Prof. Faubion received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley in 1990. His research areas include modern and ancient Greece, culture and society of the US, anthropological and social theory, ethics, religion and violence, and kinship in contemporary society.
Faubion is known as an expert on the thought and career of Michel Foucault. He has edited several collections, including The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquires and two volumes of Essential Works of Michel Foucault. He has contributed a biography of Foucault to Encyclopedia Britannica. He is currently working on another book, tentatively titled What Becomes a Subject: Fieldwork in Ethics, that critically develops Michael Foucault's analytics of the ethical domain through a series of bioethnographic portraits.
Faubion is also the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today and Modern Greek Lessons. He presented his paper, “On the Theoretical Erasure of the Religious in the Political”, at an invited panel on theologies of the secular convened at the 105th meetings of the American Anthropological Association. He also acted as chair of the panel “Concept Work, Collaboration and Pedagogy: Anthropological Methods and the Problematic of Emergence” at the meeting.
Faubion has served as Chair and Director of Graduate Studies of Department of Anthropology since 2005. He is the Chair of the Graduate Council as well.
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