Emma Kowal
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Emma Kowal | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | 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]
