09/19/2022 - 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...
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09/11/2022 - 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...
09/05/2022 - 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...
09/01/2022 - 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...
09/01/2022 - Earlier in the summer, Professor Laura Shackelford of Anthropology...
08/29/2022 - 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...
08/22/2022 - Congratulations to Dr Petra Jelinek for her promotion this summer to Senior Lecturer!
08/22/2022 - 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...
08/22/2022 - Anthropology doctoral student Breanna Escamilla spent the summer working with community partner Driven to Reach Excellence & Academic Achievement for...
08/11/2022 - At a time of extinction crisis for the world's 521 primate species, Anthropology Professor Emeritus Paul A. Garber and his collaborators publish important research that compares geographic patterns...
06/29/2022 - In a new piece for the Illinois News, Professor Lisa Lucero is writing about the challenges and special considerations of doing archaeological work against currents of development in Belize....
06/28/2022 - Anthropology Assistant Professor, Dr Erin Riggs is giving a talk Thursday, June 30 at 2:30-4:00pm UK time (8:30-10:00am CST) titled "Is ‘Displacement’ Debilitating? An Archaeology of Post-...
06/13/2022 - A recent article in the Yearbook of Biological Anthropology highlights sepsis's unequal effect on Black, Indigenous and...
05/24/2022 - Join us in congratulating Professor Kathryn Clancy for earning the Provost's Distinguished Promotion Award...
05/19/2022 - Professor Laura Shackelford's research in the Annamite Mountains of Laos is shedding light to mystery. She and collaborator Fabrice Demeter, a paleoanthropologist at the Lundbeck Foundation...
