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.
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...