News 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… 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! Closing out 2019 with Anthropology Awards!! The Anthropology Department once again sweeps the awards at year’s end! Aikaterini Psimogiannou, Award for Graduate Research, “Measuring Time and Culture Change from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age on the Greek mainland… Dr. Molly Doane Awarded a Wenner-Gren The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to announce that our very own, Dr. Molly Doane, received a Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant for Anthropological Research for her project “Affective Scales of the Anthropocene: Gardening the… Congratulations, Aditi! The Anthropology Department is proud to announce that Aditi Agarwal has been awarded the American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship (2020-2021) for her project titled: “Pragmatics, Planning, and Politics: Examining Train Vendors’… Interview with Chloe Ahmann by Alize Arıcan Our very own Alize Arıcan, an editorial intern for the American Ethnologist Society (AES), interviewed Chloe Ahmann in a recent AE Interviews segment. Chloe Ahmann, current Harper-Schmidt Fellow at University of Chicago and soon-to-be… Congratulations, Ben Schaefer! Ben Schaefer has been awarded a Short-Term Predoctoral Residency from the Dumbarton Oakes Pre-Columbian Studies Program in Washington, DC. Ben will be spending two weeks in DC where he will have access to… Anthropology Majors Everywhere!!! The Department of Anthropology hosted the first annual Welcome Back Open House for Undergraduate Majors and those who are interested in becoming one! Hosted by our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Vincent LaMotta,… Dr. Tarini Bedi Awarded NSF Dr. Tarini Bedi has been awarded a two-year (2019-2021) Senior Research Award from the National Science Foundation’s Cultural Anthropology Program in support of the research, collaborations and outreach for her project “Labor webs… Prev 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next