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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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Wicked Science

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.

anthropology, graduate education, transdisciplinarity, wicked problems, wicked science

Plants that Keep the Bad Vibes Away

New research article is out in a special issue on plant-human communication in the journal Ethnos.

bad vibes, human-plan relations, phyto-communicability, plant communication and sensing, research article, urban Amazonia

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.

Ethnobiology Letters, humanure, metabolic rift, night soil

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

American Anthropologist, hiring networks, inequality in academia, social network analysis, US academic anthropology

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

academic anthropology, hiring networks, social inequality, social network analysis

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

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

Amazonia, ethnobotany, home gardens, non-human agency, race, religion, research article, weeds

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

Brazil, excrement, flush toilet, night soil, waste studies, water and sanitation

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

ethnobiology, living artifacts, publication, trail trees

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

agrobiodiversity, Amazonia, Amazonian Dark Earth, biodiversity conservation

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