2018-05-13
- On April 20, 2018 Professor of Anthropology Jane Desmond, a specialist in human-animal relations, published an Op Ed on CNN.com highlighting the dangers of the Opioid epidemic for police dogs and new initiatives in law and medicine to help dogs who might be at risk. You can find the full Op Ed titled "Surprising Victims of the Opioid Crisis" here: htttp: www....
- 2018-04-09 - UIUC Anth. Dept Statement: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), as passed in 1990, requires museums and other institutions to follow a process developed for transferring culturally affiliated human remains and associated funerary objects, unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to Indian...
2018-03-07 - Kathryn Clancy, professor of anthropology, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in a hearing devoted to sexual harassment and misconduct in the sciences. The hearing, held by the...- 2018-02-22 - "Both anthropology and computer science majors are problem-solvers by nature, said UIUC's Anthropology Professor Jessica Greenberg, director of undergraduate studies. They bring different skills to analyze fundamental challenges such as: What makes us human? How can technology improve social life and what are its ethical challenges?" Learn more about the article, "UI's 'CS + X'...
- 2018-02-10 - The faculty of the Department of Anthropology stands in solidarity with GEO and with our graduate students. Our graduate students are a vital part of the research, teaching and community service missions of this institution. As instructors they inspire, engage and support our undergraduate community. As researchers they collaborate on and produce cutting edge work that pushes our fields...
- 2018-02-02 - TIMOTHY PAUKETAT | Anthropology Professor, Associate Director of Research, Illinois State Archaeological Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new exhibit at the U. of I.’s Spurlock Museum offers a glimpse of the artistic and spiritual legacy of the American Indian people who built Cahokia, a great, thousand-year-old urban center on the Mississippi River. “Cahokia’s...
2017-10-26 - Johanson (BA, '66, anthropology) spotted the fragment of an elbow sticking from the ground, and he immediately recognized that it came from a human skeleton. A careful dig followed, and Johanson and his team wound up uncovering 40 percent of a skeleton that was approximately 3.2 million years old—the oldest and most complete skeleton ever discovered...- 2017-10-05 - We the undersigned faculty members of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign condemn the Trump Administration's recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). We recognize that this decision is likely to criminalize many of our already vulnerable students, and we oppose that. Each and every student...
2017-07-21 - Allie says "We really had a great group of 15 students: 9-12th graders from across Illinois. I really tried to give the students hands on experience in 4 field anthropology. We worked with forces of evolution, dog domestication, genetics, human paleontology, tool use, forensic scene recovery, biological profiles, cultural object analysis, museum studies and so much more! It was a great...
2017-07-14 - Nicole Cox wins the Graduate Student Paper Prize at 2017 Central States Anthropological Society Meetings for her paper "Troubling Tradition: Questions of Authority, Costume and Embodiment in Kathak"
2017-07-06 - Dr. David W. Plath, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign new documentary film So Long Asleep; waking the ghosts of a war has been selected for screening in October during the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York’s...
2017-06-27 - Read more about this book at the University of Illinois Press page for this book. Chapters include: Part I. Whose "America"? Whose "Anti-Americanism"? 1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West-) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement ; 2. What We Talk about When We...- 2017-06-09 - The American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) have selected Dr. Lyle Konigsberg as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. This is a five-year position that also provides a seat on the AAPA Executive Committee.
- 2017-06-06 - The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has elected Dr. Kathryn Clancy to the Biological Anthropology Seat on the AAA Executive Board. This is a three year term. Congratulations Kate on being elected to the leadership of the Association!
- 2017-05-03 - Of the hundreds of people who die trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico each year, those with indigenous backgrounds are less likely to be identified than those with more European ancestry, a new analysis reveals. Read more about Dr. Cris Hughes' work here.