Michael Fischer

writer, professor, MIT

Michael Fischer teaches anthropology at MIT. His books include *Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution* (1980), *Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition* (1990), *Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry* (2004), and *Anthropological Futures* (2009).