2020

Ryan Gray, associate professor at the University of New Orleans, has just published a new book, Uprooted: Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods, with the University of Alabama Press.

2020

Matthew Reilly (MA UChicago Anthropology), assistant professor at City College of New York, just published a new book, Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society, with the Alabama University press.

2020

Professor Rebecca Graff has just published her first book, Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair, University Press of Florida.

2019

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected death of distinguished alumnus John Janusek on October 22, 2019. He will be missed by many colleagues and students across the academic world. Obituaries can be found here and here.

2019

Haeden Stewart has been offered an appointment as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2018

Kate Grossman was appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, following her previous position as a Lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

2018

Kate Franklin was appointed to a tenure-track Lectureship in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birbeck College, University of London.

2018

Professor Rebecca Graff of Lake Forest College was in the news recently for her excavations at an Irving Park house that was suspected to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. Click on her photo to see the news coverage.

2018

David Pacifico was appointed to a joint tenure track Assistant Professorship and Museum Directorship position at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

2017

Carolina López-Ruiz was promoted to full Professor in the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University.

2017

Hannah Chazin was appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, following her position as Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeological Science at Stanford University.

2017

Tate Paulette was appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University, following his previous position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.

2017

Adela Amaral was appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at William and Mary, following her previous position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. 

2017

Ian Straughn was appointed Lecturer with potential for tenure track in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine, following his previous position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.

2017

Kristyn Mahealani Hara was appointed to a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University.

2017

Mary Leighton was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

2016

Alan Green was appointed Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York