Selected Works
2023 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “A Town that Fell Asleep: Malignant Infrastructures of Soviet-era Nuclear Ruins in Kazakhstan.” In Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Lina Marie Richards, eds., Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. (Available November 30)
2023 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “Manipulative Statecraft: The Disinformation Campaigns and Presidential Powers of Trump and Putin.” In Donna Goldstein and Kristen Drybread, eds., Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era. Abington: Routledge. Pp. 182-200.
2017 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “Life on an Atomic Collective: The Post-Soviet Retreat of the State in Rural Kazakhstan.” Études
Rurales. 200:196-219.
2017 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “Radiophobia Had to Be Reinvented.” Culture, Theory and Critique. 58(4):357-374.
2017 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “Everyday Radioactive Goods? Economic Development at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.” The Journal of
Asian Studies. 76(2):423-436.
2016 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “I am a Radioactive Mutant”: Emerging Biological Subjectivities at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test
Site.” American Ethnologist. 43(1):144-157. Winner of the 2017 Soyuz article prize, recognizing outstanding article
in post-socialist studies by junior scholar.
2016 Stawkowski, Magdalena. “The Continuing Danger of Semipalatinsk.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. October 6. Available here.
2015 Goldstein, Donna and Magdalena Stawkowski. “James V. Neel and Yuri E. Dubrova: Cold War Debates and the Genetic Effects of Low-Dose Radiation.” Journal of the History of Biology. 48(1):67-98.