Emma Kowal
Emma Kowal | |
|---|---|
| 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, and the co-edited volumes of Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences (with Ghassan Hage), Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (with Joanna Radin).