| Emma Kowal | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Occupation: | anthropologist, physician, public health researcher, professor |
| Awards: | Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research |
| Education: | University of Melbourne (BA, MBBS, PhD) |
| Discipline: | medical anthropology, public health |
| Workplaces: | Deakin University |
Emma Kowal 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]
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]
Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles.[10]