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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. ...
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...
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...
Professor Christopher Fennell on the New Philadelphia Archaeological Project
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...
Anthropology Day Celebration
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 (...
Congratulations to Anthropology Graduate Student Brenda Garcia
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!
Congratulations Professor Ripan Malhi!
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...
Congratulations Jeongsu Shin for being named IPRH fellow for AY 20-21!
2020-02-13 - Join us in congratulating Anthropology doctoral student, Jeongsu Shin, for being named IPRH fellow for Academic Year 20-21! The fellowship "will enable advanced graduate students to develop their dissertations or research projects related to the broad theme of “The Global and Its Worlds” and...
Assistant Professor, Jenny Davis has been named Helen Corley Petit Scholar for AY20-21
2020-02-13 - Join us in congratulating Anthropology Assistant Professor, Jenny L. Davis, for being named Helen Corley Petit Scholar for the academic year 2020-21! The award is given annually for newly-tenured faculty members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, based on excellence in teaching and...
Professor Jane Desmond of Anthropology Writes for Scientific American about the Global Donkey Crisis
2020-02-13 - Anthropology Professor, Jane Desmond has been featured on Scientific American. Her article describes the significance of donkeys for more than half a billion people accross the world, but also recounts the heartbreaking abuse and exploitation of these very special animals. She also urges...
Anthropology in the News
2020-01-31 - Illinois PhD alumnus, Michelle Johnson, writes in the News-Gazette about her graduate experience with her mentor, Professor Emeritus Alma Gottlieb. Johnson, who is currently an associate professor at Bucknell University, chose to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after...
Anthropology Professor Participates in Team to Create Game-Based Virtual Archaeology Lab
2020-01-29 - University of Illinois Anthropology Professor Laura Shackelford participates in team that has created Virtual Archaeology, a virtual reality lab which creates an immersive, in-depth archaeological field school experience on campus! The interdisciplinary team, besides Professor Shackelford, is...
Congratulations and Thanks to Anthropology Professor Jenny Davis!
2020-01-09 - On January 2nd 2020 the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation sent an announcement to the entire campus community about plans to develop and coordinate activities relating to the federal law known as NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act)....
Open Labs Day 2019
2019-12-18 - What do anthropology labs look like? How do researchers in anthropology spend their lab time? What artifacts will you find there and how can you interact with them? The Colloquium and Intellectual Community Committee and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-...
2020 Roberts Award goes to Professor Christopher C. Fennell
2019-11-18 - Professor Christopher C. Fennell is the recipient of the 2020 Daniel G. Roberts Award for Excellence in Public Historical Archaeology from The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). The award recognizes Dr. Fennell's "commitment to public...