Anthropology Department’s Adriana Petryna Receives New Millennium Book Award
March 2007
Adriana Petryna, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the New Millennium Book Award for her book Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Her research explores bioethics, human-subjects research, commercial science and evolving regulatory regimes of protection in the United States and former Soviet Union.
The New Millennium Book Award was established by the Society for Medical Anthropology to recognize and promote excellence in medical anthropology. It is given to the author whose work is judged to be the most significant and potentially influential contribution to medical anthropology. Petryna’s book is considered by the society to be “truly path-breaking, based on extensive, risky and courageous research among survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.”