News Dr. Starkweather Co-Edited Special Collection in Journal of Evolutionary Human Sciences Assistant Professor of anthropology Dr. Katie Starkweather has co-edited a special collection in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences called “Gendered Conflict in the Human Family.” You can find the collection here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/collections/gendered-conflict-in-the-human-family. Shilpa Menon and Dipti Sherchan named 2023/2024 Resident Graduate Scholars by UIC Institute for the Humanities UIC Anthropology graduate students Shilpa Menon and Dipti Sherchan have been named Resident Graduate Scholars for the 2023/2024 academic year by the UIC Institute for the Humanities. This program is a one-year appointment… Dr. LaMothe Named 2023/2024 UIC Faculty Fellow by Institute for the Humanities Dr. Mario LaMothe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Black Studies, has been named a Faculty Fellow by the Institute for the Humanities for the 2023/2024 academic year. His research is entitled “Vodou Rich… Alum Dr. Soares Awarded Latin American Studies Association Best Dissertation in Social Science Award Dr. Ana Morais Soares has been awarded the Best Dissertation in Social Science Award (Sergio Buarque de Holanda Prize) presented by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Soares, now… New Article by Dr. Williams in Nature Dr. Sloan Williams is a co-author of a new publication in Nature titled “Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast.” You can find the article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05754-w… Book Review Published by Aishani Khurana Graduate student Aishani Khurana has published a book review of “New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India” in Journal of South Asian Studies. Find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CE9IB5T8A3MWPXPG2MBQ/full?target=10.1080/00856401.2023.2184566 New Article by Dr. Álvarez Velasco Dr. Soledad Álvaraz Velasco has co-authored a new article in Studies in Social Justice entitled “‘A Mass Exodus in Rebellion’ – The Migrant Caravans: A View from the Eyes of Honduran Journalist Inmer… Aishani Khurana's op-ed published in The Indian Express Congratulations to Aishani on the recent publication of her op-ed “Looking Back at Shaheen Bagh” which appeared in The Indian Express, one of India’s top-ranking newspapers. Click here to see the article. Aishani Khurana awarded Fall 2022 AGR Congratulations to Aishani who received an Award for Graduate Research from the Graduate College to conduct fieldwork on her project entitled “Negotiating Religious Violence: Underscoring the (Extra)Ordinary Politics of Muslim Women in Delhi”. Ritu Ghosh wins PGRA from the Graduate College Congrats to Ritu for being awarded one of the Fall Postgraduate Research Awards from the Graduate College to pursue fieldwork on her project “Surrogacy Work and the Law in India”. Katie Starkweather has a new paper in Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society Congratulations to Katie Starkweather on her recent publication “Shodagor women cooperate across domains of work and childcare to solve an adaptive problem” which appears in the Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society.… Jim Meierhoff publishes chapter in edited volume on Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands Congrats to Jim on the publication of his chapter “The Final Frontier, Nineteenth Century Maya Refugees at Tikal, Guatemala” in Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands edited by Kasey Diserens Morgan & Tiffany C.… Bill Parkinson publishes two books on the First Kings of Europe exhibition Congratulations to Bill Parkinson and Attila Gyucha on the publication of two books and opening of their exhibit “The First Kings of Europe”. The edited volume and catalog were published by the Cotsen… Katie Starkweather's new paper in American Journal of Human Biology Katie Starkweather’s paper “Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families” was just published in the American Journal of Human Biology. You can find it at UIC… Themal Ellawala receives Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Congratulations to Themal who was awarded a Wenner Gren for his dissertation project entitled “When Ephemera Bind: On Negative & Positive Space and Queer Relationality in Sri Lanka”. Tarini Bedi awarded 2022 Victor Turner Book Prize at the AAA Congratulation to Professor Tarini Bedi who received the 2022 Victor Turner Prize for her book “Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India” at this year’s AAA. Click here to see more about this… Ben Schaefer wins paper Award at the AAA Meeting Congratulations to Ben who received the Archaeology Division Student Award for his paper entitled “Integumentary Bioarchaeology: Unsettling the Bioarchaeological landscape from the case study of the Chimu Empire” at last week AAA’s in… Themal Ellawala wins Scholarship from NWSA Congratulations to Themal who just received a National Women’s Studies Association’s (NWSA) Graduate Scholarship for students writing a MA or PhD in the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies. For more info about the… Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius publishes new paper on urban road network Congrats to Rodrigo on the recent publication of his paper ‘A Mesoamerican Urban Road Network: An Analysis of Pedestrian Pathways of Angamuco, Michoacán’ in the most recent edition of Latin American Antiquity. You… Foreman Bandama wins multi-year grant to study innovations during turbulent times in precolonial southern Africa Congratulations to Foreman and his team on the successful Forskningsradet grant for their project ‘ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times’. This multi-million NOR krone project will focus on pyrotechnological (ceramics,… Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next