Eva-Maria Knoll is a senior researcher. Her research interests focus on medical anthropology at the intersections with health, life sciences, mobility, island life and tourism in the Indian Ocean World, with special expertise for the Maldives and their history. In 2011 she graduated from the University of Vienna with a doctoral thesis in socio-cultural anthropology on Reproductive Tourism. Currently she studies natural and man-made crisis in the Indian Ocean World and the biosocial impact of inherited blood disorders. She thereby investigates with a comparative ethnographic approach – in close cooperation with local clinics and local as well as international patient advocacy organizations alike – dimensions of remoteness and health equity in the Republic of Maldives and Austria. She has co-edited seven books and special issues, and some of her main publications have come out in high profile academic formats, such as Social Science & Medicine, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Island Studies Journal, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, Current History, or the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies.
Eva-Maria Knoll and Malgorzata Rajtar (eds.) Rare Diseases, Global Health, and Social Sciences: Counterbalancing Biomedical Reductionism. Special Issue, Social Science & Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QGTSNMJ7Q
Rajtar, Malgorzata and Eva-Maria Knoll. “Anthropology, Global Health, and Rare Diseases.” In: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, edited by T.B. Masvawure and E.E. Foley, 353–365. New York / Oxon: Routledge, 2024. DOI: 10.4324/9781003284345
Eva-Maria Knoll. “In Motion: Genes, Identities and Mediated Lives in Dispersed Small-Scale Contexts.” In: Anthropology in Motion: Encounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from Austria, ed. by Andre Gingrich, 64–91. The RAI Country Series, Volume Four. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2021. https://therai.org.uk/publications/rai-country-series
Eva-Maria Knoll. “The ‘Other’ Within: Striving for Health Equity in the Maldives.” In: Special Issue ‘Representing Islands – Producing Islandness: Rethinking identities, mobilities, and relations in island research, guest edited by Sarah Nimführ and Greca N. Meloni. Island Studies Journal 16, no. 2 (2021): 18–38. https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.177
Campbell, Gwyn and Eva-Maria Knoll, eds. 2020. Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030362638
Eva-Maria Knoll. “Inherited Without History? Maldive Fever and its Aftermath.” In Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World, edited by Gwyn Campbell and Eva-Maria Knoll, 255-284. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030362638
Eva-Maria Knoll. “The Maldives as an Indian Ocean Crossroads.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York: Oxford University Press. Article published October 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.327
Eva-Maria Knoll and Pamela Burger, eds. 2012. Camels in Asia and North Africa. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance. Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie Bd. 18 / Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse Bd. 451, Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften DOI.org/10.1553/0x002ad683
