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Aldo Foe and Kendall Hills feature in UIC's 2020 Images of Research Exhibit
Congrats to Aldo, who placed 2nd, and Kendall, who was a finalist, in this year’s graduate student Images of Research Exhibit competition here at UIC. You can see their images here.
Corey Bowen awarded Graduate Student Scholarship
Congratulations to Corey for being selected by the PaleoWest Foundation to receive one of their Graduate Student Scholarships for 2020.
New publication for Elizabeth Obregón
Congrats to Elizabeth on the publication of her article, “Así son los cubanos: narratives of race and ancestry” in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.
New Publication for Alize Arican
Congrats to Alize for her paper “Behind the Scaffolding: Manipulations of Time, Delays, and Power in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul” which was just published in City & Society. You can find an Early View of…
Beth Grávalos going to the Field Museum
More good news for Beth, who will start a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Field Museum in June 2021 on a project entitled “Crafting the Casma State: An Examination of Ceramic Production and…
Themal Ellawalla wins Best Paper Award
Hearty congrats to Themal who won the Center for South Asian Studies Award for Best Paper at the 2020 School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Hawaiʻi…
Kevin Suemnicht awarded Wenner-Gren
Congratulations to Kevin for winning a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from Wenner-Gren for his project entitled ‘”There is no Word for What We Must Become”: Social Movement in Southern Illinois’.
Katy Dye goes to the Institute for the Humanities
Congrats to Katy Dye, who was chosen to be one of three Resident Graduate Scholars in the Institute for the Humanities for 2020-21. She will be focusing on her dissertation project “New Urban…
Beth Grávalos goes to Washington
Congratulations to Beth for being awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship in Pre-columbian Studies for her project “Tracking Recuay Traditions: Prehispanic Craft Learning and Social Networks in Highland Ancash, Peru.”  She will be…
A New Podcast to Start Your Year!
Congratulations to Alize Arıcan for her podcast: Urban Transformation and Resistance in Tarlabaşı: The Politics of a Delayed Construction Project in Istanbul! Way to go, Alize!