Selected Works

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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)

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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.

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2016      Stawkowski, Magdalena. “The Continuing Danger of Semipalatinsk.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. October 6. Available here.                  

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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.