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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.

SOAN and dance alum Phil Chan ’06, who is currently serving as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance at Carleton, was interviewed by Carleton News in an article called “Scholarship and activism in the world of dance.” Chan discusses teaching dance history at Carleton, advancing the goals of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization he co-founded, and writing his second book Banishing Orientalism: Dancing Between Exotic and Familiar.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom professor of social demography and anthropology at Carleton and co-director of Africana Studies, presented a paper titled “Friendships for Future: Middle-Classing Selves and Children in the Cameroonian Diaspora” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. The occasion, held Oct. 26-28, was the inaugural workshop of the Otto-Hahn Research Group on Gender, Migration and Social Mobility among Transnational West African Women, which seeks to better understand the thorny path to the middle class among West African migrant women in Europe.

SOAN and dance alum Phil Chan ’06, who is currently serving as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance at Carleton, was featured in a Carleton news article called “The Oakland Ballet Company comes to Carleton” which describes how members of the Oakland Ballet Company brought a night of ballet, choreographed by Chan, to Carleton.

SOAN and educational studies alum Clarissa Guzman ’22 was featured in “Creating a Climate for Community Change in SE Minnesota”, a CERTs article about the impact of local climate adaptation efforts with Latino neighbors in partnership with the local Growing Up Healthy program of the Healthy Community Initiative. Clarissa was a CCCE summer intern with HCI, funded through the Career Center.

SOAN and dance alum Phil Chan ’06, who will be serving as a Benedict distinguished visiting professor of dance at Carleton in the fall, has been recognized as a “Next 50” arts leader by the Kennedy Center for his and co-founder Georgina Pazcoguin’s global diversity initiative Final Bow for Yellowface. The initiative raises awareness and promotes inclusivity through sincere representation of all ethnicities in the performing arts.

SOAN major and archeology minor Kalju Maegi ’23 was featured in a Carleton news article called “Focus on community guides Carleton summer research trip to Peru” about Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sarah Kennedy’s month-long trip to Puno, Peru with five students. Maegi and the other students conducted archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in Peru by studying heavy metal poisoning in soil and interacting with the community affected by it.

SOAN alum Jeremy Sutherland ’11 talked to Nice Kicks about his streetwear brand Hybrid Nation and his dedication to representing diversity through the clothing he makes. The idea and name for the brand stemmed from a late night chat with some fellow Carls when Sutherland was a student at Carleton.