Kim Fortun
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Kim Fortun | |
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 Kim Fortun in 2016 | |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Years active | 1993-present |
| Title | Professor |
| Board member of | Society for Social Studies of Science |
| Spouse | Mike Fortun |
| Awards | Sharon Stephens Prize (2003) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rice University[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist, science and technology studies scholar |
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| Main interests | Environmental risk and disaster |
| Notable works | Advocacy After Bhopal |
| Website | http://kfortun.org |
Kim Fortun, an American anthropologist, is a professor in University of California Irvine's department of anthropology.[2] Her interests extend also to science and technology studies with a focus on environmental risk and disaster. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the president of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).[3]
In 2003, Fortun's first book, Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders, was awarded the Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society.[4] From 2005 to 2010, she edited the Journal of Cultural Anthropology.[5] Fortun currently helps lead multiple collaborative projects, including The Asthma Files and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).[6] She is also a founding member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Disaster Studies.[7]
