Anthropology

The lecture Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The Case of Roma People in Europe was given by Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache on April 10, 2025, with the UIUC European Union Center. It explores the different ways anti-Roma racism... Read full story Recording Available for EUC lecture entitled Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The Case of Roma People in Europe by Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache

On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and... Read full story Why were Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador? Illinois Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Moodie speaks with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about the decision.

Congratulations to the Illinois Anthropology faculty and graduate students who made the Fall 2024 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in teaching Anthropology and Museum Studies courses! Abing, J TA 104*Bishop, K 220Calhoun, K 399David, L 441Desmond, J 375 & 498Evans, L TA 220Garcia, I TA... Read full story Congratulations to our Fall 2024 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent!