06/09/2020 - As a department committed to addressing systemic racism, state sanctioned violence and other structures of oppression, the University of Illinois Department of Anthropology explicitly condemns the...
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05/22/2020 - Anthropology Assistant Professor Jessica F Brinkworth gave two talks as part of an introductory seminar on COVID-19 for the College of Engineering. You can watch them here: ...
05/12/2020 - Department of Anthropology Professor, Jane Desmond wrote about protesting in the time of a pandemic in an Op Ed piece that was published in Public Seminar. She explores there the balance between '...
05/11/2020 - Dr Maldonado, this year's recipient of the J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff talks about her teaching, research and activism. Learn more about Dr Maldonado's...
05/08/2020 - Anthropology Professor Helaine Silverman reflects LAS News about her research and teaching on the history of the English village Eyam. Its inhabitants self-quarantined for more than 14 months in 1665...
05/07/2020 - The Department of Gender and Women's Studies awarded doctoral candidate Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza with a GWS Outstanding Student Award. Atienza was nominated for their collaborative...
04/28/2020 - This year's recipient of the J. Frederick Miller Award for Distinguished Service by a UI Faculty/Staff is Dr. Korinta Maldonado Goti. Dr. Kora Maldonado's work on indigenous movements, human...
04/11/2020 - Can the great apes get SARS-CoV-2? Is the disease airborne? Can wearing cloth masks protect you? What about hairdryers? Can they stop an infection? Assistant Professor Jessica F Brinkworth and the...
04/09/2020 - What does anthropological research and analysis in the time of COVID-19 offer? The following are only a few examples of the fascinating, interdisciplinary perspectives that anthropology brings...
04/08/2020 - Please, join us in congratulating Anthropology Graduate Students Brenda Gisela Garcia and Jeongsu Shin for making it to the Semifinals of the 2020 Image of Research Competition. It is the third...
03/09/2020 - On Thursday, March 5, Department of Anthropology faculty, students and friends gathered at the Author's Corner of the Illini Bookstore for a very special event: the collaborative celebration of...
03/03/2020 - In the fall of 2019, Dr. Jeff Martin instructed the undergraduate course Anthropology 103 “Anthropology in a Changing World”. The course approached the broad question of how an anthropological...
02/26/2020 - Professor Fennell of the Department of Anthropology presented an invited paper on the New Philadelphia Archaeological Project under the tile “Resilience and Racism in a 19th Century American...
02/24/2020 - Brenda is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Legal Humanities at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) for the 2020–21 academic year....
02/24/2020 - Students from the Anthropology Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrated Anthropology Day by reaching out to the community! Part of their activity for the day was a...
