A recent article I published with colleagues at Ohio State argues that to effectively tackle the so-called “wicked problems” facing humanity – from climate change to growing social inequality – a new kind of science is needed.
Category: research article
Plants that Keep the Bad Vibes Away
New research article is out in a special issue on plant-human communication in the journal Ethnos.
Night Soil and the Metabolic Rift
Curious about the use of human waste as an agricultural fertilizer? Read our article in the open access journal Ethnobiology Letters.
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities
This project has taken several years to come together, but I’m happy to share that “The Social Network of US … More
U.S. Academic Anthropology’s Hiring Network
A paper I authored with several colleagues titled “The Social Network of U.S. Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities” was recently … More
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
Religion, Race, and Weedy Plants
Yesterday I published a new research article titled “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shape Rural Amazonian … More
What Happens When We Flush?
I just completed revisions on an article titled “What Happens When We Flush?” that will appear in the September edition of … More
New Publication on Trail Trees
I just published an article titled Trail Trees: Living Artifacts (Vivifacts) of Eastern North America with my colleagues Brad Painter … More
Social and Environmental Factors Shaping Agrobiodiversity Management in Rural Amazonia
My latest research article was just published online with the journal Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: Smallholder farmers play … More
Nicholas C. Kawa 