2023-04-09
- Anthropology celebrates this year's award recipients from the Humanity Research Institute! Join us in congratulating:
Alana Ackerman for receiving a graduate prize for “I Hope They Don’t Find Me Here”: Persecution, Encuentros, and Refuge Across Borders in the Global South,” submitted for ANTH 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professors Andrew Orta and...
2023-02-05 - Anthropology Assistant Professor, Dr Jessica Brinkworth, collaborated with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District for an art show that teaches generations of students about the spread of infectious diseases. The show was based on end-of-semester projects from Dr Brinkworth's evolutionary immunology class. Read Dr Brinkworth's account of the event at...
2023-01-13 - UIUC faculty and students, including the Department of Anthropology, Department of African American Studies, Profs. Gerald McWorter, Kate Williams, and Christopher Fennell have significantly contributed for the last two decades to the establishment of the New Philadelphia National Historic Site as the newest national park. The park is commemorating the history of early-19th century Black pioneers...
2023-01-13 - Congratulations to Assistant Professor Erin Riggs on achieving a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for her historical archaeology research project “An Archaeology of Refugee Resettlement.”
2022-12-29 - In a recent podcast with Story Collider, Dr Jessica Brinworth, Assistant Professor with the Department of Anthropology talks about how gardening helped her both address lab waste from single-use plastic, and her own battle with research burnout and imposter syndrome...- 2022-12-07 - Dr. Nedra K. Lee from the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Dr. Richard Paul Benjamin from the International Slavery Museum and University of Liverpool, and our very own...
2022-11-28 - The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology recently announced the Center for Indigenous Science will attempt to ask "questions of importance to Indigenous peoples, and taught to the next generation of scientists, with the hope of transforming how predominately white science is thought about and practiced." Two anthropology faculty members, Professor Ripan S. Malhi and Associate...- 2022-11-16 - Eighteen Illinois undergraduate students from Dr Andrew Orta's ANTH 103 - Anthropology in a Changing World course won the Public Anthropology Awards from the Center for Public Anthropology! To win the awards among more than 1000 entries from undergraduates across the US, our students submitted a short story involving 'how two people of opposing perspectives on the topic of...
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- 2022-10-21 - Congratulations to Anthropology Associate Professor, Dr Jenny Davis, for being named Conrad Humanities Scholar for 2022! According to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announcement, "the Conrad Humanities Scholars...
- 2022-10-21 - Assistant professor Dr Jessica Brinkworth has co-authored an article in the journal Nature on the evolution of immune genes associated with infectious diseases, especially the second pandemic of the plague, known as Black Death. The pandemic constitutes the greatest mortality event recorded in human history, killing 30-50% of the population in Africa and Eurasia. The study explores how...
- 2022-10-19 - Congratulations to Professor Virginia Dominguez for receiving the 2022 Wilbur Cross Medal Award for Outstanding Work and Service. Dominguez was awarded Yale's highest alumnae honor on Oct. 10th, 2022.
- 2022-10-17 - Dr. George Calfas', Anthropology alumni writing is featured in Illinois News for his contribution to a Met Exhibit entitled “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.” The exhibit features a stoneware vessel that Dr. Calfas had excavated during a UofI field school at Edgefield County, South Carolina, and focuses on enslaved potters' production. Here is a...
- 2022-10-02 - "Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Join co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, The Met; Ethan Lasser, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Jason Young, University of Michigan, to go inside "Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina" and...
- 2022-09-19 - Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Krystal A. Smalls for receiving a named position as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar! The position comes with financial support for her work. In the announcement...