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  • The cells are M2 macrophages we cultured from human monocytes infected with Yersinia pestis Kim5 10:1 and cultured for 24 hours.
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    ANTHROPOLOGY

    Advancing Knowledge,

    Solving Human Problems

     

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    Undergraduates can do credit-bearing winter break programs.

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    Undergraduate Summer Opportunities in Anthropology

    Looking for internship and research opportunities for Summer 2019?

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    Dr. Ellen Moodie

    What’s it take to get asylum? And what’s driving those seeking it?

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  • The cells are M2 macrophages we cultured from human monocytes infected with Yersinia pestis Kim5 10:1 and cultured for 24 hours.
    The Evolutionary Immunology and Genomic Lab: Evolutionary impact of plague

    The slide depicts human macrophages infected with Yersinia pestis Kim 5 (plague) 10:1 after 24 hours. Here DNA is blue, Y. pestis is green and bacterial death is marked in red. 

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What is Anthropology?

Anthropology is the study of difference - it teaches us about what it means to be human from cross-cultural points of view.

  • Broaden your perspective and rethink what is familiar abroad and strange at home.
  • Learn to understand diverse ways of thinking and different ways of interacting.
  • Explore varied modes of living across geographical space and historical deep time.
  • Embrace your global citizenship - from around the corner to around the globe, and from the past to the present for the future.

The goal of anthropology is to advance our collective understanding of the human condition through anthropological research, and to apply this understanding to solve human problems.

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DIVERSITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY: OUR COMMITMENT

In line with discussions at the national level by the American Anthropological Association, we recognize that race, gender, class, religion, disability, language, and sexuality matter in all of the sub-disciplines of anthropology, not simply as topics of study, but in terms of the politics of scholarly practice.

As a discipline that has grappled with serious critique of its connections to racial and colonial formations, we believe that we have an important responsibility to develop “best practices”, in our graduate curriculum and our disciplinary philosophy, that serve and value all our students.

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  • Dr. Helaine Silverman won a research fund!

    The Mythic Mississippi: I-Heritage as Public Engagement and Economic and Social Development, $180,000
    Read full story Dr. Helaine Silverman won a research fund!
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    What’s it take to get asylum? And what’s driving those seeking it?

     
    Read full story What’s it take to get asylum? And what’s driving those seeking it?
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    Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Kyle Boshardy

    The Anthropology Department has begun to feature promising undergraduates on their webpage. Specifically, they stories of research experiences in department labs, at departmental field sites or with a departmental faculty member via an internship, for example.
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  • Dr. Pauketat to lead Illinois State Archaeological Survey

    CHAMPAIGN – Timothy R. Pauketat, a University of Illinois professor of Anthropology, is the new director of the Prairie Research Institute’s Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS).
  • Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America

    Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America by Jennifer Burrell and Ellen Moodie  
  • Tyler Dunn in PBS Nova Special, "B-24"!

    Tyler Dunn was in a Nova special entitled “Last B-24,” about forensic identification of wreckage of a WWII bomber! View the entire PBS Special here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/last-b-24/  
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    Anthropology of the Americas
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    Criminality, Law & Social Justice
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    Engaged Globalization
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    Health, Medicine & Wellness
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    Identity & Politics: Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality
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    Immigration, Transnationalism & Diaspora
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    ANTH 230

    Sociocultural Anthropology

    Introduction to the anthropological study of contemporary human societies; emphasis on the comparative study of social organization, interpersonal relations, cultural ecology, and processes of sociocultural change, but also includes some consideration of the method and theory of ethnographic fiel

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    ANTH 143

    Biology of Human Behavior

    Critical consideration of data and information bearing on current controversies and ideas concerning selected aspects of human behavior. Topics to be discussed include communication; social organization; and parental, sexual, and aggressive behavior.

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    ANTH 101

    Introduction to Anthropology

    Anthropology was first envisioned as a holistic discipline, combining insights from the study of human anatomy and evolution, research on material remains of human settlements, and the analysis of social interaction in language and other cultural practices.

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