2021-08-20
- Chris Fennell published a new book, "The Archaeology of Craft and Industry," in the “American Experience in Archaeological Perspective” book series by University Press of Florida, this summer.
Archaeologists investigating sites of craft and industrial enterprise often puzzle over a domain of bewildering ruins. Locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity stand silent. This book...
- 2021-08-11 - Professor Jane Desmond recently published a public engagement article in Synapsis titled 'The Tiger in the Waiting Room: Addressing Moral Stress in Medicine.' The article addresses the -increasingly important in a post-pandemic world -topic, drawing from practicioners' experiences in human and animal medicine, philosophical standpoints, the author's teaching, and practical possibilities for...
2021-08-04 - A much-anticipated Summer 2021 departmental newsletter is finally here! It features a proud and long list of accomplishments and activities thanks to our faculty, students, and staff. It records the critical engagement of the department and its members with recent social and political events. It, unfortunately, honors valued...- 2021-06-16 - A collaborative project in Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America draws on interdisciplinary approaches, surveys, and the study of concrete evidence of changes in maize, to challenge the long-held view that the shift to agriculture from hunting was uniform across regions. Instead, they argue that this transition happened in two phases, beginning with central areas low-productivity...
- 2021-05-06 - The Department of Anthropology faculty recently passed a resolution on Decolonizing Anthropology. You can read the statement here. A motion from the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) initiated the discussions leading up to the resolution. The motion of the ABA was endorsed by the ...
- 2021-04-27 - Anthropology and Linguistics Assistant Professor Krystal A Smalls is the recipient of this year's faculty prize for Research in the Humanities by the Illinois HRI. Professor Smalls' Chapter 12 award winning contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) was...
2021-04-26 - The LAS Impact Award recognizes College faculty, staff, and students who went beyond expectations to make a difference in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and beyond during the past year. LHEAP was among the awardees for providing vitally important COVID-19 testing to an underserved Illinois community. Read more about LHEAP ...- 2021-04-26 - The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP) is a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, coalescing at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and is committed to and coordinates free pop-up COVID testing in Champaign County with a focus on people who live and work in Rantoul, Illinois...
- 2021-04-26 - Joseph Coyle, Anthropology PhD student is the recipient of the 2021-22 HRI Campus Fellowship Award. The theme of the award this year was "Symptoms of Crisis" and Joseph Coyle's doctoral research contribution is titled "Queer Pentecostal Worldmaking in an Uncertain Brazil."
- 2021-04-26 - LAS Impact Awards are out and Anthropology Assistant Professor is among the group of exceptional individuals who received it. The award recognizes inspiring efforts during COVID-19. Professor Brinkworth received the award for leading efforts to provide...
2021-04-22 - Students from around the world have the opportunity to study dance as an intangible cultural heritage first-hand and to fully engage with different cultures. Choreomundus is a European Union Erasmus Mundus program that investigates dance and other movement systems (ritual practices, martial arts, games and physical theatre) as intangible cultural heritage. Choreomundus...
2021-04-19 - Congratulations to our amazing anthropology students (in alphabetical order: Brooke Blaszynski, Emilia Gibes, Carmen Moy and Sophia Sato) for being crowned co-champions in the Society for American Archaeology Ethics Bowl on Thursday of last week. The Ethics Bowl is a debate-style competition using realistic case...- 2021-04-19 - Professor Kate Clancy's and Phd alumna Katharine Lee's online survey on the relationship between COVID-19 and menstruation has been online for less than a week and has already gathered more than 19,000 responses! The research, which was inspired by a well-...
- 2021-04-08 - Alex Jong-Seok Lee, Anthropology PhD alumnus is featured in Rice Thresher, Rice University's student newspaper. As a postdoctoral researcher, Lee teaches a class on race, racism and identity in Asia. The class includes guest visits from different parts of Asia and covers a wide range of topics from politics and government to pop-culture. You can read the entire article...
- 2021-04-05 - Professor Kate Clancy and Anthropology PhD alumna Katie Lee have recently launched a social media survey, in order to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine on menstruation. The survey is in the process of receiving IRB approval, before the results are processed for scientific publication. Still, it has received...