2022-09-05
- Clinical Associate Professor Dr Cris Hughes has diligently worked on establishing collaboration with the Illinois State Police. These culminated in State Law of August 2021 which created the Illinois Forensic Science Committee, a body of action to deal with the backlog of mounting forensic evidence in the State, but also issues of emerging forensic policy.
The Committee now holds regular...
- 2022-09-01 - Earlier in the summer, Professor Laura Shackelford of Anthropology received wide media coverage for her discovery in a cave in Laos of remains from the Denisovans, an ancient human group that split from their relatives, the Neanderthals, 400,000 years ago....
- 2022-09-01 - Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Indian American Studies Korinta Maldonado has been working with scholars, students and communities on the preservation of indigenous languages. Towards that effort, she is leading the Indigenous Languages on the Move Collective in Illinois, to help local Maya with learning to read and write Q’anjob’al, and working with interpreters for the community. Their...
- 2022-08-29 - Assistant Professor Jessica Brinkworth of Anthropology has recently given a series of interviews in relation to the upcoming flu season, as well as COVID-19 and monkeypox viruses. You can watch the latest one with CBS News here. In the interview, Dr Brinkworth discusses the...
- 2022-08-22 - On Friday, August 19, LAS LIFTOFF '22, the inaugural event for all LAS first-year students took place in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts! More than 3,000 students from across the US and the world were introduced to LAS and its departments, received gifts and played games. Anthropology and Head of Department Brenda Farnell could not miss the event and once again, its table had the...
- 2022-08-22 - Congratulations to Dr Petra Jelinek for her promotion this summer to Senior Lecturer!
2022-08-22 - Anthropology doctoral student Breanna Escamilla spent the summer working with community partner Driven to Reach Excellence & Academic Achievement for Males (DREAAM). DREAAM takes a trauma-informed approach to empower boys and young men for life success through a program that is 'focused on literacy, STEM, creativity and solution thinking.'...- 2022-08-11 - At a time of extinction crisis for the world's 521 primate species, Anthropology Professor Emeritus Paul A. Garber and his collaborators publish important research that compares geographic patterns of non-human primate biodiversity and human land-use, in order to establish a strong link between protected indigenous land and increased levels of biodiversity. The research was published on...
- 2022-06-29 - In a new piece for the Illinois News, Professor Lisa Lucero is writing about the challenges and special considerations of doing archaeological work against currents of development in Belize. Deforestation for agricultural purposes, she argues, has changed the conditions and affirmed the urgency for excavating ancentral Maya ruins in need of rescue. Read the whole piece...
- 2022-06-28 - Anthropology Assistant Professor, Dr Erin Riggs is giving a talk Thursday, June 30 at 2:30-4:00pm UK time (8:30-10:00am CST) titled "Is ‘Displacement’ Debilitating? An Archaeology of Post-Partition Resettlement in Delhi" Find more info about the event here, and register...
- 2022-06-13 - A recent article in the Yearbook of Biological Anthropology highlights sepsis's unequal effect on Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The authors, Illinois Anthropology Professor Jessica Brinkworth and doctoral student Grace Shaw analyze data to show that the reasons behind those disparities lie in...
- 2022-05-24 - Join us in congratulating Professor Kathryn Clancy for earning the Provost's Distinguished Promotion Award! The award is offered to a small percentage of academics whom the Campus Committee for Promotions and Tenure identifies as "exceptional cases of scholars whose contributions have been...
- 2022-05-19 - Professor Laura Shackelford's research in the Annamite Mountains of Laos is shedding light to mystery. She and collaborator Fabrice Demeter, a paleoanthropologist at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, have uncovered pieces of human remains from the Denisovans, an ancient human group that split from their relatives, the Neanderthals, 400,000 years...
- 2022-05-02 - My name is Christian Hasler, and I am an Anthropology major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I attended the UIUC Sapelo Island Field School of 2021, and here is a little bit about my experience! To get to the island, we drove from Davenport Hall to Dalton, GA, then from Dalton to the Sapelo island ferry. Once we got there, we made ourselves comfortable in the...
- 2022-05-02 - My name is Daniela Gradilla and I am a senior majoring in anthropology with a concentration in archaeology. As many of you know, archaeology students are required to do a field school during their undergrad. I had always wanted to be a part of a field school and to experience what archaeology is all about but with the COVID-19 pandemic, I worried that I wouldn’t have that opportunity. I...