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Meera Sehgal and Iveta Jusová moderate roundtable discussions at National Women’s Studies Association annual conference
9 November 2023Meera Sehgal, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and sociology at Carleton, and Iveta Jusová, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and director of Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe at Carleton, moderated a roundtable discussion at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference about gender and off-campus studies. Jusová also moderated a discussion on trigger warnings and academic freedom, which featured Amna Khalid, professor of history at Carleton, and Jeff Snyder, professor of educational studies at Carleton.
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GWSS and Political Science/International Relations major and Spanish minor Mikhalina Solakhava ’23 received a 2023 Fulbright Award for an English Teaching Assistantship in Spain. Ten members of the Carleton Class of 2023 and three Carleton alumni from the Classes of 2019, 2021 and 2022 received Fulbright Awards this year from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which gives college students and recent graduates the opportunity to travel the world and participate in advanced research and culturally immersive experiences.
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Art Onwumere ’24 awarded PFund Minnesota Scholarship for participation in Carleton IDE efforts
18 May 2023GWSS major Art Onwumere ’24 was awarded a PFund Minnesota Scholarship for his active participation in Carleton’s IDE efforts as well as advocacy and leadership within LGBTQIA+ communities on campus.
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Adrian Balvuena ’24 featured in Carleton News for Festival de Cammes film “Boys in the Sun” Outside link
15 May 2023CAMS major and GWSS minor Adrian Balvuena ’24 was featured in Carleton News for participating in the 2023 Festival de Cammes: Color of Life film screening, an event that displays the work of CAMS majors. Balvuena’s film “Boys in the Sun” is a queer coming-of-age story that “warps the spatial and temporal timeline of their romantic experiences to tell the story of this young couple.”
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Psychology major and GWSS minor Samira Gado ’24 presented two posters at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago with colleagues Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, and Amanda Lilienfeld ’23. The posters were titled, “This statement is false: labeling lies doesn’t help,” and “We’re just too different: outgroups lead to underestimated conversational effectiveness.” This work was completed with fellow students and alumni, including GWSS alumni Lauren Carothers-Liske ’22 and Miriam Freedman ’22.
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GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum, and current General Nonfiction Fellow, Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was awarded a fellowship for 2023 by the Guggenheim Foundation. She received a new fellowship underwritten by Matt Pincus and Sarah Min in “Fiction, General Nonfiction, or Biography” for a woman or person of color. Yang has written two memoirs about her family’s experience as Hmong refugees in the United States.
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Candace Moore receives Curriculum Innovation faculty grant for new A&I course on the LGBTQ memoir Outside link
27 March 2023Candace Moore, professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Carleton, was awarded a 2023 Curriculum Innovation faculty grant from the Carleton Faculty Curricular Planning Committee to prepare and launch a new A&I course on the LGBTQ memoir.
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GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was interviewed by MPR for their Minnesota Now series in an episode titled “For the first time, a Hmong story heads for the opera.” In 2016, Yang wrote “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” and now, in 2023, that story is the first Hmong story to be adapted for the operatic stage by Minnesota Opera.
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Dashini Jeyathurai ’08 featured in Carleton News for joining Board of Trustees Outside link
26 October 2022GWSS alum Dashini Jeyathurai ’08 was featured in a Carleton news article called “Introducing the 5 new members of Carleton’s Board of Trustees,” which welcomes her and four other new Board members back to the Carleton community.
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Iveta Jusová publishes chapter in Feministische Visionen vor und nach 1989
24 October 2022Iveta Jusová, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and director of Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe at Carleton, published a co-authored chapter called “Contested Feminist Narratives of Three Decades. Uncertain Prospects of Czech Gender Studies” in Feministische Visionen vor und nach 1989, or Feminist Visions Before and After 1989.