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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…