Anthropology

Join the Illinois Department of Anthropology in congratulating our Spring 2025 Graduates! This is a remarkable accomplishment and you leave an enduring mark on our academic community. As we celebrate the end of this chapter, we look forward to witnessing the impact you will continue to make in the... Read full story Congratulations to the Spring 2025 Graduates!

The lecture Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The Case of Roma People in Europe was given by Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache on April 10, 2025, with the UIUC European Union Center. It explores the different ways anti-Roma racism... Read full story Recording Available for EUC lecture entitled Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The Case of Roma People in Europe by Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache

On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and... Read full story Why were Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador? Illinois Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Moodie speaks with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about the decision.