2024-02-15
- Our next installment of the undergraduate newsletter is out! Read the February 15, 2024 newsletter here: https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/31/1049982131.html
2024-02-06 - Please join the Illinois State Archaeological Survey for their fourth annual spring virtual speaker series, the Collaborative Research Speaker Series, hosted by the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s Collaborative Research Engagement Section and the Office of the State Archaeologist. This year, the series focuses on collaborative research...
2024-02-02 - Congratulations to Dr. Jane Desmond who will be honored at the upcoming Provost’s Celebrating Academic Excellence Awards dinner for her achievements in 2023, which include the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Bioethics and The British Academy Visiting Research Fellowship.
2024-01-31 - Join us in congratulating Illinois Anthropology faculty Lisa Lucero for her publication ‘Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way’ in Scientific American. Read the piece here.
2024-01-30 - Congratulations to Dr. Ambrose who was nominated and selected for the Edward Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholars Program at Yale for the Spring semester 2024.
2024-01-29 - Are you struggling to get your work done? Join other students for our weekly work-in study tables starting tomorrow in Davenport Hall! Our weekly work-in study tables are hosted by Dr. Elise Kramer with snacks and drinks!
2024-01-26 - Congratulations to Dr. Clancy for her book PERIOD: The True Story of Menstruation (2023) for winning the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and for being selected as a Scientific American...
2024-01-25 - Interested in an archaeological field school this summer? Join Dr. Lisa Lucero on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 4 PM for a 1-hour information session on zoom to learn more about the Exploring Ancestral Maya Neighborhoods Field School during Summer 2024. Scan the QR Code to register to attend this 1-hour information session!
2024-01-25 - Graduate students with higher ed teaching experience, Victoria Fields and Nicole Cox, share their stories and strategies from time in roles of an Instructor at UIUC. They connect much of their work to the Engaged Pedagogy of bell hooks, and it’s a helpful and hopeful conversation about connecting and leading classrooms spaces. Victoria holds credit for our inaugural email to the podcast, so do...
2024-01-22 - Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology doctoral students Yasmine Adams and Omar Agustin Hernandez on their HRI Interseminars graduate fellowships! The fellows join three faculty conveners, Erik McDuffie (...
2024-01-22 - Join the Illinois College of Law on Monday, January 22, from 3 to 4:30 PM for a panel titled Lumpers and Splitters: A Discussion of Comparative Research Methods in Law and Social Science. The panel features Illinois Anthropology faculty Jessica Greenberg, Jason Mazzone (College of Law), Illinois Anthropology doctoral student Cesar Ramirez, and Jacqueline Ross (College of Law). The panel is...
2024-01-19 - Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology doctoral student Katie Maag on their successful public lecture at the Urbana Public Library! Thank you to the East Central Illinois Archaeological Society for their sponsorship.
2024-01-16 - Are you interested in non-profit work as an anthropology student? Join this panel featuring 2023 Anthropology graduate Chloe Chan to hear how Chan applied their anthropology degree towards a career in non-profit, as well as other LAS graduates.
2024-01-15 - Join the Urbana Public Library for a talk on the 'Ghost Towns of Wyoming' by Illinois Anthropology doctoral student Kathryn Maag on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 7 PM.
2024-01-09 - Humans dump an estimated 10 million tons of plastic annually into the ocean. Although preventative action needs to happen at the government level, Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. Jessica Brinkworth pens this piece for The Guardian on the ways that individuals can choose to reduce, reuse, or refuse plastics....