Margaux Fisher is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Fisher teaches medical and environmental anthropology, and is a graduate student researcher with EcoGovLab, a social science collaborative focused on formulating and implementing next-generation environmental governance.

Fisher’s dissertation examines American public health ideologies–that is, the assumptions about public health, and how public services should operate–and considers their implications for advancing health equity. Her work includes the creation of a open educational resource that provides ethnographic case materials from her dissertation in collaboration with EcoGovLab community partners and scholars (see Interfacing Medical and Environmental Anthropology: Louisiana Case Materials).

In previous research, Fisher produced a masters thesis and digital exhibit focused on disaster capitalism and the subversive potential of creativity in post-Katrina New Orleans.  

Fisher has a MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Anthropology from Wheaton College (MA). 

Learn more about Margaux Fisher here.