Emma Kowal | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Occupation(s) | anthropologist, physician, public health researcher, professor |
Awards | Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Melbourne (BA, MBBS, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | medical anthropology,public health |
Institutions | Deakin University |
Emma Kowal FASSA is an Australian cultural and medical anthropologist,physician and scholar of science and technology studies. She is most well known for her books Trapped in the Gap:Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, [1] and the co-edited volumes of Force,Movement,Intensity:The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences [2] (with Ghassan Hage),Cryopolitics:Frozen Life in a Melting World [3] (with Joanna Radin).
She received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and a Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy of science from University of Melbourne in 2000 and worked for a few years as a physician and a public health professional in the Northern Territory of Australia. She returned to the University of Melbourne to receive her PhD in public health anthropology in 2007. She is currently a professor in Anthropology at Deakin University and Convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network. [4]
In 2014,she received the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. [5] She was the deputy director for the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at Australian National University between 2013 and 2017. [6] In 2019 she was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. [7] Since 2021 Emma Kowal is president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. [8] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2022. [9]
Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles. [10]
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