Deakin University congratulates Associate Professor Emma Kowal on receiving the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research.
The Academy of Social Sciences Australia (ASSA) honours Australians in the early part of their career who have achieved excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences from a shortlist of four outstanding early career researchers for the Panel Commendations for Early Career Research (one from each panel of the Academy) from whom will be selected one exceptional researcher to be the recipient of the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research.
Announcing the award, ASSA said,
Associate Professor Emma Kowal is an outstanding cultural and medical anthropologist. Her work as a doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health settings has powerfully shaped her anthropology of Indigenous Australians and their health, and of science and technology studies. Awarded an NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2007, and ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award in 2012, she has recently been appointed to Deakin University. Her 78 publications include a forthcoming monograph (Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia. Berghahn, New York, 2015). She is a catalytic colleague, Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network, editor of Postcolonial Studies, and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, ANU. She is an outstanding early career researcher with a national and global influence.