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).

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] 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]

Publications

Scholia has a profile for Emma Kowal (Q56979991).

Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles.[10]

References

  1. ^ Emma., Kowal (2015). Trapped in the gap : doing good in indigenous Australia. New York. ISBN 9781782385998. OCLC 896862152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ University, Deakin. "Emma Kowal". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Awards » ASSA". www.assa.edu.au. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  6. ^ NCIG, Director; jcsmr.ncig@anu.edu.au (10 December 2013). "Professor Emma Kowal". NCIG. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Emma Kowal FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Current Officers and Council". Society for Social Studies of Science. 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021.
  9. ^ Shanahan, Rachel (14 October 2022). "Professor Emma Kowal FASSA FAHMS". Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Emma Kowal". Google Scholar. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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