Dr Henrietta Byrne
Dr Henrietta Byrne is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Henrietta's research is situated within science and technology studies (STS), medical anthropology, and sociology of health. She works on questions of knowledge production and evidence-making in health, particularly as related to settler colonial states and hierarchies of knowledge. Her research examines questions of health and wellbeing across the life-course and across generations, including the politics of epigenomics and intergenerational trauma in Indigenous health contexts, and the ongoing legacies of the British nuclear testing program in South Australia. She is currently working on a project on death, dying, and bereavement in contemporary Australia.
Science and Technology Studies
Medical Anthropology
Settler colonialism
Gender
Evidence-making practices
Scientific knowledge production
Society for Social Studies of Science
Australian Anthropological Society
Moran Award for History of Science Research, Australian Academy of Science (2021)
Publications
Book Chapters
- Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E. (2024). Intergenerational Trauma. In Pentecost, M., Keaney, J., Moll, T., Penkler, M. (Eds.), The Handbook of DOHaD and Society: Past, Present, and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Byrne, H. (2020). Dialysis in the desert: Blood, biomedical technologies, and transformation in Central Australia. In Alison Dundon and Richard Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect. Abingdon: Routledge.
Journals
- Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E. (2024). Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(1). [More Information]
- Byrne, H., Keaney, J. (2024). Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing. Science, Technology and Human Values. [More Information]
- Warin, M., Keaney, J., Kowal, E., Byrne, H. (2023). Circuits of Time: Enacting Postgenomics in Indigenous Australia. Body and Society, 29(2), 20-48. [More Information]
2024
- Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E. (2024). Intergenerational Trauma. In Pentecost, M., Keaney, J., Moll, T., Penkler, M. (Eds.), The Handbook of DOHaD and Society: Past, Present, and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E. (2024). Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(1). [More Information]
- Byrne, H., Keaney, J. (2024). Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing. Science, Technology and Human Values. [More Information]
2023
- Warin, M., Keaney, J., Kowal, E., Byrne, H. (2023). Circuits of Time: Enacting Postgenomics in Indigenous Australia. Body and Society, 29(2), 20-48. [More Information]
- Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E., Meloni, M., Gilbert, S., Craig, J., Rae, K., Wenitong, M., Brown, A. (2023). Epigenetic Science and Indigenous health: Key Issues and Considerations for Future Research. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 14(3), 1-24. [More Information]
2020
- Byrne, H. (2020). Dialysis in the desert: Blood, biomedical technologies, and transformation in Central Australia. In Alison Dundon and Richard Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect. Abingdon: Routledge.