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...
- 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" initiative was interviewed by HRI intern Maya Moucharrafie and Erin Ciciora. She talked about the...
- 2021-03-27 - Research from the lab of Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth on early immune responses of primates to bacterial and viral infections has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article, titled "Primate innate immune responses to bacterial and viral pathogens reveals an evolutionary trade-off...
- 2021-03-12 - Krystiana Krupa, program officer for NAGPRA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign office, gave a talk about the implications of 30 years of the Act for teaching and research. The recording of the talk can be found here
- 2021-03-11 - A just-published article on Evolutionary Anthropology by Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth and graduate student Negin Valizadegan of Anthropology offers a new analysis on bacterial sepsis. The article emphasizes the importance of the field in finding...