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Experience 8 sacred earthworks of the ancient Hopewell culture with this breathtaking book featuring 250+ images and fascinating insights on Native American history. "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Landscape Monuments of the Ancient Ohio Valley" by John Hancock, Marti Chaatsmith, Brad Lepper, and Bret Ruby will be published by Smithsonian Books April 21, 2026.

In Imagining Abolition: State Blues, Returning Artists Guild (RAG) artists explore the lived realities, emotional labor, and visionary power involved in creating a future beyond punishment and incarceration. This exhibition is grounded in the belief that abolition is not about tearing down for the sake of destruction—it is about building something better. It is about first imagining and then practicing systems rooted in care, accountability, and real safety for all people.

Monuments of the Ohio Valley exhibit focuses on a subset of twenty indigenous earthworks sites in the Ohio Valley to exemplify larger trends in how these sites have persisted and changed over time. Contemporary photographs of each earthwork help to capture the site in its current state. A unique modular table design allows visitors to engage the sites through touch. These case studies suggest the continuing meaning and value of these sites for those connected to them, as well as the challenges they face.

Poet Laura Da' Why Lazarus Exhibition at the Urban Arts Space, October 14 - November 15, 2025. The O

The Ohio State University at Newark invites applications for Director of the Newark Earthworks Center at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with tenure. We seek a scholar whose research employs Native American and Indigenous Studies methodologies, foregrounding Indigenous peoples’ intellectual traditions, histories, aesthetics, geographies, and other ways of knowing.

The Ohio State University classes highlighted below represent classes which exemplify or contain potential for research within the mission of the Newark Earthworks Center. This includes classes taught by our Faculty Oversight Committee members.

Please join the Department of English Visiting Writers Series for a reading and Q&A with novelist, Erika T. Wurth.