Michael Fisch | Center for East Asian Studies

Michael Fisch Areas of Study:

Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization, Committee on Japanese Studies, Department of Anthropology

Office: 5836 S Greenwood Ave
Haskell M136
Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 702-2128 Email Interests:

Technology/nature/culture; cybernetic ontologies; infrastructure and design; Japan anthropology; biomimicry; experimental ecologies; urban theory.

Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, Interim Chair, Committee on Japanese Studies, CEAS

Professor Fisch's research focuses on the effects of technology, nature, and culture on Japanese society. He is currently developing a project that explores the emergence of what he identifies as “experimental ecologies” that work to contest, recast, and re-conceive disaster infrastructure design in post-3.11 Japan.