News Rosa Varillas Awarded NSF DDRIG PhD Candidate Rosa Varillas has won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) to support her project entitled “Long Term Expansion of Societal Network.” Dr. Bandama and Colleagues Publish Book UIC Anthropology Lecturer and Assistant Curator in African Anthropology at The Field Museum of Natural History Dr. Foreman Bandama along with Curator Emeritus Dr. John Terrell and their colleagues have published a collaborative… Dr. Hendrickson Publishes Book Chapter Dr. Mitch Hendrickson has co-authored a chapter in the new edited volume “Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective” published by Routledge. The chapter is titled “Place-Making, Fire, and the Praxis of Becoming… Susan Monge Publishes Review Article Anthropology PhD student Susan Monge has co-authored a review article published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, entitled “Historical ecology of the Southern Central American Pacific coast.” Check out the… Dr. Bandama Awarded Large Grant from European Research Council UIC Lecturer of Anthropology and Field Museum Assistant Curator of African Anthropology Dr. Foreman Bandama is a senior researcher on a grant that was recently awarded 2.8 million Euros (~3.26 million US dollars)… Susan Monge Publishes Chapter PhD Candidate Susan Monge has co-authored a chapter in new book “Exploring the history of turkey management and domestication.” The chapter, titled “Turkeys in the far south: evidence from Greater Nicoya,” is co-authored… Dr. Doane Awarded Research Grant Associate Professor Molly Doane has been awarded a grant from the Illinois Mexican & Mexican-American Students Initiative (I-MMAS) and the Coordinación de la Investigación Científica of UNAM for her research project “Food, ethics,… Dr. Hendrickson Publishes Article in "Asian Archaeology" Associate Professor Mitch Hendrickson has published a new article in Asian Archaeology. The article is titled “Loose change? Evaluating the roles of Chinese coins in the Angkorian Khmer Empire.” Dr. Álvarez Velasco on "Diálogos Académicos" Podcast Assistant Professor of Anthropology and LALS Dr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco recently appeared on an episode of the “Diálogos Académicos” podcast about child migration produced by Universidad de Guadalajara. Lukas Kerbyson Awarded UIC Anthropology Graduate Teaching Award Please join us in congratulating Lukas Kerbyson who has received the UIC Department of Anthropology Graduate Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a graduate teaching assistant for academic year 2024-2025… 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… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
