2019-05-09
- Trinity College Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies Timothy R. Landry has been selected for a Fulbright award to the Africa Regional Research Program to study magico-religious objects used in sorcery in the country of Bénin. The Fulbright Program is...
- 2019-04-10 - NYU Article by Sam Roberts "Sydel Silverman, an anthropologist who championed her profession as a scholar, teacher, historian and preservationist, died on March 25 in Manhattan. She was 85." To read more, explore the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/obituaries/sydel-silverman-dead.html
- 2019-03-25 - The position is a two-year post-doc in the Academy Scholars Program at Harvard’s Academy for International and Area Studies. At Harvard, Sophia will be working on my first book. Based on my ethnographic research in Kenya and in the U.S., the book shows that international humanitarian discourses prize the family and family unity, yet “family composition fraud” constitutes a...
2019-03-16 - Paul Michael L. Atienza and Jean Larmon are among 25 selected for a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of graduate student research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their photographs will be on display Wednesday, April 3, 4-5:30 PM at the Main Library, Room 220. To learn more, view: ...- 2019-03-04 - "27,000-year-old giant ground sloth tooth is like a climate time capsule" by Ashley Strickland (CNN) - Fossil discoveries are exciting on their own, but sometimes, they carry even more information about the past. Newly uncovered fossils from an extinct giant ground sloth that lived in Belize 27,000 years ago provide a portrait of what the climate was like for the last...
- 2019-02-19 - CHAMPAIGN – Timothy R. Pauketat, a University of Illinois professor of Anthropology, is the new director of the Prairie Research Institute’s Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS). Pauketat, who has been a visiting research scientist at ISAS since 2016, has conducted most of his archaeological field research at and around the Native American...
- 2019-02-19 - The Mythic Mississippi: I-Heritage as Public Engagement and Economic and Social Development, $180,000 This public engagement project, led by Helaine Silverman, professor of anthropology, and Devin Hunter from the Springfield campus, will help a selection of downstate Illinois communities to identify...
- 2019-01-28 - Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America by Jennifer Burrell and Ellen Moodie "Central America is again in the news as a region in crisis. In October 2018, a group of migrants gathered in a bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and began marching north. They quickly became the largest caravan yet to travel through Mexico from Central...
2018-12-18 - Fresh out of college, Shakari Stroud landed a position coveted by many new graduates: She joined Teach for America, a nonprofit organization that places promising young teachers in K-12 schools in low-income communities to help improve the learning environment for children. As a middle school math teacher, she laughs, she cries, she deals with lost backpacks—and...- 2018-12-18 - Tyler Dunn was in a Nova special entitled “Last B-24,” about forensic identification of wreckage of a WWII bomber! View the entire PBS Special here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/last-b-24/
2018-12-13 - Anthropology professor Ellen Moodie has been involved in numerous asylum cases for Salvadorans and other Central Americans in recent years, through either expert testimony or written affidavits. She spoke with News Bureau social sciences...
2018-12-01 - The Anthropology Department has begun to feature promising undergraduates on their webpage. Specifically, they stories of research experiences in department labs, at departmental field sites or with a departmental faculty member via an internship, for example. Features include undergraduates who are very engaged in research, who can see connections between their experiences with research in the...- 2018-11-28 - Our very own Dr. Laura Shackelford has been featured in the News Gazette! Learn more about her Virtual Reality Lab here: http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2018-11-25/dig-vr-lab-lets-ui-archaeology-students-explore-mammoth-cave-campus.html
- 2018-11-08 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars. They are taking advantage of the new designation to pursue a variety of projects, from studying second language acquisition and black girlhood to researching immigration politics. Melissa Bowles, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ruth Nicole Brown, professor of gender and women's studies...
- 2018-11-04 - How did dogs get to America? And how were they used when they got here? That’s what UI researcher Ripan Malhi aims to find out by sequencing canine DNA. -By PAUL WOOD. To View the whole article, click here: http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2018-11-04/russia-...