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] Kowal is a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee, and she is on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.^[10]

Publications

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Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles.^[11]

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