| Kim Fortun | |
|---|---|
 Kim Fortun in 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Years active | 1993-present |
| Title | Professor |
| Board member of | Society for Social Studies of Science |
| Spouse | Mike Fortun |
| Awards | Sharon Stephens Prize (2003) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rice University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist, science and technology studies scholar |
| Institutions |
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| 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. 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).
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. From 2005 to 2010, she edited the Journal of Cultural Anthropology. Fortun currently helps lead multiple collaborative projects, including The Asthma Files and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).
Selected works
- Fortun, Kim (2001). Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 916106017. (Awarded the Sharon Stephens Prize, 2003).
- Fortun, Kim; Fortun, Mike, eds. (2010). Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1: Moorings, Vol 2: Modernities, Vol 3: Emergence, Vol 4: Engagements. Sage. OCLC 759926547.
References
- Fortun, Kim (July 2017). "Kim Fortun Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). kfortun.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- "Core Faculty | Anthropology | UCI Social Sciences". www.anthropology.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- "-- The Society | Society for Social Studies of Science". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- "Sharon Stephens Prize | American Ethnological Society". American Ethnological Society. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- "Kim Fortun/". kfortun.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- Fortun, Kim; Callahan, Brian; Costelloe-Kuehn, Brandon; Fidler, Brad; Kenner, Alison; Khandekar, Aalok; Morgan, Alli; Poirer, Lindsay; Fortun, Mike (2018-03-04). "Hosting the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography". HAU (Special Issue).
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