2020-05-22
- Anthropology Assistant Professor Jessica F Brinkworth gave two talks as part of an introductory seminar on COVID-19 for the College of Engineering. You can watch them here:
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- 2020-05-12 - Department of Anthropology Professor, Jane Desmond wrote about protesting in the time of a pandemic in an Op Ed piece that was published in Public Seminar. She explores there the balance between 'creating a social movement and social distancing.' Read the full article here.
- 2020-05-11 - Dr Maldonado, this year's recipient of the J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff talks about her teaching, research and activism. Learn more about Dr Maldonado's class on Engaged and Public Anthropology
- 2020-05-08 - Anthropology Professor Helaine Silverman reflects LAS News about her research and teaching on the history of the English village Eyam. Its inhabitants self-quarantined for more than 14 months in 1665, during the Plague pandemic. Professor Silverman teaches about Eyam and its selfless sacrifice in her Archaeology of Death class. “The...
- 2020-05-07 - The Department of Gender and Women's Studies awarded doctoral candidate Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza with a GWS Outstanding Student Award. Atienza was nominated for their collaborative organizing of the first GWS graduate minor symposium titled "Solidarities in Difference: Keywords in Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies." Atienza proposed and...
2020-04-28 - This year's recipient of the J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff is Dr. Korinta Maldonado Goti. Dr. Kora Maldonado's work on indigenous movements, human rights, and racial formations in Latin America are not only the center of her research, but of her public service to the Champaign-Urbana community. Her work is building bridges and promoting...- 2020-04-11 - Can the great apes get SARS-CoV-2? Is the disease airborne? Can wearing cloth masks protect you? What about hairdryers? Can they stop an infection? Assistant Professor Jessica F Brinkworth and the members of the Evolutionary Immunology and Genomics Laboratory at the University of Illinois have put together a list of resources, in order to respond to your questions and dispel...
2020-04-09 - What does anthropological research and analysis in the time of COVID-19 offer? The following are only a few examples of the fascinating, interdisciplinary perspectives that anthropology brings to the discussion table. “Since few things are as pervasive as a global pandemic, there is hardly any subject (in anthropology and beyond) which we could not...- 2020-04-08 - Please, join us in congratulating Anthropology Graduate Students Brenda Gisela Garcia and Jeongsu Shin for making it to the Semifinals of the 2020 Image of Research Competition. It is the third year in a row that Anthropology Graduate Students are reaching the semifinals. The Image of Research is a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity...
2020-03-09 - On Thursday, March 5, Department of Anthropology faculty, students and friends gathered at the Author's Corner of the Illini Bookstore for a very special event: the collaborative celebration of faculty book achievements. Professor Brenda M Farnell, Head of Department, introduced a stunning number of fifteen books and set the tone, by offering a number of common questions, such...- 2020-03-03 - In the fall of 2019, Dr. Jeff Martin instructed the undergraduate course Anthropology 103 “Anthropology in a Changing World”. The course approached the broad question of how an anthropological approach allows us to think critically about climate change, students had the opportunity to work together on a group project that resulted in five-minute videos. From topics...
- 2020-02-26 - Professor Fennell of the Department of Anthropology presented an invited paper on the New Philadelphia Archaeological Project under the tile “Resilience and Racism in a 19th Century American Heartland: New Philadelphia and the Vagaries of Prejudice.” The talk was part of a symposium entitled “Revealing Communities: The Archaeology of Free African Americans in the Nineteenth Century.”...
- 2020-02-24 - Students from the Anthropology Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrated Anthropology Day by reaching out to the community! Part of their activity for the day was a visit to Centennial High School and Lindsay Aikman’s senior AVID class. AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a national program focused on college and career readiness and...
- 2020-02-24 - Brenda is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Legal Humanities at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) for the 2020–21 academic year. Congratulations on your receipt of this prestigious fellowship!
- 2020-02-13 - An editorial in Nature Genetics highlights the exceptional work carried out by Professor Ripan Malhi's Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Consortium, and its most recent accomplishment: the international conference in Aotearoa, New Zealand, the first international conference on indigenous communities....