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...
- 2020-12-17 - Join us in extending our most proud congratulations to Anthropology Alumnus, Daniel Gutierrez, for being elected to the National Main Street America's Leadership Council. This is the national leadership body for Main...
- 2020-12-17 - Anthropology Professor Gilberto Rosas' op-ed in the News-Gazette discusses the multiple ways by which the current pandemic has revealed public-health inequalities among Black, Indigenous and Latino populations, here in our community and nationwide. Professor Rosas is one of the investigators in the Labor Health Equity, Action Project (LHEAP), an interdisciplinary engaged community...
2020-12-03 - The Labor Health Equity Action Project is an interdisciplinary project that offers pop-up testing clinics in agricultural workers and rural communities of Rantul, IL and aims to study the relationship of socio-economic factors to the transmission of COVID-19. It is spearheaded by anthropology professors Jessica F Brinkworth, Korinta Maldonado, Ellen Moodie and...- 2020-11-30 - UPDATED: Link to the interview "COVID-19 Testing Access" (November 30, 2020) Tune in to WILL (AM-580) Monday at 11 am to hear our very own Jessica Brinkworth and Korinta Maldonado talk about the Labor Health Equity Action Project (LHeap), which they formed with Gilberto Rosas, Ellen Moodie, and bioanthropologist Rachel...
- 2020-11-19 - What is a Land Acknowledgment Statement and why is it read? How is it connected to larger Native American issues on our campus, in our region, and throughout the country? Now that we’ve read it, what’s next? Explore these questions and help co-create resources, guiding principles, and strategies around the next steps at HRI's 2020 Work-In on December 1, facilitated by Professor Jenny Davis (...
2020-11-19 - Are you applying to the doctoral program in the Department of Anthropology? Do you wonder what the application process takes, or what it is like to be a doctoral student with us? Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor Kathryn B. H. Clancy, representatives from faculty, graduate students and graduate union and graduate association speak in the informational session recorded on...- 2020-11-10 - Anthropology doctoral students Chibundo Anwuly Egwuatu and Lila Ann Dodge organized a roundtable with the AAA "Raising Our Voices” event series, sponsored by APLA. Anthropology as Work: Interacademic Labor Solidarities, was live-streamed on AAA’s Zoom on Friday, November 6th, 1:30-2:30 CT. Nine panelists addressed different angles of...
- 2020-11-10 - Professors Kora Maldonado of Anthropology and Ruby Mendenhall of Sociology spoke about how they have imagined and practiced research-based community partnerships based on mutual respect and equity. The virtual event, organized by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, took place on Friday, November 6, 2020 at noon. Professor Jenny Davis of...
2020-10-28 - The 50th-anniversary issue of the Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists is out as of October 17, 2020! Besides her writing, it features the acknowledgment of Anthropology Professor Faye V Harrison's intellectual and pedagogical contribution to the field. Check out this fascinating issue here!...- 2020-10-26 - Anthropology Alumna Ann Lee Joe (BA '96) is interviewed by LAS and Kayleigh Rahn about how her education with LAS has shaped her international experiences and aspirations, as well as provided her with the professional skills to pursue a career in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Check out her alumna spotlight...