Joseph Dumit, Ph.D.

Joseph Dumit, Ph.D, is Director of the program in Science and Technology Studies and an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at UC Davis. His research focuses on the anthropology of science, technology, medicine, and media. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Princeton University Press, 2004); and the coeditor of Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (with Gary L. Downey; SAR Press, 1997), Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (with Robbie Davis-Floyd; Routledge, 1998), and Biomedicine as Culture (with Regula Burri; Routledge, 2007). He was associate editor of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry for 10 years, and before coming to UC Davis, was an associate professor at MIT in the Program in Science, Technology & Society.

His Psychology Today blog is Promiscuous Facts.