Selected Works
2025 Stawkowski, Magdalena. Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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.
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.
2020 Stawkowski, Magdalena. 2020. "Forgotten Ground Zeros: Local Populations Exposed to Radiation from Former
Nuclear Test Sites." Danish Institute for International Studies Policy Brief.
Winner of the 2023 Society for Medical Anthropology Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE)
Policy Brief Award
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.
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.