2020-09-04
- A different Meet-and-Greet event was in store for Anthropologists this year, as the University of Illinois community is practicing social distancing. Zoom replaced good ol' Davenport Hall, but this did not stop the positive energy to reaffirm members' collegiality and commitment to each other and the Department of Anthropology.
Our Head of Department, Professor Brenda M Farnell,...
- 2020-07-12 - Professor Jane Desmond of Anthropology has been newly appointmented at the Center for Advanced Study as CAS Resident Director of the new Human-Animal Studies @ Illinois Initiative. Professor Desmond has already established a distinguished record of organizing human-animal studies programs at CAS, including the Knowing Animals initiative (AY2010-11) and the 3 week long summer...
- 2020-07-09 - Even in the midst of a pandemic, anthropology graduate research has remained strong, even if undergoing significant transformations. Alana Ackerman and Claire Branigan, PhD students in Sociocultural Anthropology reflect on the changing conditions in their field sites in Latin America -and the subsequent changes on the nature of their work. You can read their work following the...
2020-06-29 - In a thought-provoking piece published this morning on the Hill, Professor Desmond of Anthropology suggests it may be time to cut down on fireworks noise. "Silent" fireworks, she argues, can deliver the same fascinating visual effects, without the sounds that can be causing or triggering trauma for people and animals alike. This is the fourth and final Op Ed from Professor Desmond with The...- 2020-06-23 - Please, join us in congratulating Associate Professor Gilberto Rosas for being named Conrad Humanities Scholar for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! The prestigious award is funded by a gift from late Arlys Conrad. Her estate gift is shared with the College of LAS and the College fo Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and is intended to aid and...
- 2020-06-20 - Please join us in congratulating Professor Kate Clancy, recipient of the Campus Distinguished Award for Excellence in Public Engagement! Kate Clancy was nominated and selected by her colleagues who distinguished her for her service and leadership. We are so happy and proud to have her as part of the Department of Anthropology. We are grateful for her contribution to the continuing...
- 2020-06-10 - Join us in congratulating Joseph Coyle, the winner of this year's Nicholson Graduate Fellowship from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory!
2020-06-09 - As a department committed to addressing systemic racism, state sanctioned violence and other structures of oppression, the University of Illinois Department of Anthropology explicitly condemns the murders by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others, as well as the anti-Black racism that makes their tragic murders familiar occurrences. We also wish...- 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: Short (4 minute) version ...
- 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...