News 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! New Publications from Dr. Starkweather and Dr. Álvarez Velasco Assistant Professor Dr. Katie Starkweather is first author on a new article in Social Science & Medicine called “Impacts of women’s work and childcare on child illness among Bangladeshi Shodagor communities.” Assistant Professor… Summer Accomplishments Welcome back from summer break! Many of our community members have had incredible accomplishments over the last few months. Here are the highlights. Professor Brian Bauer was recognized by the City of Cusco… Graduate Student Rosa Varillas Awarded Armour Graduate Student Fellowship PhD student Rosa Varillas has been awarded the Armour Graduate Student Fellowship at the Field Museum for the 2024/2025 academic year. She will use the time to complete analyses of survey and excavation… Graduate Student Susan Monge Awarded NSF Grant PhD student Susan Monge has been awarded an NSF DDRIG for her dissertation entitled “Insight into the Process of Animal Domestication and Adaptation.” Congratulations to Susan! Dr. Bauer, Dr. Rabie, Dr. Sacks, and Dr. Álvarez Velasco Granted Creative Activity Awards The UIC Awards for Creativity Activity have been announced and we have several winners! Dr. Brian Bauer: “The Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire” Dr. Kareem Rabie: “Everywhere in the World there is… End-of-Semester Graduate Student Accomplishments As the semester draws to an end, we want to inform everyone of the incredible honors some of our graduate students have received this week. Award for Graduate Research: PhD student Sravanthi Dasari… Dr. Rabie Named Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow Dr. Kareem Rabie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been announced as an Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. Dr. Rabie will be working on a project titled “Everywhere… Dr. Bedi Honored with LAS Distinguished Professorship Please join us in congratulating Dr. Tarini Bedi on her new appointment as LAS Distinguished Professor! This award was established in 2006 to recognize exceptional faculty members for their significant and sustained intellectual scholarship in… Multiple Accomplisments from Graduate Student Themal Ellawala Recently, UIC Anthropology PhD student Themal Ellawala has had two articles accepted for publication, won a fellowship, and was interviewed for a special series on Indian marriage equality. Themal’s articles are “Revisiting Austerity:… Dr. Bauer Featured on "History Fuzz" Podcast Dr. Brian Bauer was recently featured on Episode #7 of “History Fuzz,” a podcast hosted by Ashley Cowie where researchers discuss ancient societies and their relationships to the skies. In the episode, Dr.… Dr. Bauer Publishes Book On Wari Dr. Brian Bauer co-authored a book with Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz called “El Señor de Vilcabamba y el enclave wari de Espíritu Pampa.” The book examines a large village and a series of… Dr. Starkweather Publishes Article in PNAS Dr. Katie Starkweather has co-authored a publication in PNAS titled “Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters.” ABSTRACT: While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower,… Graduate Student Sonia Saxon Awarded Fellowship UIC Anthropology graduate student Sonia Saxon has been awarded a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Place Fellowship, which is a virtual program run out of UIUC aiming to teach students how to… OBITUARY - Emeritus Professor Jim Phillips We regret to report that UIC Anthropology Emeritus Professor Dr. Jim Phillips passed away on February 9. A proud North Side Chicagoan, Dr. Phillips was a Professor at UIC until he retired and… Three Graduate Students Present at Midwest Andean Meeting Three UIC Anthropology graduate students presented at the 50th Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Ann Arbor, Michigan last weekend. “Analyzing Metals from the Yaguachi Chiefdom” by Maria Isabel… Graduate Student Dipti Sherchan Awarded Fellowship UIC Anthropology PhD student Dipti Sherchan has been awarded a Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship by the University of Michigan. Dipti will spend the next year in Ann Arbor working on her research… Dr. Feinman Publishes Article in "Frontiers in Human Dynamics" MacArthur Curator of Anthropology at The Field Museum Dr. Gary Feinman has co-authored a new publication in Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Institutions and Collective Action titled “New views on price-making markets and the… Three Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships for International Research Three UIC anthropology PhD students have been awarded the Graduate College’s new Fellowships for International Research. These funds are designed to help graduate students do extended work overseas, providing cover for both research… Dr. Cveček Publishes Article in "Anthropology Today" Dr. Sabina Cveček, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at The Field Museum, has published an article entitled “Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century” in Anthropology Today. The article is open-access and… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
