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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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Privy2

Learn about how sanitation waste and plastic discards are transformed into agricultural and architectural resources on OSU’s main campus.

demonstration garden, discard studies, Privy2, urban agriculture, waste

Show & Tell: Teaching Anthropology through Sensorial Art

Tired of assigning the same old final papers and projects? Try a sensorial art exhibition…

course assignments, environmental anthropology, object oriented ontology, Ohio State University, sensorial art, show & tell, undergraduate education

Amazonia and the Ontological Turn: A Dialogue

In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the…

Amazonia, dialógo, etnografia Amazônica, ontological turn, UFAM, virada ontológica

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…

A Story of Us, agriculture, Amazonian Dark Earth, biosolids, podcast, urban Amazonia, waste

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…

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

Zines!

Why assign final papers for a history of theory class when you can make zines instead?

anthropological theory, anthropology, course assignments, higher education, zines

Wakanda University at #AmAnth2018

Elizabeth Chin, @nidhisrathore, @allergyPhD, @dorinnekondo, Chibundo Egwuatu & others at #WakandaUniversity gave us an alternative vision of what the space…

#AAA, #AmAnth2018, Afrofuturism, Elizabeth Chin, Lab of Speculative Ethnology, Wakanda University

Urban Amazonian Show & Tell at #AmAnth2018

At this year’s AAA meeting, I’ll be presenting a paper on a panel titled “The Cultural Work of Aesthetics: Brazilian…

#AmAnth2018, Brazil, ethnography, everyday aesthetics, urban Amazonia

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…

anthropology, biosolids, Ohio, public lecture, shit studies, Whetstone Library

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…

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

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