Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at the Australian National University. She is a cultural anthropologist who has previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health settings. Her research interests include Indigenous-state relations and settler colonialism, racism and anti-racism, science and genomics. Current research projects include the impact of genomic technologies on experiences of indigeneity and the role of human biology in the founding of Indigenous studies in the 1960s. She is the author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia (Berghahn, 2015).
