Professor Thabiti Willis is exploring the intersections of the wards and the family ritual masks in Ota, Nigeria using GIS mapping. Faculty and staff involved in the project include Thabiti Willis (primary researcher), Austin Mason, Wei-Hsin Fu, Heather Tompkins, and Iris Jastram. DHAs Julia Moen and Maureen Kalkowski-Farrand previously worked on the project as well . Student researcher Jackie Culotta ’19 created the map, which can be viewed at the Mapping Masquerades website!