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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. We welcome applications from publicly engaged scholars with leadership and administrative experience whose research and teaching demonstrates accountability to Indigenous communities.

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.

6 p.m. - 8 p.m. WOSU Building, Ross Community Studio, The WOSU building is located at 1800 N. Pearl St. Free https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e8Tl6TQ1EEGGSQS RSVP Required The Center for Belonging and Social Change's annual Alternative Thanksgiving is an open alternative event to the Thanksgiving national holiday. This is an event where friends and allies will learn about history, traditions, and current issues of Native American and Indigenous peoples, with the goal to connect the campus community to the lived experiences of Native American and Indigenous peoples at Ohio State. This year's Alternative Thanksgiving will feature Dr. Daniel Rivers as our keynote speaker! Dr. Rivers is an associate professor in Ohio State's Department of History who specializes in Native American history. Dinner will be served.