2019-11-18
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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
- 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...