News Dr. Álvarez Velasco Announced as Institute for the Humanities 2025-2026 Faculty Fellow Dr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American & Latino Studies, has been named a Faculty Fellow for the Institute of the Humanities for the 2025-2026 academic year. Her project… Dr. Sacks Wins Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching Dr. Lita Sacks, Clinical Assistant Professor specializing in Biological Anthropology, has been awarded UIC’s Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Silver Circle Award has been given every year since 1966 to… Maria Isabel Guevara Duque Awarded Field Museum Women in Science Fellowship PhD student Maria Isabel (Maisa) Guevara Duque has been awarded the 2025-2026 Women in Science Fellowship at the Field Museum. This award will support her doctoral research project entitled “Consumption, Circulation, and Transition… Five Anthropology Graduate Students Awarded Funds from Graduate College Five of our incredible anthropology graduate students have been awarded funds from internal competitions at the UIC Graduate College. Fellowship for International Research Corey Bowen – The Politics of Watery Places: Archaeological… Dr. Bandama Publishes Two Articles UIC Anthropology Lecturer and Assistant Curator in African Anthropology at The Field Museum of Natural History Dr. Foreman Bandama has two new publications. One, published in Journal of Heritage Management, discusses indigeneity and… Dr. Starkweather and Dr. Ragsdale Publish Article Assistant Professor Dr. Katie Starkweather and Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Haley Ragsdale have published a new article in The Annals of Human Biology titled “High wet-bulb temperatures, time allocation, and diurnal patterns of breastfeeding… Multiple Accomplishments from Graduate Student Ben Schaefer Graduate student Ben Schaefer recently co-authored an article in American Journal of Biological Anthropology called “Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology” and was interviewed by Dr. Kristina Killgrove for a LiveScience… Dr. Álvarez Velasco Publishes Book Assistant Professor Dr. Álvarez Velasco recently published a book she co-coordinated with her colleague Amarela Varela- Huerta. Luchas migrantes en tiempos pandémicos y de crisis: una mirada desde las Américas (2025) features seven… Recent Publications from Dr. Liechty Professor Mark Liechty has several recent publications. First, Dr. Liechty co-edited “Nepal in the Long 1950s,” which according to Dr. Liechty has “created something of a stir in Nepal academic circles because it… Dr. Roosevelt Publishes Book Chapter Professor Dr. Anna Roosevelt has published a new chapter in the peer-reviewed volume Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas from the University of Florida Press. The chapter… Dr. Solinis-Casparius Awarded Grant Assistant Professor Dr. Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius has received the John Nuveen Fun Internationalization Grant to help support his Mesoamerican Studies Collaboration Program (MSCP) between Universidad de Guadalajara and UIC. Two Graduate Students Awarded IRRPP DRGs Two of our graduate students just won Dissertation Research Grants from the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy! Thermal Ellawala received funds for to study ‘When Ephemera Bind: On Negative &… Dr. Gül Publishes Two Articles Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Zeynel Gül has published two recent publications. The article “Diagnostic Ecologies: Medical Standards, Tinkering, and Worker Health in Turkey,” has been published today in Medical Anthropology Quarterly… Dr. Mouftah Publishes New Book Dr. Nermeen Mouftah’s new book Read in the Name of Your Lord: Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt is now out with the Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa series at… UIC and Field Museum Partnership Featured in News The partnership between the UIC Anthropology Department and the Field Museum, specifically with reference to Day of the Dead celebrations, was recently featured in UIC Today. The article was also picked up by… Dr. Bauer Publishes Book Translation Dr. Brian Bauer and colleagues have published their translation of Martín de Murúa’s 1616 chronicle “The General History of Peru” with University Press of Colorado. This is the first time that this important… Dr. Bedi Awarded Prize for Article LAS Distinguished Professor Dr. Tarini Bedi has been awarded the annual Cultural Horizons Prize by the Society for Cultural Anthropology for her 2023 article “Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air: Gadbad and the Sensate Ecologies… Luis Gomez-Ordonez Publishes Book Chapter UIC Anthropology PhD Student Luis Gomez-Ordonez has just published a co-authored book chapter entitled “Reflections on Decoloniality, Liberation and Community Psychology” which appears in the Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology. You can find… Benjamin Bernard-Herman Wins Wenner-Gren UIC Anthropology PhD student Benjamin Bernard-Herman has been awarded a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to continue his project “Beyond the ethics of ethical consumption: small-scale farmers and the paradoxes of moral markets.” Melanie Kane Receives Award of Merit UIC Anthropology Program Coordinator has been recognized with a 2024 Award of Merit from the Chancellor. This is a huge honor, and extremely well deserved. Congratulations to Melanie! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
