Professor Michael Fischer

Professor of Anthropological Sciences
Email
m.d.fischer@kent.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)1227 823144
Professor Michael Fischer

About

Michael D. Fischer is a Professor of Anthropological Sciences who has worked mainly in the Punjab and Swat in Pakistan, and the Cook Islands. His major interests are in the representation and structure of indigenous knowledge, cultural informatics and the interrelationships between ideation and the material contexts within which ideation is expressed.
Michael has received grants from the ESRC, AHRB, SERC, MRC, HEFCE, JISC, Leverhulme and Nuffield on topics including the ethnography of Pakistan and the Cook Islands, formal analysis, multi-media databases, coding methods, virtual reality, performance and large-scale networked databases, historical anthropology and textual markup.

Teaching

Programme convenor of MA in Social Anthropology & Computing and teaching the following modules:
Undergraduate
  • SE307: Thinkers and Theories (convenor)
  • SE308: Skills for Anthropology and Conservation
  • SE587: Ethnographies 2
  • SE594: Anthropology and Development
  • SE595: Social Computing
Postgraduate
  • SE806: Research Methods in Social Anthropology 2
  • SE861: The Ethnography of Central Asian Societies
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