We've added some NEW courses for Fall 2025! ANTH 374 is the Anthropology of Science and Technology. This course examines science as a cultural system and is beneficial for students interested in how scientific knowledge, institutions, and practices intersect with ideas like rationality,...

Join the Illinois Department of Anthropology in congratulating our Spring 2025 Graduates! This is a remarkable accomplishment and you leave an enduring mark on our academic community. As we celebrate the end of this chapter, we look forward to witnessing the impact you will continue to make in the...

The lecture Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The Case of Roma People in Europe was given by Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache on April 10, 2025, with the UIUC European Union Center. It explores the different ways anti-Roma racism...

On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and...

Congratulations to the Illinois Anthropology faculty and graduate students who made the Fall 2024 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in teaching Anthropology and Museum Studies courses! Abing, J TA 104*Bishop, K 220Calhoun, K 399David, L 441Desmond, J 375 & 498Evans, L TA 220Garcia, I TA...

The Patricia O'Brien Award will be presented this spring to the students who submit a superior undergraduate anthropology paper. Any undergraduate anthropology major or minor is eligible to enter. This year, the award includes a prize of $1500 for each of the two winners. Papers will be judged...

We are looking for a Graduation Speaker for the Spring 2025 Sociology, Anthropology, and Interdisciplinary Studies* Convocation Ceremony. If interested: Please contact Felix Fuenty (fuenty2@illinois.edu) if interested by March 14, 2025. Draft of speech must be emailed to Felix Fuenty by March 24th...

The Spring 2025 Sociology, Anthropology, and Interdisciplinary Studies Convocation Ceremony is Saturday, May 17, 2025 5:30 PM CST in the Virginia Theatre (203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, IL). This ceremony is intended for students who earned degrees in August 2024, December 2024, and May 2025 and...

Alana Ackerman (Anthropology), a current HRI Graduate Fellow, explores how the violence of war extends across international borders, shaping spaces and moments of supposed peace and refuge in the Global South. Read more about her project on the HRI Inquiry blog: ...

Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. David partnered with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to create a fully functional, user-friendly online tool for African and African American genealogy and the Illinois Family Roots Pilot Program....