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May 4, 2022 • Daniel DiPrinzio
In efforts to advance scholarship on race, racism, and social justice in the past as well as the contemporary world, the directors of the Center for Antiracist Scholarship, Advocacy, and Action (CASAA) at Arcadia University unveiled a new initiative—the CASAA Microgrants Program—in March 2022. Part...
Dec 16, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
By Josephine Mueller ’21 The LOVE Pilot Program held its last teach-in session of the semester on Dec. 2. “What more can we do? Facing Race and Racism on Campus,” was done in collaboration with the Just Act Ensemble as a living lab that included audience participation during the performances by...
Dec 7, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
By Josephine Mueller ’21 At the LOVE Pilot Program’s second teach-in on “Bias, Microaggressions, Racial Abuse: How Can We Do Better/Heal?”, held on Nov. 10, panelists Dr. Favian Guertin-Martin, associate professor of Criminal Justice; Dr. Prash Naidu, assistant professor of Historical and...
Political Ecology; Environmental anthropology; Air/olfactory Pollution and Extractive Industries; Phenomenology; Sensory studies; Semiotics; Geospatial environmental mapping; Asia Pacific.
Home Country
Singapore
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2019
PhD, Major in Sociocultural Anthropology
University of Chicago 2011
Author • 2018
Article, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Prash Naidu (PhD, 2019, University of Michigan) is an environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on the embodied, sensory experience of environmental change and extractive development in Timor-Leste and the Pacific Rim. Broadly, he examines landscape transformations and atmospheric pollution caused by natural resource extraction and traces their impacts on people and ecosystems. He has published "Sensing Change, Changing Place: Sensory Politics Along the Tasi Mane, Timor-Leste" in The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 19(5): 467-483, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2018.1513552
Naidu's research uses community-driven, citizen-science methods (GIS-GPS technologies, pollution diaries, and citizen sensing) to map olfactory and sonic pollution. His goal is to use data from citizen-science projects to intervene in the global endeavor to document evanescent forms of industrial pollution and inform future pollution regulation policies. He is also beginning a new multi-sited, ethnographic project that examines sand mining, the global commons, and climate change in the Pacific Rim.