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Nick Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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I'm a cultural and environmental anthropologist with interests in biodiversity management and smallholder agriculture in rural Amazonia. I've conducted research on agrobiodiversity management, anthropogenic soils, and community-based conservation. Currently, I'm also interested in the ways that farmers rely upon social networks, local ecological knowledge, and agrobiodiversity management to contend with the uncertainties of global climate change.

Maya Milpa Workshop at OSU’s Waterman Farm

Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as … More

corn, maize, milpa agriculture, Ohio State University, student farm, Waterman Farm

A Pretext for Plunder? Environmental Change and State-Led Redevelopment in the Peruvian Amazon

Gordon Ulmer, Sydney Silverstein, and I just published a short article (with lots of photos!) in the latest edition of … More

Amazon, anthropology, development studies, environmental change, Iquitos, Peru, urban Amazonia

Lee Hoffer on the Opioid Epidemic

Last week, the OSU Undergraduate Anthropology Club invited Lee Hoffer, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, to … More

ethnography, interview, Lee Hoffer, Ohio State, opioid epidemic, Undergraduate Anthropology Club

How Academic Hierarchy Shapes the Distribution of Precarity

Yesterday, Cultural Anthropology updated its recent forum on academic precarity with several additional essays, including one that I wrote about the … More

academia, academic hierarchy, academic hiring, academic precarity, Cultural Anthropology

First Trip Back Home – A Photo Essay

Amazônica just published a short interview and photo essay that I helped develop with friends while living in Iquitos, Peru in … More

Amazonia, antropologia, ensayo fotográfico, Iquitos, matsés, UNAP

Sedimentation

On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More

#AmAnth17, agriculture, anthropocene, Sedimentation

The Fermentological Turn

What does the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association have brewing up for this year’s meeting? Take … More

Anthropology News, fermentological turn, multi-yeasties ethnography, The Yeastie Boys

New Books in Anthropology Podcast

A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online … More

Amazonia, anthropocene, New Books in Anthropology, podcast

Margaret’s Mead: C&A’s First Zine

Last week, we printed off the first zine produced by the Culture & Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). … More

#AmAnth2017, Culture & Agriculture, cultures of fermentation, honey wine, mead, public anthropology, zine

The Pop Garden at Ohio State

One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside … More

biosolids, Columbus, Com-Til, Ohio State, Pop Garden, urban agriculture

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