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SOAN major Amber Lozoya ’23, who was among the students selected for a 2023-24 Weitz Fellowship, was featured in a Carleton News article for traveling to Nebraska, along with other current fellows, to meet with current and former fellows, the Weitz family, and members of the Career Center as an introduction to the program and a welcome to Omaha and Lincoln.

Annette Nierobisz, Professor of Sociology, received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS) for work toward completing her co-authored book, “American Idle: Late Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era.” The oldest learned society in the U.S. (est. 1743), APS continues to pursue its original mission of “promoting useful knowledge” through grants, fellowships, and public outreach. Support from APS will allow Annette and her co-author, Professor Dana Sawchuk of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, to conduct and analyze data gathered in follow-up interviews, and to collaboratively work toward completing their manuscript.

Wes Markofski, professor of sociology and chair of the sociology and anthropology department at Carleton, published his newest Oxford University Press book, “Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America.”

Daniel Williams, Mary and Fred Easter Africana Studies distinguished visiting research associate professor, joined the Carleton faculty as an associate professor with a joint appointment in the sociology and anthropology department and the Africana Studies program during winter 2023 faculty promotions.

Annette Nierobisz, professor of sociology, was awarded the 2023-24 Hewlett Mellon Fellowship by the Carleton Faculty Grants Committee to complete her book, “American Idle: Late Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era.”

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom professor of social demography and anthropology at Carleton and co-director of Africana Studies, presented a paper titled “Contingent Lives and the Puzzle of Reluctant Relatives: The Social Construction of Fostering, Parenting, and Class” at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Seattle.

SOAN alum Scott Vignos ’06, who has served as Oregon State University’s interim vice president and chief diversity officer since fall 2021, has been named to the position on a permanent basis. Prior to serving as interim vice president, Vignos served as assistant vice president for strategic diversity initiatives in the Office of Institutional Diversity beginning in January 2019 and as director of strategic diversity initiatives when the office was formed in February 2016. He joined Oregon State in October 2015 as a special assistant in Oregon State’s former Office of Equity and Inclusion.

SOAN alum Anne Guttridge ’18 was featured on Current, a nonprofit news organization covering public media in the U.S.,  for being a finalist in their “Local that Works” contest. The contest is a part of Current’s collaborative project to “showcase exceptional content and engagement projects that other media can replicate or scale.” In conjunction with Twin Cities PBS, Guttridge produced a TikTok series called “MinneHistories,” which shares surprising pieces of Minnesota history with a younger, more diverse audience and highlights the undertold stories of BIPOC residents.

Beverly Nagel ’75, Winifred and Atherton Bean professor of sociology, science, technology and society, was promoted to professor emeriti at Carleton during fall 2022 faculty promotions.