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New article for Shilpa Menon!
Congratulations to Shilpa, who recently publication her article, “Living with the Norm: The Nirvanam Ritual in South Indian Transfeminine Narratives of Self and Transition” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies…
Three Anthropology Graduate Students win Fall 2020 Provost's Graduate Research Awards
Congrats to three of our graduate students – Cyrus Banikazemi, Riya Sharma, and Rosa Varillas Palacios – who each received Provost’s Graduate Research Awards in the Fall 2020 round. Cyrus’s project is entitled…
Susan Monge receives Fall 2020 Award for Graduate Research
Congratulations to Susan Monge on her Award for Graduate Research from the Graduate College here at UIC. This award will be used to fund her thesis project entitled “The Translocation of Pre-Columbian Turkey…
Ben Linder wins 2020 Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis Award
Well done to Ben Linder, who just received an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate College here at UIC.  Ben’s thesis, “Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and the Productions of Place in Kathmandu: A Spatial Ethnography…
PhD Thesis of the Year award for Dr. Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius
Congratulations to Dr. Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius, our new Bridge-to-Faculty postdoctoral fellow, who has won the Alfonso Caso award for the best PhD dissertation in archaeology from INAH (National Agency for Anthropology and History of…
New book chapter for Ana Soares
Congrats to Ana Soares for her new publication ‘Forced Labor and Disciplinary Control: A History of Indigenous Peoples’ Treatment and Agency in the City of Manaus, Brazil’ which appears in a new edited…
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…