Stefan Helmreich

Stefan Helmreich is a professor of cultural anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web|url=https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/stefan-helmreich|title=Stefan Helmreich {{!}} MIT Anthropology|website=anthropology.mit.edu|access-date=2019-12-27}} He graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He is also the author (and co-author) of Silicon Second Nature,{{Cite book|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520208001/silicon-second-nature|title=Silicon Second Nature|date=August 2000 |isbn=9780520208001 |via=www.ucpress.edu|last1=Helmreich |first1=Stefan }} Alien Ocean,{{Cite book|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520250628/alien-ocean|title=Alien Ocean|date=January 2009 |isbn=9780520250628 |via=www.ucpress.edu|last1=Helmreich |first1=Stefan }} and Sounding the Limits of Life.{{Cite book|url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164809/sounding-the-limits-of-life|title=Sounding the Limits of Life|date=October 27, 2015|isbn=9780691164809 |via=press.princeton.edu|last1=Helmreich |first1=Stefan |last2=Roosth |first2=Sophia |last3=Friedner |first3=Michele Ilana }} In 2003 he released an album of experimental music entitled Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music on Seeland Records.{{Album citation|Album name=Xerophonics|Album code=mw0000022904|site=AMG}}{{cite journal |last1=Helmreich |first1=Stefan |last2=Downey |first2=Walker |title=Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music (Slight Return) |journal= Thresholds|date=May 2019 |volume=47 |pages=181–190 |doi=10.1162/thld_a_00686 |hdl=1721.1/130249 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130249 |language=en |issn=1091-711X|hdl-access=free }} He specializes in the anthropology of scientists - specifically oceanographers. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stefan-helmreich/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Stefan Helmreich|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-27}} Helmreich was also a Radcliffe Fellow starting in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/stefan-helmreich|title=Stefan Helmreich|date=2018-04-05|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|language=en|access-date=2019-12-27}} He is married to Heather Paxson a cultural anthropologist of food and family.{{Cite web|url=https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/heather-paxson|title=Heather Paxson {{!}} MIT Anthropology|website=anthropology.mit.edu|access-date=2019-12-27}}{{Cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/paxson/www/|title=Heather Paxson|website=web.mit.edu|access-date=2019-12-27}}