Paul Rabinow

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Paul Rabinow
Portrait of Paul M. Rabinow, made in 2002 by Saâd A. Tazi, at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, during his Blaise Pascal professorship.
Born	21 June 1944 Florida, U.S.
Died	6 April 2021(2021-04-06) (aged 76) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Fields	Cultural anthropology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	A history of power in a Moroccan village. (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Clifford Geertz
Doctoral students	João Biehl, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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Paul M. Rabinow (June 21, 1944 – April 6, 2021)^[1] was a professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He worked with and wrote extensively about the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

His major works include Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977 and 2007), Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (1983) (with Hubert Dreyfus), The Foucault Reader (1984), French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment (1989), Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (1993), Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (1996), Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment (2003), and Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary (2007).