Bacteria Farming Zine (DOPE2024)
The DOPE Conference is back in person this year and I’ve put together a little zine (“Bacteria Farmers”) for a session on “Speculating on an Multispecies Urban Future”:…
Tag: biosolids
10 Ways that Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All
You can find this short essay (or academic listicle?!?) in the latest issue of Anthropology News, which explores research on waste. Kawa (2022) Anthropology News – 10 waysDownload
A Story of Us
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of Us, a podcast that is sponsored by the…
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 this public talk I’ll be giving at Whetstone…
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 of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…