05/18/2023 - Along with May's convocation ceremony and with the help of our exceptional students, Anthropology celebrated the person who helped our undergraduate students get there. Dr Maritza Quiñones,...
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05/11/2023 - Congratulations to our graduating students! We cannot wait to hear about all the wonderful things you will be doing moving forward, and how your Anthropology degree helped you prepare for them!...
05/06/2023 - Prof. Jane Desmond has won a British Academy Visiting Researcher Fellowship for the fall semester, 2023. She will be in residence during the fall semester at the Institute for Science and Society at...
04/09/2023 - Anthropology celebrates this year's award recipients from the Humanity Research Institute! Join us in congratulating: Alana Ackerman for receiving a graduate prize for “I Hope They...
04/09/2023 - Join us in congratulating our very own Anthropology Professor Dr Stanley Ambrose for having been selected as Edward Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University in Spring 2024...
02/05/2023 - Anthropology Assistant Professor, Dr Jessica Brinkworth, collaborated with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District for an art show that teaches generations of students about the spread of...
01/13/2023 - Congratulations to Assistant Professor Erin Riggs on achieving a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for her historical archaeology research project “An Archaeology of...
01/13/2023 - UIUC faculty and students, including the Department of Anthropology, Department of African American Studies, Profs. Gerald McWorter, Kate Williams, and Christopher Fennell have significantly...
12/29/2022 - In a recent podcast with Story Collider, Dr Jessica Brinworth,...
12/07/2022 - Dr. Nedra K. Lee from the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Dr. ...
11/28/2022 - The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology recently announced the Center for Indigenous Science will attempt to ask "questions of importance to Indigenous peoples, and taught to the next...
11/16/2022 - Eighteen Illinois undergraduate students from Dr Andrew Orta's ANTH 103 - Anthropology in a Changing World course won the Public Anthropology Awards from the Center for Public Anthropology!...
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10/21/2022 - Assistant professor Dr Jessica Brinkworth has co-authored an article in the journal Nature on the evolution of immune genes associated with infectious diseases, especially the second...
10/21/2022 - Congratulations to Anthropology Associate Professor, Dr Jenny Davis, for being named Conrad Humanities Scholar for 2022! According to the...
