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John Maniatis uses his LUC Anthropology training as Registrar for the First Division Museum
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Archaeology Field School 2018
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Students
Loyola Anthro Students, Alumni, and Faculty at April Conferences: SfAA, AAPA, and CSAS
Current students and recent alumni are out in force presenting original research alongside department faculty at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the Central States Anthropological Society.
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Faculty
Atlas Obscura Features Dr. Nichols' Research on Museum Exchange
Catherine Nichols' ongoing research on the exchange of anthropological duplicates among museums, including the Smithsonian, is featured in a new Atlas Obscura article.
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Events
From the Attic to the Web: Building the May Weber Ethnographic Digital Collection
Dr. Catherine Nichols, along with Digital Humanities graduate students Lucas Coyne, Andi Pacheco, and Adam Depew, will discuss progress on their project, "Decolonizing the Museum Catalogue," at a lunchtime lecture on Wednesday, April 11.
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Faculty
Dr. Adams Delivers Keynote at Critical Tourism Studies Conference
Kathleen Adams' keynote lecture, titled "On Gateways and “Yellow Brick Roads”: Rethinking Travel and Travelers in an era of (Im-) Mobility,” was delivered at the Inaugural Conference for Critical Tourism Studies in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Faculty
Dr. Grauer Elected President of AAPA, to Receive 2018 Lasker Award
Anthropology Chair Anne Grauer has been elected President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. At the AAPA meeting in April, Dr. Grauer will also receive the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award for her history of excellent service to the AAPA and the field of physical anthropology.
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Events
"The Anthropologist" Film Screening and Q&A with Dr. Susie Crate
In concert with the Loyola's Climate Change Conference, Dr. Crate will host a screening of *The Anthropologist,* a film that is part biographical story of daughters and their anthropologist mothers, as well as a tour of indigenous communities contemplating relocation from traditional homes as a result of climate change. The screening will be Friday, March 16, from 11:15-1:00 in the Damen Cinema.
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Events
Migration and Belonging Exhibit and Talk by Lauren Heidbrink
Anthropology's Mobility and Immobility Speaker Series will feature an exhibit titled "Migration and Belonging: Narratives from a Highland Town" in the IC from Feb. 19-Mar. 1, including a talk by exhibit creator Lauren Heidbrink on Feb. 26.
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Events
Dr. Calcagno to Participate in CCIH Perspectives on Personhood Colloquium
The interdisciplinary colloquium will bring together resources from science, philosophy, and theology to interrogate human consciousness and personhood. It will be held on Tuesday, February 16 in the IC.
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Events
Undocumented to Hyperdocumented, Loyola's Dra. Aurora Chang Talks About Her New Book
School of Education professor Chang will discuss her new book, The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students, on Feb. 13.
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Faculty
Dr. Adams Examines Santa Fe Collection of Toraja Art
In late November, Kathleen Adams traveled to Santa Fe to examine materials at the Museum of International Folk Art, photo-documenting a Toraja effigy of the dead as part of a digital repatriation project.
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Students
Students Attend Umbanda Religious Ceremony with Prof. Penglase in Brazil
Prof. Ben Penglase, who is teaching in a USAC study-abroad program in Florianópolis, Brazil, took students to an Umbanda religious ceremony at the Ilê de Xangô center, where priests also gave a short talk about the African roots of the Brazilian religions Candomblé and Umbanda.
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Faculty
Loyola Faculty at the 2017 AAA Annual Meeting
Drs. Adams, Gomberg-Muñoz, and Penglase participated in the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, presenting original research and contributing to disciplinary discussions of museums, migration policies, and Olympic legacies.
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Events
Salvadoran Congresswoman Marina Alvarenga at LUC Nov. 6
Alvarenga will address migration challenges facing El Salvador, including mass deportations from the United States. The talk will be at 4:00 p.m., Nov. 6, in McCormick Lounge.
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Alumni
From Cancer Survivor to Fighting Child Hunger
Anthropology alum Kelly LaFramboise's (BS, BA '11) journey to Loyola and life after is a study in humanity.
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Students
Dr. Penglase and Students Attend Soccer Match in Brazil
Participating in a semester-long USAC study-abroad program in Florianopolis, Brazil, Dr. Penglase took Loyola students to the match as part of his class on "Culture of Brazil."
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Faculty
Dr. Butler contributes to "landmark in the anthropology of education"
The recent edited volume on Islamic education in Africa has received strong praise. Dr. Butler's chapter discusses new forms and uses of schools in Muslim communities in Niger.
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Faculty
Dr. Krueger Publishes "A Guide to Teaching Race after Charlottesville"
Her reflections on best practices for teaching about race and racism in the anthropology classroom recently appeared in Anthropology News.
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Video
Landfill on campus a glimpse into Chicago's past
What’s underneath this grass on Halas Quad, may surprise you: old garbage. Extending across this part of Loyola’s Lake Shore campus is a landfill that contains about 60 tons of trash. Hundreds of artifacts exposed during construction projects have been collected and studied by Anthropology professor Dr. Daniel Amick.
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Experiential Learning
May Weber Ethnographic Art Collection finds a home at Loyola
A university acquisition that was years in the making is now giving students a chance to study non-Western folk art--and unravel the mind of a collector.
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Faculty
Professor Jim Calcagno creates new online course for TED
Professor Jim Calcagno has developed one of the first online courses available as part of TED’s new Ted Studies series. Dr. Calcagno’s 2013 Evolutionary Anthropology article “What Makes Us Human” served as the inspiration for the course, which features a set of curated talks on evolution from experts such as Jane Goodall.
