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...
- 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...