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'Paul Rabinow' is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. ^[1] He has taught at Berkeley since 1978. ^[2]

Contents

Biography

Early life

Marriage and children

Career, Thought and Research

Philosophical and/or political views

Notes

Works

Selected Works

Letters

Awards

''References''

See also

External links

Biography

Paul Rabinow received his B.A.(1965), M.A.(1967), and Ph.D.(1970) in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (1965-66). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1980); was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1987); taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1986) as well as the École Normale Supérieure (1997), was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Iceland (1999). He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation, Professional Development Fellowships (for training in molecular biology). He is co-founder of the Berkeley Program in French Cultural Studies. ^[2]

Early life

Marriage and children

Career, Thought and Research

Rabinow's work has centered on modernity as a problem: for those seeking to live with its diverse forms and for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. This work has ranged from study of the descendants of a Moroccan saint coping with the changes wrought by colonial and post-colonial regimes, to the wide array of knowledges and power relations entailed in the great assemblage of social planning in France, to his study of molecular biology and genomics. Rabinow now calls this approach an anthropology of reason. Rabinow seeks to answer his self-imposed question: Who are the humans at issue and what knowledges constitute them and help them to understand themselves and their environments?
His current research centers on developments in post-genomics and molecular diagnostics. Rabinow seeks to invent an analytic framework to understand the issues of bio-politics and bio-security. A related research interest is the contemporary moral terrain with special attention to "affect." ^[1]
Professor Rabinow has also been active in disciplinary developments relating to science and technology studies as editor of the series In/Formation at Princeton University Press and as co-editor of the series Life, Science, and Society at Cambridge University Press. His current work is on synthetic biology. Professor Rabinow is Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory. ^[5]

Philosophical and/or political views

Notes

Professor Rabinow is arguably most famous for his work with Michel Foucault during Foucault's time at Berkeley.
see http://foucault.info/foucault/interview.html
Professor Rabinow's current research centers on the new field of synthetic biology. ^[6]

Works

Selected Works

1975. Symbolic Domination: Cultural Form and Historical Change in Morocco, University of Chicago Press.
1977. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, University of California Press. [French, Spanish, Japanese].
1978. Interpretive Social Science: A Reader, (with W. Sullivan) University of California Press.
1983. Michel Foucault, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (with Hubert Dreyfus) University of Chicago Press. (2nd edition). [French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.]
1984. The Foucault Reader, Pantheon Books.
1987. Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look (with W. Sullivan), University of California Press.
1989. French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, MIT Press. (University of Chicago Press, 1995). [French, 2004].
1996. Making PCR, A Story of Biotechnology, University of Chicago Press. [French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian].
1997. Essays in the Anthropology of Reason, Princeton University Press. [Portuguese 1999, German 2004].
1997. Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth, Vol. 1 of The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-
1984. Series editor and editor of Vol. 1. The New Press.
1999. French DNA, Trouble in Purgatory, University of Chicago Press. [French 2000].
2003. Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment, Princeton University Press. [German 2004].
2003. The Essential Foucault, (with Nikolas Rose), New York: The New Press.
2004. A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen, Princeton University Press.
2007. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Berkley, California. University of California Press.

Letters

Awards

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★ awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1998.
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★ received the University of Chicago Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award in 2000.
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★ awarded the visiting Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal at the École Normale Supérieure for 2001-2.
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★ named STICERD Distinguished Visiting Professor- BIOS Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics (2004).

''References''

1. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/rabinow.html
2. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/cvs/rabinow.cv.2005.doc
3. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/cvs/rabinow.cv.2005.doc
4. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/rabinow.html
5. http://anthropos-lab.net/network/people/rabinow/
6. http://dannyreviews.com/h/Making_PCR.html

See also

★ autobiography

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External links

★ http://foucault.info/foucault/interview.html

★ http://www.anthropos-lab.net/index.html
Anthropology at Berkeley