LAS Distinguished Professor Lecture and Award Ceremony: Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt
February 23, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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Chicago, IL 60612
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Download iCal FileLAS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
Race, Environment, and Culture in
Human Evolution: Theory versus Evidence
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022 • 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Anna Roosevelt has been Professor of Anthropology at UIC’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
since 1994 and an Honors College Faculty Fellow since 2015. Her BA from Stanford (1968) and
PhD from Columbia (1977) were awarded with distinction. Before joining UIC, she held curatorships
at the Field Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Museum of the American Indian
and visiting lectureships at New York University, University of Florida, and Harvard.
Professor Roosevelt is a four-field anthropologist whose interests include human evolution, human environment
interaction, and human rights. Her field research has changed understanding of the
history and prehistory of the tropical forests and the peopling of the Americas. Through stratigraphic
excavations in Amazonia, she uncovered evidence that Paleoindians settled there approximately
13,000 years ago—as early as in most other parts of the Americas. Her research has been
funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowments for the
Humanities and the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, the UIC Institute for the Humanities, the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the UIC Office of Social Science Research.
She has authored or co-authored ten books, including Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the
Present; Parmana: Manioc and Maize Subsistence along the Amazon and Orinoco; Moundbuilders
of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Maraho Island, Brazil; Ancient Lakes: Their Cultural and
Biological Diversity; Amaz’Homme: Sciences de L’Homme et Sciences de La Nature en Amazonie;
Ancient Civilizations of the Amazon; and more than 100 scientific articles in Science, Nature,
Anthropocene, Geoarchaeology, Quaternary Geochronology, Earth Science Research, Human
Biology, and other prestigious journals. Her findings have also been widely covered in the media.
Professor Roosevelt is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and American Anthropological Association. At UIC she received
the University Scholar Award and Honors College Instructor of the Year award in 2021. She holds
medals from the government of Brazil, the Society of Women Geographers, and the Explorers Club
and honorary degrees from Mt. Holyoke and Northeastern University (Boston). She has served on
boards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological
Association, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Institute for Amazonian
Research (CNRS), European Commission, Human Rights Watch, Rainforest Alliance, and others.
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Date posted
Nov 11, 2021
Date updated
Feb 7, 2022