2019-10-08
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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...
- 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...