Congratulations to Illinois Anthropology graduate student Abigail Houkes on being selected as a participant for the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program! Read more about the program and the 2024 participants...

Today we are spotlighting spring 2024 graduate Kathrina Aben! Aben is graduating with a Ph.D. in Anthropology, Historical Archaeology. Read below to learn about her dissertation research, some favorite anthropology classes, and what she is up to in her career!

Today we are spotlighting spring 2024 graduate, Wendy Haro! As we wish Wendy congratulations on the closing of this chapter, read below to read her reflections on her time at Illinois and with Illinois Anthropology ✨

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...