The DOPE conference is back in person this year and I put together a new zine for it!
Category: waste studies
10 Ways that Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All
A listicle on the many uses of poop in the latest issue of Anthropology News.
Thinking with Soils
My latest research on the use of biosolids in the US is now available in the edited volume Thinking with Soils.
Ecologies of (Human) Waste
Check out my presentation for the 2020 Society for Cultural Anthropology virtual conference (#Distribute2020).
Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon
The edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon includes over 60 entries and it’s free! Check out my entry, simply titled “Shit.”
New Zine on the History of Sanitation
Our zine “Infrastructural Digest” is finally done. Download a free digital copy.
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.
Privy2
Learn about how sanitation waste and plastic discards are transformed into agricultural and architectural resources on OSU’s main campus.
A Story of Us Podcast
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of … More
What Happens When We Flush? Public Talk at Whetstone Library
If you want to learn about all the fascinating things central Ohio does with its so-called “human waste,” come to … More