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Fernando Contreras Flamand, lecturer in Spanish; Vera Coleman, senior lecturer and Spanish language program director; Beatriz Pariente-Beltrán, senior lecturer in Spanish; and Claudia Lange, lecturer in Spanish, collaboratively designed an innovative didactic unit for Spanish 204 in partnership with the Nahua Indigenous community of Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Morelos, Mexico, engaging nearly 80 students. This initiative was made possible through the Mellon Foundation’s Indigenous Engagement in Place grant and reflects the department’s commitment to intercultural learning, reciprocity, and social justice.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, has published two articles in Bookish & CO, a journal associated with the publishing house Casa Vacía. Both essays — “A Matter of School: The Choral Author of Aristotle’s Work” and “Is It Necessary to Say No? The History of Affirmative Ontology and Its Secrets” — are part of a coming book that brings Aristotle’s thought into dialogue with contemporary literature and philosophy.

Al Montero, Frank B. Kellogg Professor of Political Science at Carleton, presented his working paper titled, “Trajectories of Political Polarization in Argentina (2003–2023),” at the Comparative Politics Colloquium of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Political Science on October 15.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an article titled, “Infamia y pudor de la historia: la genealogía en la obra de Nietzsche y en la de Borges” in Revista Variaciones Borges, published by the Borges Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sarah Kennedy, assistant professor of archaeology and Latin American studies, and Ezra Kucur ’25 co-authored an article titled, “Constructing an Ethical Discipline: A Survey of Anthropology Program Requirements and Rhetorics,” in the Journal of Archaeology and Education. The article investigates the inclusion of ethics education within undergraduate anthropology programs in the U.S., including Carleton. Results highlight the need for curricular shifts to promote ethics as fundamental to anthropological study.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an essay in Rialta magazine titled, “Between Becoming and the Funerary Urn: Notes on Essence and Existence from Aristotle and Lezama.”

Adriana Estill, professor of English and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies at Carleton, published a chapter titled, “Latinx Melodrama: Telenovela legacies in twenty-first century audiovisual narratives” in the volume Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020, edited by William Orchard and published by Cambridge University Press.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an article in Hypermedia Magazine titled, “Perestroika y filosofía.” The piece was part of a collective volume reflecting on the impact that Perestroika had on Cuba.

Sarah Kennedy, assistant professor of archaeology and Latin American studies at Carleton, was featured in the Carleton News for her environmental archaeology research on power and agency in colonial Peru. As a zooarchaeologist, Kennedy studies past human, animal, and environmental relationships to understand how people responded to imperialism and forms of colonial power.