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Congratulations to Associate Professor, Gilberto Rosas!
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...
Congratulations to Professor Kate Clancy!
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...
Congratulations, Joseph Coyle!
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!
Statement Concerning Anti-Black Racism
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...
Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth on COVID-19
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 ...
Protesting in the time of a pandemic
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.
Dr Korinta Maldonado's J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff
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
Anthropology professor Helaine Silverman on pandemics and fear
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...
Doctoral candidate recognized for outstanding collaboration in Department of Gender & Women's Studies
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...
Assistant Professor Korinta Maldonado Goti receives J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff
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...
The Evolutionary Immunology and Genomics Laboratory answers your questions about COVID-19
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...
Anthropologists on COVID-19
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...
Graduate students, Brenda Gisela Garcia and Jeongsu Shin make it to the semifinals of the 2020 Image of Research Competition
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...
Collaborative Book Celebration
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...
Anthropology Students Create Media Content on Contemporary Issues
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...