News Anthropology Brings Home FIVE Provost Graduate Research Awards Once again, the anthropology department has shown the strength of our graduate research! Congratulations to our winners: Aldo W. Foe “Nagara and the Masjid: Mosque Construction and the Political Economy of Islamization in… NSF Awarded to David Reid The anthropology department is proud to announce that David Reid has been awarded a NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for his project, “Roads, Caravans, and Waystations: The Role of Infrastructure in Wari State Expansion (Arequipa,… Dr. Marisa Fontana ('07) Receives Teaching Award Marisa Fontana, half-time Assistant Professor of Sociology, has been recognized as the recipient of North Central’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Half-Time Faculty due to her commitment to creating engaged learning for students. Dr.… Congratulations to Alize Arican for winning the Gender and Women's Studies Completion Award Alize Arican has won the Gender and Women’s Studies Completion Award for 2018. Congratulations to her! Congratulations to Ashley Vance and Corey Bowen for winning the Provost Graduate Internship Award Ashley Vance and Corey Bowen are the first students in the Anthropology department to win the Provost’s Graduate Internship Award. Congratulations to both of them. Congratulations to Dipti Sherchan and Pamela Whyms for winning the Provost Award for Spring 2018 Dipti Sherchan has won the Provost Award for her research titled: Emergence of “Art” in Nepal: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Institutional Development of Arts in Nepal Pamela Whyms has won the Provost Award… Congratulations to Jozi Chaet for winning the Fulbright Award 2018 Jozi Chaet is on a roll and has won the 2018 Fulbright Award for her research in Jordan on ” ‘Homeland’s Daughter, Everyone’s Sister’: Women’s Organizations in Jordan.” Have a great fieldwork season! Department of Anthropology instructors honored at the the Honoring Our Professors' Excellence (HOPE) Award ceremony Congratulations to Dr. Brian Bauer and Kevin Suemnicht, who were nominated for the HOPE Award ceremony hosted by UIC Campus Housing this year. Campus Housing at UIC recognizes the importance of faculty building… Congratulations to the winners of the Charles Reed Award The Charles Reed Award instituted by the Department of Anthropology was won by five doctoral students for their research in 2018. Katerina Psoma for research in Greece Dipti Sherchan for research in Nepal Aditi Aggarwal for… Congratulations to Jozi Chaet for winning the fellowship by the American Center of Oriental Research and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (ACOR-CAORC) Jozi Chaet has won a fellowship offered by the American Center of Oriental Research and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (ACOR-CAORC) to conduct her research in Amman. We wish her all the… Dr. Tarini Bedi elected to the Executive Committee for the International Association for the History for Traffic, Transport and Mobility Dr. Tarini Bedi, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, has been elected to the Executive Committee for the International Association for the History for Traffic, Transport and Mobility. Prev 1 … 3 4 5 6