Fortun, Kim, Assoc. Prof., RPI (thesis on Bhopal) -Gregorian, Stella, (thesis on Armenia) -Lahsen, Myanna, (thesis on climate modeling in U.S; - committee member) -Lotfalian, Mazyar, (thesis on Muslim scientists in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and the U.S.) Committee Member at Harvard -Abu Lughod, Lila, (thesis on beduin in Egypt) -Barfield, Tom. (thesis on the Arabs a nomadic group in northeastern Afghanistan) -Goldensohn, Max. (thesis on development in Mauretania and Congo) -Urry, William. (coal mine conflict mediation)