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Anthropology credit available for students who study abroad this summer in...
Students who want to study abroad this summer have opportunities in Sicily and Thailand that will result in Department of Anthropology credit. For program and application materials, contact the Study...
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NIU will host international workshop on models of nature in primary food...
Giovanni Bennardo NIU will host a two-day international workshop early next month examining the cultural models of nature and the environment held by primary food producers worldwide. Department of...
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Nearly 300 attend NIU Anthropology Museum opening
Nearly 300 people from across the state and across the country attended Sunday’s open house at Northern Illinois University’s Fay-Cooper Cole Hall in DeKalb, highlighted by the grand opening of NIU’s...
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‘Music for the Divine’ spotlights traditions, musical instruments of Burma,...
Bronze drum (Burma/Mayanmar), NIU Burma Art Collection As a part of the NIU Art Museum’s upcoming Southeast Asian Exhibition Suite, “Music for the Divine” showcases Burmese traditions and musical...
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A monkey’s uncle? Study focuses on kinship, child-rearing practices in unique...
NIU anthropologist Leila Porter with a saddle-back tamarin. Leila Porter, an NIU professor of anthropology, is up to some serious monkey business. She spent last summer in a Bolivian rain forest,...
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Archaeologists to gather this weekend at NIU for forum on Andean, Amazonian...
NIU will host the 41st annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory this weekend. The meeting will take place Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24, in Cole Hall,...
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NIU alumna researches giant pandas in China
Sarah Bexell Sarah Bexell is one of very few American conservationist researchers who have had the opportunity to work on panda conservation in China at the Chengdu Panda Base. This honor is by...
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Anthropology Museum to present Peruvian art, dance, music during free April...
Experience the music and dance traditions of Peru during a free performance scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Conexión Comunidad, 637 N. 11th St. in DeKalb. The Peruvian Folk Dance Center of...
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Laurie Elish-Piper, Andrea Molnar earn honors as 2013-17 Presidential...
A literacy expert who has developed strong partnerships with area schools and an anthropologist whose work in Southeast Asia has earned her the trust of both villagers and government officials are this...
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Stevens Building tenants move out May 20
Stevens Building After years of deterioration and a dubious two-decade reign atop NIU’s capital budget request list, the Stevens Building is drawing nearer to its long-awaited transformation....
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Out of Asia: NIU anthropologist Gebo among scientists announcing oldest...
An artist’s conception of what the newly discovered primate, Archicebus achilles, might have looked like.Credit: Mat Severson, Northern Illinois University An international team of paleontologists that...
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Anthropology Museum views slavery from lens of Underground Railroad...
What evidence did runaway slaves leave behind at an Underground Railroad station? What tools help an archaeologist uncover and identify that evidence? Is slavery itself an historic artifact? These are...
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After the quake: Haiti four years later
The earthquake in Haiti was one of the top five deadliest disasters in contemporary history, claiming more than 315,000 lives. The disaster was also one of the most widely covered events in modern...
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Groundbreaking ceremony for Stevens Building planned Sept. 22
A look at what’s left of the Stevens Building: Monday, Aug. 18 NIU officials and partners will dig shovels into dirt at 11:45 a.m. Monday, Sept. 22, to commence construction of the new Stevens...
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Library exhibition explores ‘Ancestry Transcending the Oceans ’
Founders Memorial Library is home this month to an exhibit titled “Ancestry Transcending the Oceans: An Exhibition of Madagascar and its Cultural Ties to Southeast Asia.” The exhibition, curated by...
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Anthropologist to offer ‘new perspectives’ on Holocaust
Krista Hegburg Krista Hegburg, a program officer in the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will deliver two lectures at NIU during the first...
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Ledgerwood, Thurmaier named 2015 Presidential Engagement Professors
Cultural anthropologist Judy Ledgerwood and public administration expert Kurt Thurmaier are this year’s winners of the Presidential Engagement Professor awards. Both are longtime NIU faculty members...
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NIU graduate student honored for Asian-American leadership efforts
Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Mungerand Laurence Anthonie Tumpag NIU graduate anthropology student Laurence Anthonie Tumpag was among 24 young Chicagoland Asian-American leaders honored Monday...
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Applause, applause
Michelle Stewart The Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) continues to give critical acclaim and recognition to NIU museums, galleries and the university’s Museum Studies certificate of graduate...
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‘Pride of the Philippines’ exhibit highlights indigenous, Muslim minorities
A new student-curated exhibition inside Founders Memorial Library explores the material culture of indigenous and Muslim minorities found throughout the Philippines, a nation with a diverse history and...
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