Warwick Anderson

Warwick Anderson is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Anthropology and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. A co-conspirator in postcolonial studies of science,he has written extensively on science, race and colonialism; medicine and white masculinity; kuru, cannibalism and sorcerer scientists; and autoimmunity and tolerance of self. His current research is focused on disease ecology and planetary health. In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science. His recent publications include Spectacles of Waste (Polity 2024) and Medicine on a Larger Scale, co-edited with Anne Kveim Lie and Jeremy A. Greene (CUP 2025).