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He has done anthropological fieldwork in the Caribbean
(Jamaica), the Middle East (Iran), South Asia (India), and
the U.S.
He teaches courses on social theory, ethnography,
anthropology and film, social and ethical issues in the
biosciences and biotechnologies, law and ethics on the
electronic frontier. He has taught at the University of
Chicago, Harvard, and Rice before coming to MIT, and has
served as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at
Rice, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and
Society at MIT. He's been a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil, a
CIES Fellow in India, and a Senior Fellow at the
Smithsonian.
He is the author of Zoroastrian Iran Between Myth and
Praxis (PhD 1973); Iran: From Religious Dispute to
Revolution (1980), Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with
George Marcus, 1986, 2nd edition 1999), Debating Muslims
(with Mehdi Abedi, 1990), Emergent Forms of Life and the
Anthropological Voice (2003), and Mute Dreams, Blind Owls,
and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the
Transnational Circuitry (2004). |