MIT Professor Heather Paxson is a cultural anthropologist interested in everyday ethics, especially having to do with family and food. The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (University of California Press, 2013), based on fieldwork centered in Vermont, Wisconsin, and California, explores the liveliness of artisanal cheese and the livelihoods of those who make it. At MIT, Heather teaches courses on food, craft practice, ethnographic research, and families. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a B.A. from Haverford College, and is the author of Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece (University of California Press, 2004).
