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Nirupama Jayaraman Receives the Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award!
Congratulations to Nirupama who just received the 2022 Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award.  The CSSLA are given to outstanding student leaders for their commitment to the UIC community through their participation in…
New publication for Luis Gómez Ordóñez
Congrats to Luis on the recent publication of his paper “The Electoral Symptom: Rituals beyond conservative Nostalgia, the Invention of the Outsider and Progressive Impotence” which came out in Revista Psicologia y Palologias…
New publication for Katerina Psoma
Congratulations to Katerina on her co-authored publication “Gourimadi Archaeological Project. The results from the first excavation season (2018) of a prehistoric site in the Karystia, southern Euboea” by Žarko Tankosić, Fanis Mavridis, Paschalis…
New article by Luis Gómez Ordóñez
Another publication to start off the semester! Congratulations to Luis on his co-authored piece focussing on decolonizing psychological science that just came out in the British Psychological Society. You can find the link…
New Online Essay by Elizabeth Obregón
Congrats to Elizabeth for the recent online publication of her essay “Anti-Blackness Cuba – Confronting Anti-Blackness in “Colorblind” Cuba” in Sapiens.org. A great way to start the semester!
New article for Ben Schaefer
Congrats to Ben on the publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports which looks at changes in palaeodiet in pre- and post- Black Death in Germany. Mariana E. Zechini, Kristina Killgrove, Claudia…
LASURI Awarded to Katie Starkweather and Laura Pfeiffer
Katie Starkweather and Laura Pfeiffer, a junior undergraduate major, have been awarded LASURI funding to support undergraduate student research on a project entitled “The Struggle of Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. This award…
Kre Britt and Rosa Varillas win Awards for Graduate Research
Congrats to Kre and Rosa who were both named as recipients of AGRs. These funds will go towards facilitating fieldwork and analysis for their respective archaeological projects in the SW and Peru.
Jozi Chaet receives UIC Dean's Scholar Fellowship
Congratulations to Jozi on being announced as one of the university’s Dean’s Scholar Fellowships for next year! This prestigious award is “intended to provide the most distinguished, advanced-level graduate students with a period…
Another new publication for Katerina Psoma
Pleased to announce another co-authored article for Katerina. Keep up the great work! Tankosić, Ž, Laftsidis, A., Psoma, A., Seifried, R., & Garyfallopoulos, A. (2021). New data on Southern Euboean Landscapes: Results of…
Katerina Psimogiannou wins two grants!
Congrats to Katerina who has received two different awards to support her dissertation research. The 2021 Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research Award will be used for her project “Pace(s)…
Alize Arican awarded Post-doc at Rutgers University
More fantastic news for Alize, who will be taking up a Postdoctoral position at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis in the fall.
Elizabeth Obregon awarded UIC/IUPLR Mellon Fellowship
Fantastic news for Elizabeth Obregon, who has just received the UIC Inter-University Program for Latino Research/Mellon Fellowship! This dissertation writing award, which includes a summer workshop and conference presentation, will be used to…
New publication for Aldo Foe
Great news for Aldo who just published “Indonesia’s Own ‘Pyramid’: The Imagined Past and Nationalism of Gunung Padang” with Dian Sulistyowati in International Review of Humanities Studies. Find out more information here.
New article by Katerina Psoma
Congratulations to Katerina Psoma for her new publication “The 2019 Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) Project: New Archaeological Evidence for the History of Coastal Settlement, Economy, and Connectivity from Porto Rafti…
New publication for Alize Arican
Congratulations to Alize on her latest publication “1237, or Dying Elsewhere” which will appear in the February issue of Current Anthropology. You can read it in the Early View section of CA here.
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…