2023-11-27
- Join Illinois Anthropology for our Holiday Luncheon on Thursday December 7, 2023 (Reading Day) at 12 Noon PM in Davenport Hall 230.
You may bring a dessert but please note that this is optional.
2023-11-02 - What: Join us in celebrating the launch of the ‘An accessible university means…’ booklet/survey created by the Crip* Internship Group with a screening of the award winning film ‘I Didn’t See You There’ by Reid Davenport! Members of the Crip* Internship will introduce the ‘Instances of Ableism’ survey and ‘An accessible university means…’ booklet, created throughout...
2023-11-02 - Join the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies (HGMS) for their Race, Migration, and Memory Conference today (11/2) and tomorrow (11/3) at 210 Levis Faculty Center. On Friday, an exciting range of speakers from UIUC, University of Birmingham (UK), and other places will address these pressing topics. Illinois Anthropoloy faculty Suzie Telep, Gilberto Rosas, Jessica Greenberg, Ellen...
2023-11-01 - The Off the Beaten Track Summer School offers both budding social scientists and more advanced scholars a rare opportunity to do ethnographic research on an island with 7,000 years of history. The school is held annually on the islet of Gozo, one of the three inhabited islands of the Maltese Archipelago in the heart of the Mediterranean. Participants of the Off the Beaten Track program get...
2023-10-27 - Assistant Professor LaKisha T. David has collaborated with Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons on a new house resolution to help people of African descent learn more about their ancestral family history. On October 23, 2023, the house resolution was officially filed in the Illinois House of Representatives, setting it up for consideration and a future vote by state legislators. See the...
2023-10-19 - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently announced new funding to support communities working to preserve and celebrate their unique cultural heritage. The “State Designated Cultural District” initiative will provide $3 million to selected cultural districts to aid such efforts. Anthropology professor Helaine Silverman, whose work...
2023-10-09 - The Maya built and maintained reservoirs that were in use for more than 1,000 years, writes University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign anthropology professor Lisa Lucero in a perspective in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These reservoirs provided potable water for thousands to tens of...
2023-10-06 - Join us in congratulating anthropology graduate student Sahara Zitlali Vilchis for winning a Center for Indigenous Science scholarship! Vilchis works in Ripan Malhi’s (CIS co-leader/GNDP/GSP/IGOH) Molecular Anthropology Lab where she investigates the diets of individuals from an ancient Native American tribe in the Northern Californian Coast. Read about Sahara and the other awardees...
2023-10-05 - Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. Gilberto Rosas for being selected to co-lead the third Mellon-funded Interseminars Initiative project at the Humanities Research Institute alongside Erik McDuffie (African American Studies and History) and Gisela Sin (Political Science)! Read the full announcement here ➡ go.illinois.edu/...
2023-10-03 - The AAA and CASCA boards reached a decision to remove the session “Let’s Talk about Sex Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology” from the AAA/CASCA 2023 conference program. This decision was based on extensive consultation and was reached in the spirit of respect for our values, in order to ensure the safety and dignity of all of our members, as well as the...
2023-10-02 - At Illinois Anthropology we have incredible faculty and graduate students teaching! Check out the faculty and graduate students who made the Spring 2023 semester CITL List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students: * BISHOP, Kate -...
2023-09-24 - Read this JSTOR Daily News article on a project in which UIUC archaeologists Chris Fennell, George Calfas, Tatiana Niculescu, Rebecca Schumann, Shawn Fields, and UIUC field school students unearthed the early site of 19th century works by African-American potter Dave Drake...
2023-09-22 - Major congratulations to SEAM doctoral student Zoe Doubles for winning the Illinois Archaeological...
2023-09-11 - Graduate students Anena Majumdar, Ella Goulding, Katie Maag, and Hwajung Kim who Professor Helaine Silverman took to New Philadelphia on a "Mythic Mississippi Project" field trip on September 9, 2023.
2023-09-08 - Researchers investigated the relationship between historical traumatic events experienced by Alaska Native communities and epigenetic markers on genes that previous studies have linked to trauma. The new study found a similar pattern among Alaska Native participants, with specific epigenetic differences observed in those who reported experiencing the most intense symptoms of distress when...