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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 American consumers, the third largest importing consumer group of donkey skin, to stand up against...

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 reading Professor Gottlieb's co-edited book, 'Black Magic.'  Appreciation and gratitude met her...

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 comprised by researchers, students and educators, including Professor David Huang from Educational...

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). For the past two years, as the Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research, Assistant Professor...

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-Champaign organized a special event to answer these and many more questions about anthropology in...

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 scholarship in New Philadelphia and his work on behalf of anti-racism scholarship and education in historical...

2019-10-22 - It’s well known that traumatic experiences can have lifelong impacts on health and well-being. But it’s possible that those effects can last longer than a single lifetime. A new study asks whether the effects of trauma have been passed down genetically in Tlingit families in Hoonah. Read More about this news article featuring Dr. Malhi's Research on...

2019-10-16 - A new book by University of Illinois professor Andrew Orta studies the culture of contemporary business education and the MBA degree through the lens of a professional anthropologist. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer   Read More  

2019-10-11 - Anthropology Professor Jane Desmond's students in upper-level course 'The Cultures of Nature' (ANTH 375) received a special visit this week by the U of I Wildlife Clinic, which is part of the College of Veterinary Medicine. They discussed human conflicts with wildlife, here, in our community and enlisted the help of several wildlife 'Ambassadors' in order to highlight the span of their work....

2019-10-08 -   Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow Michelle Rodrigues and Professor Kathryn B. H. Clancy of Anthropology investigate the effects of parental relationships on peer relationships in adolescent girls.   Their new study, which was published in the American Journal of Primatology, concluded that the quality of maternal relationships affects female friendships in...

2019-10-03 - The Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Archaeology with a target start date of August 16, 2020.   The Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. Faculty in the College create knowledge,...

2019-09-20 -   "The Search For Missing American Soldiers Decades After The Korean War" published on Sept 8, 2019. Or copy and paste: https://youtu.be/Zh4BMoDN_AA  

2019-09-17 -   Drag is that wonderfully queer, effervescent performance artform that brings to life the fantasy of transformation and the joy of play. Drag, as we understand it today, is almost always connected to the LGBTQ community, and it has held an important role in queer culture, well before the advent of the tv show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Feminist philosophers and scholars of performance...

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