| Kim Fortun | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Discipline: | Anthropologist, science and technology studies scholar |
| Spouse: | Mike Fortun |
| Alma Mater: | Rice University[1] |
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| Boards: | Society for Social Studies of Science |
| Period: | 1993-present |
| Awards: | Sharon Stephens Prize (2003) |
| Professor | |
| Main Interests: | Environmental risk and disaster |
| Notable Works: | Advocacy After Bhopal |
| Website: | http://kfortun.org |
Kim Fortun, an American anthropologist, is a professor at 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 has 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]