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...
- 2021-03-05 - Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth participated in the construction of a new classroom COVID-19 primer. The primer addresses the rise of new, more competitive SARS-CoV-2 variants Professor Brinkworth's contribution focuses on anthro themes, more specifically the social determinants of virus evolution, such as crowding, social stress, lack of care and how they constitute greater host...
2021-02-28 - Professors Jane Desmond and Virginia Dominguez of Anthropology are featured (among other past IFUSS fellows from various countries) in an upcoming webinar for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History on "US Studies in an International Context" next Sunday, March 7th. Register here. ...- 2021-02-23 - Prof Ripan Malhi has been awarded a Levenick Teaching Sustainability Fellowship for AY 2021-22. Dr Malhi joins an expanding cohort of sustainability educators on campus eager to introduce new ideas and strategies to the classroom. The fellowship program is administered by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment (iSEE) Description of Proposed...
- 2021-02-23 - Anthropology Professor Ripan Malhi, and PhD alumna Alyssa Bader are featured in a KTOO report about Sealaska Heritage lectures, a lecture series to highlight the need for inclusivity and indigenous researchers in academia. Read article here and listen radion version...
- 2021-02-23 - Anthropology PhD candidate Karthik Yarlagadda has published a scientific paper on his doctoral research. Coauthor Dr. Kelsey Witt is a recent graduate of the Program for Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Conservation. Also part of the project and co-authors on the publication are recent anthropology graduate Dr. Alyssa Bader and Prof. Stan Ambrose.
2021-02-10 - The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project has offered significant service in the community and has investigated and filled important gaps in COVID-19-related testing and services. Anthropology Associate Professor, one of the investigators for the project, discussed it in an interview with...- 2021-02-08 - Joseph A. Coyle, Anthropology PhD student is named HRI program fellow for 2021. The theme for this year's programs is "Symptoms of Crisis." Please, join us in congratulating Joseph for this amazing achievement!
2021-02-08 - Please, join us in congratulating Breanna Escamilla, Anthropology PhD student for her being named Humanities without Walls Predoctoral Fellow for 2021. The Humanities Without Walls fellowship program aims to link the humanities at 16 Universities and beyond. Escamilla is the only UIUC applicant to gain acceptance...
2021-02-05 - Anthropology News from the American Anthropological Association features our very own, Assistant Professor Krystal A. Smalls among its Stars from AAA sections. Professor Smalls is recognized for her eclectic research and engage scholarship, and the theoretical rigor she has contributed to the field. Read the whole article...- 2021-01-29 - Gutsgell Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Virginia Dominguez recently conducted an interview with academic, clinical anthropologist, and practicing psychotherapist, Salma Siddique. The interview sheds light to the valuable offerings of anthropological insight and understanding of culture to psychotherapy and working through...
- 2020-12-17 - The Malhi Laboratory has made Illinois News for leading anthropological research that studied the DNA of elephant tusks found in a Portuguese shipwreck in 1533, off the coast of Namimbia. The analysis, led by postdoctoral researcher of the Malhi Lab, Alida de Flamingh, and...