08/11/2022 - At a time of extinction crisis for the world's 521 primate species, Anthropology Professor Emeritus Paul A. Garber and his collaborators publish important research that compares geographic patterns...
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06/29/2022 - In a new piece for the Illinois News, Professor Lisa Lucero is writing about the challenges and special considerations of doing archaeological work against currents of development in Belize....
06/28/2022 - Anthropology Assistant Professor, Dr Erin Riggs is giving a talk Thursday, June 30 at 2:30-4:00pm UK time (8:30-10:00am CST) titled "Is ‘Displacement’ Debilitating? An Archaeology of Post-...
06/13/2022 - A recent article in the Yearbook of Biological Anthropology highlights sepsis's unequal effect on Black, Indigenous and...
05/24/2022 - Join us in congratulating Professor Kathryn Clancy for earning the Provost's Distinguished Promotion Award...
05/19/2022 - Professor Laura Shackelford's research in the Annamite Mountains of Laos is shedding light to mystery. She and collaborator Fabrice Demeter, a paleoanthropologist at the Lundbeck Foundation...
04/29/2022 - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an...
04/18/2022 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Public Service Archaeology & Architecture Program is searching for three Public Service Assistant Specialists that will conduct all levels of...
03/30/2022 - Building on the momentum of public outreach for anthropological work, a NYT ...
03/23/2022 - Anthropology Professors Lucero and Malhi are featured in a New York Times article (...
03/23/2022 - A genomic study led by Professor Ripan S Malhi challenges the notion that the Ohlone emigrated to the San Fransisco Bay Area between A.D. 500-1,000. The research links the DNA of eight present-day...
03/17/2022 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Public Service Archaeology & Architecture Program is searching for three Public Service Assistant Specialists that will conduct...
03/16/2022 - The Department of Anthropology stands in solidarity with the following statement on the military assault on Ukraine shared by the Russian, East European, and...
03/15/2022 - Faye V. Harrison has been named the 2022 recipient of the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Malinowski Award and will deliver the Malinowski Address at the Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 25...
03/14/2022 - How old is COVID-19? What does SARS-CoV-2 do in cells? How did it get to its current form? How do its mutations work? What role does evolution play in the transmission of the virus? Assistant...