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.
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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...
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...- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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: ...
- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...