2022-03-14
- 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 Professor Jessica Brinkworth of Anthropology is answering those questions and more ...
- 2022-02-26 - Join us in congratulating Anthropology graduate students Nicole Cox and Dilara Caliskan for being awarded an HRI Graduate Student Fellowship for AY 2022-23! Cox's dissertation research "investigates the presence of dancing in India’s cultural relations, a foreign relations practice that connects people abroad with the heritage, people, or cultural practices of India. Through this work, [...
2022-02-25 - Single-Use Plastics Elimination and Reuse Protocols for Labs (SUPERLabs), a project by Anthropology Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth was recently awarded an $81,865 grant to reduce dependency on single-use plastics by developing protocols for plastics reuse. SUPERLabs is funded by the Student Sustainability Committee, which has funded 316 projects across campus, and allocated $15.55...
2022-02-16 - Our very own, Professor Faye V. Harrison is to receive the 2022 Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society of Applied Anthropology! According to the SfAA website, the award is presented annually to an outstanding...- 2022-02-09 - Anthropology Assistant Professor Erin Riggs gave a talk recently with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies titled "Public Memory vs. Patterned Landscapes in Post-Partition Dehli." The talk can be found here.
2022-02-08 - Our very own Joe Coyle, Anthropology PhD candidate was recently featured in a GradLife Blog post for his dissertation project, Queer Pentecostal World-Making in an Uncertain Brazil, and his Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship. Joe Coyle answered questions about the uniqueness of his work, his interest in queer methodology and epistemology, and doing anthropological work...- 2022-01-28 - My name is Brooke Blaszynski and I am a Junior in Archaeology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I attended this summer’s Field School with Dr. Ritichson on Sapelo Island in Georgia to conduct research at a native site, known as Kenan Field. This site was occupied by a native group, the Guale, prior to Spanish contact. Our research question that we approached...
- 2022-01-26 - Join us in congratulating Professors Lyle Konigsberg and Ripan S Malhi for being elected among the 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Konigsberg specializes in developing and improving methods, standards and tools for assessing age, sex...
- 2022-01-21 - A recent article at Mousson, research periodical for the humanities in S. East Asia honors late Professor Clark E. Cunningham of the Department of Anthropology. The note discusses Professor Cunningham's contributions to questions about health, social structures, symbolism, and habitat, the result of decades-long research in...
2022-01-07 - The recent graduation ceremony of December 2021 was a chance to welcome back to campus graduates from previous years, when ceremonies had been postponed. Dr Julie Torres (PhD 2020) was proudly welcomed and celebrated for an already promising and brilliant career path. She was hooded by her advisor and mentor while at UIUC, Dr Alejandro Lugo, who returned to campus to hood her (photo). ...- 2021-11-10 - Professor Lisa Lucero gave an interview to the Daily Illini about teaching, archaeology, and her passion for finding solutions to contemporary problems by knowing the past. In a characteristic example of what engaged anthropology can be, Professor Lucero described her...
- 2021-11-04 - Join us in congratulating Professor Virginia R. Dominguez for being the recipient of the Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service to the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), the leading professional association of medical anthropologists! Established in 2017, the Hazel Weidman Award is presented every two years to a member who has, over the course of a career, demonstrated...
- 2021-11-01 - Professor Lisa Lucero co-authored an article which has been published on the special issue of the Journal of the British Academy on Climate, Disaster and Risk. The article...
- 2021-10-18 - A recent LAS News piece featured the work of Anthropology Professor Kate Clancy on the biological consequences of workplace incivility. The research was an interdisciplinary response by Beckman Institute and collaborators, which aimed to understand the physiological response of workplace consistent incivility on the reproductive systems and menstrual cycles. The group separated between...
- 2021-10-15 - Professor Andrew Orta's recent book, "Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture" (2019) is featured in the Home/Field website of the Society for the Anthropology of North America. In the feature piece, Professor Orta talks in depth to Nazli Azergun about the experience of ethnographic research within...