News 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… Dr. Rabie Featured on "Macrodose" Podcast Dr. Kareem Rabie was featured on the “Macrodose” podcast hosted by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe along with fellow anthropologist Dr. Laleh Khalili (University of Exeter) in a roundtable discussion of the political economy… Dr. Gül Publishes Reflection in "American Ethnologist" Dr. Zeynel Gül, a Bridge-to-Faculty Post-Doctoral Scholar specializing in sociocultural anthropology, has published a reflection in American Ethnologist, the flagship journal of the AAA’s American Ethnological Society as part of the “Data/Bigdata in… Dr. Solinis Casparius Awarded NSF Grant Dr. Rodrigo Solinis Casparius has been awarded an NSF Senior Archaeology Award in the amount of $307,769. The project, which is co-directed by Dr. Christopher Fisher at CSU, is titled “Becoming Purepecha: Genesis… Dr. Álvarez Velasco Publishes Article in "Geopolitics" Dr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco has published an article in Geopolitics entitled “Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of the US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador.” Dr. Reddy Publishes Article in "American Anthropologist" Dr. Gayatri Reddy has published an article in the prestigious journal American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The articled is titled “‘Our Blood is Becoming White’: Race, Religion, and… CRIM Featured in UIC Today Article The Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM), which is affiliated with the UIC Anthropology Department, has been featured in an article in UIC Today. Check out the article below! Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
