Today I welcome medical anthropologist Emma Kowal, author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia.
Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of STS and Indigenous studies and have recently focused on the many iterations and resonances of ‘Indigenous DNA’. She has authored over 100 publications including the monograph Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia and the collection Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. Her current book project is entitled Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia.