About

Kathryn Goldfarb is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago obtained in 2012. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on how social relationships impact embodied experience, the intersections between public policy and well-being, and the co-production of scientific knowledge and subjective experiences, including narrative creation. Her first book, 'Fragile Kinships: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan,' explores how social inclusion and exclusion influence holistic well-being through longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with individuals connected to the Japanese child welfare system. This work examines how kinship ideologies relate to Japanese national and cultural identity, shaping notions of normalcy within global discourses on human development, child rights, and social welfare, using frameworks from kinship theory, medical anthropology, semiotics, feminist science studies, and queer theory. Her current projects include 'Knowing Air,' which ethnographically studies how environmental factors like wildfire activity and the COVID-19 pandemic influence engagement with air quality data, emphasizing environmental justice and equity outside industrial pollution zones, particularly in Boulder County, Colorado. She collaborates with community organizations, industry, and government, including the Louisville Historical Museum and NOAA, on projects related to wildfire experiences and air quality. Goldfarb has also contributed extensively to academic literature on kinship, child welfare, and embodied relationality, and her work emphasizes the visceral, embodied experience of social relationships and their influence on well-being.

Research topics

• Biology
• Ecology
• Microbiology
• Cell biology
• Botany

Frequent coauthors

• Eoin Brodie

  University of California, Berkeley

  25 shared

• Susan V. Lynch

  University of California, San Francisco

  8 shared

• Ulaş Karaöz

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  8 shared

• Clark A. Santee

  University of California, San Francisco

  8 shared

• Weidong Kong

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  7 shared

• Thomas R. Cech

  University of Colorado Boulder

  7 shared

• Filipa Godoy‐Vitorino

  University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

  5 shared

• Yvette K. Wild

  University of California, San Francisco

  4 shared

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