Mike Fortun
SBSG 3308
mike.fortun@uci.edu
Key Research Area
Anthropology of the life and environmental sciences, data cultures
Professional Bio
Mike Fortun is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine. His research has centered on the history and anthropology of the life sciences, in particular the contemporary science, culture, and political economy of genomics. He is currently part of an effort to build digital humanities infrastructure that supports collaborative ethnographic research and data sharing in anthropology (PECE, the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography). PECE serves as research infrastructure for a project on air quality science, environmental health, and governance in 11 cities in the U.S., China, and India. He is also a co-chair of the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group and the Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (rd-alliance.org), an international organization of researchers working to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data
Education
PhD 1993, History of Science, Harvard University