2022-10-24
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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...
- 2022-09-19 - Every summer, about 35,000 to 55,000 farmworkers migrate or transition to agriculture in Illinois. They endure extreme poverty, without access to healthcare, and with no choice about where to live or work. The Agricultural Safety and Health Center in Chicago will be the newest center of about ten in the entire country. It will be made possible through a $6 million grant from the ...
- 2022-09-11 - Anthropology undergraduate student interned this past summer with the Indigenous Languages on the Move Collective, led by professor Korinta Maldonado. Jorge was able to work with the revitalization language branch. His internship was supported by the Liebman Engaged Anthropology Award. Jorge talks about his experience and shares pictures in...
- 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!