Emma Kowal

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).

Emma Kowal

FASSA
NationalityAustralian
Occupationanthropologist, physician, public health researcher, professor
AwardsPaul Bourke Award for Early Career Research
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Melbourne (BA, MBBS, PhD)
Academic work
Disciplinemedical anthropology, public health
InstitutionsDeakin University

Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Publications

Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles.[8]

References
  1. Emma., Kowal (2015). Trapped in the gap : doing good in indigenous Australia. New York. ISBN 9781782385998. OCLC 896862152.
  2. Ghassan., Hage (2011). Force, movement, intensity. Kowal, Emma. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522860818. OCLC 721261932.
  3. Cryopolitics : frozen life in a melting world. Radin, Joanna,, Kowal, Emma. Cambridge, MA. ISBN 9780262338691. OCLC 979560265.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. University, Deakin. "Emma Kowal". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  5. "Awards ยป ASSA". www.assa.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  6. NCIG, Director; jcsmr.ncig@anu.edu.au (2013-12-10). "Professor Emma Kowal". NCIG. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  7. "Academy Fellow: Professor Emma Kowal FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  8. "Emma Kowal". Google Scholar. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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