ANTH 515

Spring 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

Seminar in Anthropology

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Analysis of selected topics of special interest in anthropology.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours in the same or subsequent semesters.

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ANTH 515 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
30180	Seminar	AC	11:00AM -1:50PM	W	209A Davenport Hall	Cortez, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Indigeneity Section Info: The Politics of Indigeneity Across the Americas. Recognizing that “Indigenous” is a contested category often negotiated between First Peoples and settler states, this course bridges anthropological studies of Indigeneity and Indigenous studies to consider the contours of Indigeneity across the Americas. Taking a hemispheric approach, students will consider the ways that anthropology as a discipline has shaped our understanding of Indigenous peoples and how Indigenous scholars and the field of Indigenous studies have responded. Further, students will explore how Indigeneity is constructed and imposed by settler states, how Indigenous peoples refuse and resist state forms, and critically engage concepts such as performance, sovereignty, survivance, revitalization, resistance, refusal, performance. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
65206	Online Lecture	FH	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	n.a.	Harrison, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Decolonizing Knowledge Section Info: This course examines the multiple streams, sites, and positionalities of contestation, rethinking, and renewed knowledge production that have contributed to the theory, methodology, praxis, politics, and poetics associated with the “decolonizing generations.” Anthropologists around the world, in dialogue with each other and with thinkers from other fields, are probing the interplay of knowledge and power in light of problems germane to modernity/coloniality, including white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and accumulation by exploitation and expropriation in racial capitalism. These scholars dare to re-imagine possibilities for knowledge otherwise beyond the confining boundaries of the cognitive empire toward regenerative landscapes for epistemic equity. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
67022	Seminar	JD2	1:00PM -3:50PM	F	109A Davenport Hall	Desmond, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Living in Multi-Species Worlds Section Info: Structured as an exploratory laboratory, this seminar invites participants from across the university to think deeply about how humans live and have lived in multi-species worlds, in culturally and historically specific ways. A special focus will be on the theories and challenges of multi-species ethnography as a mode of research, on experiential mappings of relationships across species, and on imagined futures in the Anthropocene. Drawing on key themes in human-animal studies, we will examine topics such as notions of multi-species justice, shared environments, practices of extraction/extinction/de-extinction, art about and by animals, the scientific/cultural dimensions of “One Health,” and social media storytelling. Readings and guest speakers will be drawn from across the humanities/social sciences/arts/law/and biological sciences. Open to graduate and professional students from across the university. Limit of 15. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
51080	Online	MK2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	n.a.	Koven, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Language, Culture & Identity Section Info: We will discuss how people use language in ways that signal a range of interactional and socio-cultural meanings. We will explore a number of classic and contemporary approaches that address how language use both seems to “reflect” and create interpersonal and sociocultural contexts.More specifically, we will cover a range of approaches to the study of the relationships between language use and processes of social identification, often understood in terms of seemingly more durable, broader-level rubrics, such as ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, the nation-state, diaspora, generation, etc. Although no previous background is required for this course, students must be willing, however, to read, synthesize, and discuss material from a range of disciplines. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
50204	Seminar	SC2	6:00PM -8:50PM	W	133 1207 W Oregon	Rosas, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Anth Social Theory II Section Info: This seminar invites its participants to wrestle with enduring tensions and emerging concepts in contemporary anthropological theory. These include practice and power, culture and agency; self and other; unsettling, decolonizing, and abolition; repair and refusal; affect and embodiment; precarity and entanglements; scale and capital; ethics and sites of knowledge production; norms and forms. All while keeping sustained critical attention to the intelligentsia in and beyond the discipline. We will explore the relationships between anthropological theory and methods, pedagogy and form, including how institutions and infrastructures shape them. Our overarching course goal is to contextualize and historicize contemporary anthropological theory and theorists, appreciate their discontent and critiques, and to actively and creatively imagine possible future trajectories and possibilities of the discipline. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
30178	Seminar	ST	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	109A Davenport Hall	Telep, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Black France Section Info: Black France: Race in the French Republic. This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of France’s socio-historical and political relationships to Blackness within its borders and with migrants of African descent. Using a transatlantic approach covering the 20th and 21st centuries, we will explore how the French Republic’s problematic relationship to race, and to Blackness more specifically, reflects both France’s representation of itself as a “colorblind” society, and its paradoxical relationship to multicultural difference. We will also explore the historical linkages between Black Americans and Black French women and men in Paris, through the trajectories of African American artists, scholars, and activists such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, or Angela Davis. Using fiction, film, art, social media and a range of sources from popular to elite culture, the course will enable students to gain a better understanding of the visibility/invisibility of race in postcolonial France, while relating it to wider debates about the articulation of migration, ethnicity, sexuality and citizenship in the new Millennium. All readings and audiovisual materials will be in English or in French with an English translation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.