News Congratulations, Aikaterini Psimogiannou! The good news keeps rolling in for the Anthropology department! Graduate student Aikaterini Psimogiannou has been awarded an Andrew Sherratt Grant to support her research in Greece. Big congratulations, Aikaterini!!! Congratulations, Billy Ridge!! We are so pleased to announce that Billy Ridge has been awarded a Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research for his project “Investigating Large-scale Settlement Decline during the Bodrogkeresztúr Period (4000-3500… Congratulations to Ana! Ana Soares, an anthropology graduate student, was awarded the Spring 2019 President’s Research in Diversity Travel Award! Congratulations, Ana! The Department of Anthropology Awards Rothschild and Reed Awards Congratulations to our Rothchild and Reed Awards!! The Rothschild Fund awards students who are including GIS as a critical part of the graduate research. We are proud to announce that two of… Steely Places and Angkorian Spaces: A podcast with Mitch Hendrickson Our very own Professor of Archaeology, Mitch Hendrickson was recently featured on the Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast on SoundCloud. Dr. Hendrickson, a specialist on the rise of Angkor, shares some new insights about… And the awards keep coming Anthropology's way! Congratulations to Jozi Chaet and Aditi Aggarwal ! They have both been awarded a 2019 Rue Bucher Memorial Award for Qualitative Studies in Social Process awarded by the Department of Sociology. Jozi will be using the award to… Ben Schaefer Receives Travel And the good news continues!! Congratulations to Ben Schaefer for receiving the President’s Research in Diversity Travel Award!!! Way to go, Ben! Beth Grávalos Awarded Field Museum Fellowship Congratulations to Beth for being awarded a one-year Women in Sciences Graduate Fellowship at the Field Museum. Nice job Beth ! Ashley Vance Awarded the 2019 Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship We are proud to announce that Ashley Vance has been awarded the 2019 Society for American Archaeology Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship for Archaeological Training. Ms. Vance will be using the scholarship to attend… Dr. Brian Bauer and Team Awarded One of 14 "Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities" Grants Our very own Brian Bauer and his award winning team of humanities scholars at the Krannert Museum are one of winning teams of UIC’s inaugural Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the… Congratulations to Aldo Foe: Recipient of the CAORC Predoctoral Research Fellowship The anthropology department is proud to announce that Aldo Foe has been awarded a Predoctoral Research Fellowship from the Council for American Overseas Research Center. This fellowship will provide Aldo with the resources… Wenpeng Xu and Collaborators Featured in Local and National News! CNN.com, NOVA Now, and The Daily Mail are among the media outlets to report on research from UIC anthropology graduate student Wenpeng Xu and his Field Museum collaborators Lisa Niziolek and Gary Feinman.… Katy Dye Receives the Wenner-Gren Award The Department of Anthropology is happy to announce that Katy Dye has been awarded the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her work in Bolivia! With this grant, Katy will be in the field… Migs Canilao Featured in UIC Today Our very own Migs Canilao was featured in the December 4, 2018, UIC Today article. He was one of six inspiring young graduates who are moving on to great adventures after their December… 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… Prev 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 Next