Adriana Petryna

Adriana Petryna is Professor of Anthropology and director of the joint MD-PhD Program in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In her research and writing on nuclear aftermaths, biomedicine, and the climate emergency, she explores diversity in the socio-political natures of science, how populations are enrolled in experimental knowledge-productions, and what becomes of ethics and citizenship in that process. In addition to her co-edited volumes on critical global health, she is the author of the award-winning books, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton University Press 2002); When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects (Princeton University Press 2009); and Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change (Princeton University Press 2022).