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-...
- 2018-10-23 - "Nancy Blomberg, who as a curator at the Denver Art Museum treated American Indian artworks as aesthetic creations, not artifacts, and championed the artists who made them, died on Sept. 2 at her home in Breckenridge, Colo. She was 72..." New York Times article: ...
- 2018-10-23 - Dr. Stanley H. Ambrose contributed to research published in Nature. See “Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands”. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0456-9
- 2018-10-18 - October 18, 2018 U. Illinois News Bureau "CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Gerald McWorter grew up hearing stories about the family patriarch who bought his way out of slavery and founded the town of New Philadelphia in western Illinois – the first known U.S. town platted and legally registered by a black man. When McWorter visited the family farm, he saw the false wall in the dirt basement, and he...
- 2018-09-26 - Dr. Gilberto Rosas "Fugitive Work: On the Criminal Possibilities of Anthropology." featured on Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, September 26, 2018. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1529-fugitive-work-on-the-criminal-possibilities-of-anthropology...
2018-09-18 - Congratulations to Floyd Mansberger, recipient of the Illinois Archaeological Survey's 2018 Charles Bareis Distinguished Service Award! Floyd has made outstanding contributions to Illinois archaeology and in civic engagement with broad, public audiences to enhance our citizens’ appreciation of Illinois history and archaeology. The Department of Anthropology was a primary sponsor of the 62d Annual...- 2018-09-14 - Read our Fall 2018 Newsletter!
- 2018-08-10 - Scholars from across the world came to Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute to delve deeper into the implications and discoveries from their studies of human-animal relations. READ MORE