2022-05-02
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My name is Christian Hasler, and I am an Anthropology major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I attended the UIUC Sapelo Island Field School of 2021, and here is a little bit about my experience!
To get to the island, we drove from Davenport Hall to Dalton, GA, then from Dalton to the Sapelo island ferry. Once we got there, we made ourselves comfortable in the...
- 2022-05-02 - My name is Daniela Gradilla and I am a senior majoring in anthropology with a concentration in archaeology. As many of you know, archaeology students are required to do a field school during their undergrad. I had always wanted to be a part of a field school and to experience what archaeology is all about but with the COVID-19 pandemic, I worried that I wouldn’t have that opportunity. I...
- 2022-05-01 - Much of our field school was spent digging shovel test units and the proper way to dig these units. We focused heavily on the correct technique to cut walls with shovels to ensure the walls would not collapse and there would be a sturdy structure to continue digging down, as some shovel test units could be dug a meter deep. It also is significant to ensure that no artifacts are missed...
- 2022-05-01 - The field school I attended this summer would be one of the most treasurable memories. This one and half month's experience not only gave me hands-on learning experience in my major archaeology but also offered me a chance to meet lovely people who shared similar interests and passions. In field moments ...
- 2022-05-01 - My name is Makayla Muzinic, and I am a senior double majoring in Anthropology and Integrative Biology. Over this past summer, I was able to intern at the Frances Nelson Health Center of Promise Healthcare in Champaign, IL. I was placed in the prenatal department because I have experience in the Carle NICU, and I was selected as a recipient of the Liebman Engaged Anthropology Award from this...
- 2022-05-01 - Sophia Sato (pictured at the upper left) is a senior who received a Liebman Undergraduate Internship Award for the Spring 2021 semester. She worked closely with Dr. Korinta Maldonado as an intern for Indigenous Languages on the Move, which is a language justice and interpreters collective in the Urbana-Champaign area. This is what she had to say about her experience: “I am so...
- 2022-04-29 - I am Miles Ury, a senior at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana(UIUC) pursuing a double major in Archaeology and Statistics. This past summer(2021) I attended a field school run by UIUC that took place at the Kenan Field site on Sapelo Island, Georgia, and was spearheaded by Dr. Ritchison, a professor at the university. The field school actually existed, was safe in the U.S...
- 2022-04-29 - 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 Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology with scholarly interests in one or more of the following: paleoanthropology, human evolutionary anatomy and biomechanics. The...
- 2022-04-18 - 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 cultural resource investigations throughout the Midwest as part of a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-based cultural resources management program. Position requires in-State and out-of-...
- 2022-03-30 - Building on the momentum of public outreach for anthropological work, a NYT Opinion article on mourning pets (...
- 2022-03-23 - 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 members of resent-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe with that of ancestors who lived in the area several hundred to 2,000 years ago. Stanford University biology professor Noah Rosenberg...
- 2022-03-23 - Anthropology Professors Lucero and Malhi are featured in a New York Times article (...
- 2022-03-17 - 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 cultural resource investigations throughout the Midwest as part of a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-based cultural resources management program. Position requires in-State...
- 2022-03-16 - The Department of Anthropology stands in solidarity with the following statement on the military assault on Ukraine shared by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. From: The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Department of Slavic Languages &...
- 2022-03-15 - 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 in Salt Lake City, Utah. According to the award’s description: The Bronislaw Malinowski Award is presented to an outstanding social scientist in recognition of efforts to understand and...