2024-08-12 - Summer is often a time for fieldwork! Doctoral Candidate Yifan Wang writes Illinois News Bureau piece about her research in Belize this past summer, and you can read it here. 

2024-08-08 - The American Anthropological Association hosts an online forum, Present Tense, of opinion essays tackling critical topical issues around the world. Illinois Anthropology faculty Jessica Greenberg pens a piece in the collection ICC Arrest Warrants Issued to Israel/Hamas titled '...

2024-08-02 - Gilberto Rosas, chair and professor of Latina/Latino Studies and professor of Illinois Anthropology, recently discussed with the Illinois News Bureau his book "Unsettling" and how U.S. border policies affect attitudes and violence toward migrants. Check out his interview...

2024-08-02 - Participants in the Summer Bridge Program use their strengths to make an impact while learning new skills and exploring new career pathways! They spend 8 weeks in the summer contributing to a community organization in the Champaign-Urbana area. Read 2024 participant Abigail Houkes, a PhD Student at Illinois Anthropology, and her Summer Bridge Story...

2024-07-29 -                                                 The Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) is part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PRI is seeking to hire the Director of the Illinois State...

2024-07-11 - Are you a graduate student thinking about how to approach your research data? Register for this fall 2024 methods course that explores theoretical and practical aspects of discourse transcription as a method of data representation and analysis!

2024-06-27 - Join us in congratulating 2024 doctoral alumna Rachel Taylor on the birth of her baby Milo on June 23, 2024!

2024-06-24 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars and Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professors. Angela Calcaterra, Teri Chettiar, Irvin Hunt, and Ghassan Moussawi have each been honored as Conrad Humanities Scholars. The Conrad Humanities Scholars award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued...

2024-06-04 -                       We CU and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) are proud to announce the 2024–2025 Humanities in Action scholars. The new cohort—composed of five students from the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Applied...

2024-05-24 - Congratulations to Dr. Sophia Balakian, a 2017 PhD Alumna of Illinois Anthropology, who is set to publish her book 'Unsettled families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship' by Stanford University Press in 2025. Currently, Dr. Balakian is an Assistant Professor of Social Justice & Human Rights in the School of Integrative Studies at George Mason University.   Check...

2024-05-16 - Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology graduate student Abigail Houkes on being selected as a participant for the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program! Read more about the program and the 2024 participants here. 

2024-05-16 - Today we are spotlighting spring 2024 graduate Kathrina Aben! Aben is graduating with a Ph.D. in Anthropology, Historical Archaeology. Read below to learn about her dissertation research, some favorite anthropology classes, and what she is up to in her career!

2024-05-15 - Today we are spotlighting spring 2024 graduate, Wendy Haro! As we wish Wendy congratulations on the closing of this chapter, read below to read her reflections on her time at Illinois and with Illinois Anthropology ✨

2024-05-14 - Today we are spotlighting Sara Kiel, a spring 2024 graduate AND one of our incredible social media managers! Read below to see what brought Sara to anthropology, some insights into her Illinois favorites, and what she is up to next. 

2024-05-13 - It is always bittersweet to say goodbye to graduates as they begin the next chapter of their lives so we're taking some time to highlight the incredible Illinois Anthropology undergraduate and graduate students that graduated this spring 2024. Read below to learn about Rachel Taylor, a newly minted Ph.D. in Archaeology, her work, favorite classes, and what she has planned next ✨