Today we are spotlighting Sara Kiel, a spring 2024 graduate AND one of our incredible social media managers! Read below to see what brought Sara to anthropology, some insights into her Illinois favorites, and what she is up to next. 

It is always bittersweet to say goodbye to graduates as they begin the next chapter of their lives so we're taking some time to highlight the incredible Illinois Anthropology undergraduate and graduate students that graduated this spring 2024. Read below to learn about Rachel Taylor, a newly...

Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology graduate students Arielle Reich, Grace Shaw, Breanna Escamilla, and Joseph Coyle for being awarded Teaching Certificates from the Center for Innovation, Teaching, and Learning at Illinois! ...

Congratulations to the MUSE 389/589: Case Studies in Community Museums students on their exhibition Welcome to the Illinois Distributed Museum: Empowerment through Innovation showing through May in the Main Library's Marshall Gallery .  One of several projects carried...

Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. Chris Fennell alongside Series Editors Nedra K. Lee, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts (link) and Richard Paul Benjamin, PhD, International Slavery Museum and University of Liverpool...

Congratulations to the Fall 2023 Anthropology Teachers Ranked as Excellent! * BISHOP, K ANTH 220 and ANTH 315 * GREENBERG,J ANTH 515 * HERNANDEZ,O TA ANTH 104 MARTIN, J ANTH 485 SABOOWALA, S TA ANTH 441 SMALLS, K ANTH 512 TAYLOR, R TA ANTH 105 FRANKENBERG, S MUSE 200 and MUSE 500

Brian Graves, one of the UCIMC’s winter programming interns and a second-year PhD student at UIUC, writes about the collaboration between Illinois Anthropology faculty Dr. LaKisha David and Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) on supporting the the use of genetic genealogy by...

Join the Illinois Anthropology LEAD Scholars Program for a discussion on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and Forensics. The presentations will feature Illinois NAGPRA Program Officer Krystiana Krupa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. LaKisha David, and...

Some political figures seek to remove references to slavery from the study of American history, adding to the vast knowledge gaps that stem from the transatlantic slave trade. To better understand these histories, scholars and individuals are turning to genetic genealogy to discover and retrace...

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