Nick Kawa

Nick Kawa

Nick Kawa

Associate Professor | Department of Anthropology | College of Arts and Sciences

kawa.5@osu.edu

(614) 292-2391

4030 Smith Laboratory
174. W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH
43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental anthropology

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida (2011)
  • M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida (2008)
  • B.A., Anthropology and Spanish, University of Arizona (2002)

Nick Kawa is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. His research interests include environmental anthropology, human-plant relations, agrobiodiversity, anthropogenic soils, historical ecology, political ecology, community-based conservation, climate change, and waste management.

Dr. Kawa's recent publications include Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests (University of Texas Press, 2016); “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shape Amazonian Home Gardens”, Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment, (2016); “Household Agrobiodiversity Management of Amazonian Dark Earths, Oxisols, and Floodplain Soils on the Lower Madeira River, Brazil”, Human Ecology (2015); “A Deep History of Tobacco in Lowland South America”, In Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America; Andrew Russell and Elizabeth Rahman, eds. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015). 

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