MICHAEL H. AGAR

Mike interwove teaching and entertaining to the delight of his students. You could easily listen to him for long periods of time and not get bored. He had a sense of humor which made interacting with him, whether in the classroom or at a party, engaging -- therefore you learned, or you left thinking about things to report back another day. After years of naturally filtering out the people who you miss from the people who made you see the world differently, Mike is still graciously walks...

Mike was an indelible mentor, friend and older brother who was always inspired me and was there for me when I had some choices to make. At a Chinese dinner with Mike and Nick Kozel before a Langston Hughes jazz night in DC, Mike hooked me up with my forever colleague and student of Mike's, Linda Kaljee, that led to a few decades of international research on vaccines, believable it or not, on vaccine hesitancy, before it ever became a household word. There's nobody in the world I rather...

Mike even in death you continue to teach me the true reach of friendship and now the depth of sorrow. The happy days are gone but well remembered.

My sincere condolences to family and other friends.

Ellen, so sorry to hear of Mike's passing; so glad for the love you shared.

Michael certainly fulfilled our high school yearbook proficy of being the 'most likely to succeed'. He was obviously a bright and talented man who was also down to earth. It was great see him at our 50th reunion 4 years ago. Ruth Ann Todd (Luvermore, CA)

I first met Mike in the 5th grade at St. Michael's School in Livermore and was so impressed with his intelligence.
We never maintained contact following high school but did reconnect at our 50 year class reunion. Of course, he remained the brainiac I remembered. So sorry to hear about his passing. Heartfelt condolences to his family & friends. You will be missed at our 55th. Rest in peace, fellow student & friend.

I met Mike as a recent PhD grad [from Univ of CO, 1997, in Nursing] at the International Institute for Qualitative Methods [IIQM], up in Alberta, Canada. For a decade or so he was a faculty presenter on ethnography & complexity theory at the annual IIQM methods workshops held at Banff. He became a mentor and friend to me there, and consulted on every grant application I wrote. His whimsical, accessible way of inspiring amateur ethnographers like me was beyond compare. He &...

I remember Mike fondly from our stint together at Stanford in the Grove House. He reached out to those of us who were new to the campus and his intellectual curiosity and rough and ready insights taught us that intellectual endeavors, when pursued in their own right, nevertheless could serve ordinary men and women. Mike was one of a kind and I miss him very much.