2024-04-05
- Brian Graves, one of the UCIMC’s winter programming interns and a second-year PhD student at UIUC, writes about the collaboration between Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. LaKisha David and Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) on supporting the the use of genetic genealogy by African Americans to reconnect with genetic relatives disrupted by the trans-atlantic slave trade....
2024-04-01 - Join the Illinois Anthropology LEAD Scholars Program for a discussion on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and Forensics. The presentations will feature Illinois NAGPRA Program Officer Krystiana Krupa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. LaKisha David, and Doctoral Candidate of Anthropology Aimée Carbaugh. This event is open to all. Food will be provided.
2024-03-28 - Some political figures seek to remove references to slavery from the study of American history, adding to the vast knowledge gaps that stem from the transatlantic slave trade. To better understand these histories, scholars and individuals are turning to genetic genealogy to discover and retrace descendant-family lineages. In a recent paper published in the journal American Anthropologist,...
2024-03-21 - Check out our latest undergraduate newsletter ✨ https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/14/1480086814.html
2024-03-12 - Are you graduating from Illinois Anthropology? Then REGISTER NOW for the Sociology, Anthropology, and Interdisciplinary Studies Convocation Ceremony! Scan the QR code to register or visit the registration link here.
2024-03-04 - Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology Affiliate faculty Dr. Maryam Kashani for being named a 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholar! The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. Read about Dr. Kashani and the 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholar cohort ...
2024-02-29 - Assistant Professor LaKisha T. David has collaborated with Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons on a house resolution to support people of African descent learn more about their ancestral family history through DNA testing. On February 7, 2024, the resolution received a 7-to-4 vote in committee. Ammons said she expects the bill could be voted on in the House of Representatives in the next...
2024-02-26 - Illinois Anthropology graduate students Mckenzie Macon and Abbie Houkes presented recently at the 2024 American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting. Current Illinois Anthropology faculty and students were also able to connect with graduate program alumni!
2024-02-23 - Apply for the honor to be the student speaker at our unit convocation! You must be a graduating major in one of the following departments: African American Studies Anthropology Asian American Studies Latina/Latino Studies Computer Science + Anthropology Gender and Women’s Studies Sociology If selected, you will get your academic regalia for free and front row seats for your...
2024-02-23 - The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2024–25 academic year. The theme for the year is “Think Again...” Congratulations to...
2024-02-21 - Join us in congratulating Dr. Susan Frankenberg and colleagues for winning the Chancellor’s Call to Action Initiative Award for their proposal “Educating the Public about Injustice: Visitors’ Experiences to Holocaust Museums“. Read more about the awards here: https://...
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.