Kim Fortun, an American anthropologist, is a professor at University of California Irvine's department of anthropology.

[2] Her interests extend also to science and technology studies with a focus on environmental risk and disaster.

From 2017 to 2019, she has served as the president of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

[3] In 2003, Fortun's first book, Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders, was awarded the Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society.

[5] Fortun currently helps lead multiple collaborative projects, including The Asthma Files and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).