2021-08-27
- We are always proud of our students and cherish every opportunity to share their achievements and activities! And, on the eve of first day of Fall 2021, they gave us such opportunity!
Anthro Club, the student organization of our undergraduate students made a remarkable and crowd-stopping...
News
2021-08-20 - Chris Fennell published a new book, "The Archaeology of Craft and Industry," in the “American Experience in Archaeological Perspective” book series by University Press of Florida, this summer. Archaeologists investigating sites of craft and industrial enterprise often puzzle over a domain of...- 2021-08-11 - Professor Jane Desmond recently published a public engagement article in Synapsis titled 'The Tiger in the Waiting Room: Addressing Moral Stress in Medicine.' The article addresses the -increasingly important in a post-pandemic world -topic, drawing from practicioners' experiences in human and...
2021-08-04 - A much-anticipated Summer 2021 departmental newsletter is finally here! It features a proud and long list of accomplishments and activities thanks to our faculty, students, and staff. It records the critical engagement of the...- 2021-06-16 - A collaborative project in Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America draws on interdisciplinary approaches, surveys, and the study of concrete evidence of changes in maize, to challenge the long-held view that the shift to agriculture from hunting was uniform across regions. Instead, they...
- 2021-05-06 - The Department of Anthropology faculty recently passed a resolution on Decolonizing Anthropology. You can read the statement here. A motion from the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) initiated the discussions...
- 2021-04-27 - Anthropology and Linguistics Assistant Professor Krystal A Smalls is the recipient of this year's faculty prize for Research in the Humanities by the Illinois HRI. Professor Smalls' Chapter 12 award winning contribution to ...
2021-04-26 - The LAS Impact Award recognizes College faculty, staff, and students who went beyond expectations to make a difference in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and beyond during the past year. LHEAP was among the awardees for providing vitally...- 2021-04-26 - The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP) is a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, coalescing at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and is committed to and coordinates free pop-up COVID...
- 2021-04-26 - Joseph Coyle, Anthropology PhD student is the recipient of the 2021-22 HRI Campus Fellowship Award. The theme of the award this year was "Symptoms of Crisis" and Joseph Coyle's doctoral research contribution is titled "Queer Pentecostal Worldmaking in an Uncertain Brazil."
- 2021-04-26 - LAS Impact Awards are out and Anthropology Assistant Professor is among the group of exceptional individuals who received it. The award recognizes inspiring...
2021-04-22 - Students from around the world have the opportunity to study dance as an intangible cultural heritage first-hand and to fully engage with different cultures. Choreomundus is a European Union Erasmus Mundus program that investigates dance and other movement systems (ritual...
2021-04-19 - Congratulations to our amazing anthropology students (in alphabetical order: Brooke Blaszynski, Emilia Gibes, Carmen Moy and Sophia Sato) for being crowned co-champions in the Society for American Archaeology Ethics Bowl...- 2021-04-19 - Professor Kate Clancy's and Phd alumna Katharine Lee's online survey on the relationship between COVID-19 and menstruation has been online for less than a week and has already gathered more than 19,000 responses! The research, which was inspired by a...
- 2021-04-08 - Alex Jong-Seok Lee, Anthropology PhD alumnus is featured in Rice Thresher, Rice University's student newspaper. As a postdoctoral researcher, Lee teaches a class on race, racism and identity in Asia. The class includes guest visits from different parts of Asia and covers a wide range of topics...