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...
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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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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...- 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...
- 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...
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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2021-03-30 - In Spring 2021, ANTH 126 "Humans and Animals: Food or Friend?" became the inaugural course for the Humanities Research Lab. Professor Jane Desmond who designed and teaches the class as part of the "Grand Challenges"...