Emma Kowal

Emma Kowal FASSA FAHMS
Nationality	Australian
Occupation(s)	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).

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

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.
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.
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; [e-mail] (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.