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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...

2020-10-26 - Anthropology Associate Professor, Kate Clancy and recent Anthropology PhD alumna, Dr Katharine Lee publish new research that discusses the relevance of bone density and frame size to habitual use and domestic labor. The research, based on four-year observation of Polish women in rural areas, is featured in...

2020-10-09 - Michelle Patiño-Flores and Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Anthropology graduate students are going to be participating in Contemporary Conversations on Race from the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures next Thursday, October 15th at 4:00 pm with the program "Pigmentocracy: Exploring Intracultural Colorism." Let's join them!

2020-09-29 - Forensic Anthropology Clinical Associate Professor Cris Hughes has been featured on the Smile Politely magazine, for her clinical and community work. Professor Hughes' account offers insight into one of the fascinating professional paths that anthropology training is opening up. Please, find the article...

2020-09-28 - Anthropology Professor Jane Desmond is going to be presenting in an event titled 'The Arts in the Time of Pandemic: Performance,' along with Professors Deke Weaver (Media Studies) and Jorge Lucero (Art Education) on September 30, 2020 at 4pm.  More information on the event and registration can be found here

2020-09-09 - Department of Anthropology Professor, Jessica Brinkworth has been featured on Illinois News for her research on how cell-autonomous immunity shaped human evolution. Please, read the article here.