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The Faculty Research Intitiative video series invites OSU Arts and Sciences scholars to summarize their work in order to promote engagement and break down disciplinary barriers. Two CLAS faculty affiliates were recently featured:
Environmental anthropologist Nick Kawa, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, studies how human culture mediates our relation to nature and the environment. Currently, he studies our relation to human excrement and examines ways in which we might come to see our waste as not being “waste” at all.
Chair of the Department of Theatre, Film, & Media Arts, E.J. Westlake is especially interested in the performance of collective identity--in plays, parades, and other public events such as pageants and politic demonstrations. She is currently writing a book on El Güegüense, the national dance-drama of Nicaragua. Focusing on the title character, a bilingual trickster, Westlake explores not only the role he plays within the traditional drama but also the various interpretations of and comparisons to El Güegüense that are common even today.
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