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Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton and a board member of the  Cambodian American Partnership of Minnesota, spoke at the 44th Annual Hmong New Year celebration.

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, gave a colloquium talk titled, “Voicing the Khmer Rouge: Communist Revolutionary or Cruel Torturer?” at Brown University. In this talk, Yin analyzed re-enactments of Khmer Rouge language by Khmer Rouge survivors and former soldiers to understand how people today remember the Khmer Rouge.

Daniel Williams, associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Carleton, published “Racism without ‘race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday racism in contemporary Germany” in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

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The New York Times published the obituary for SOAN alum Cathy Cade ’63, “an activist and pioneering photographer who chronicled same-sex female relationships, producing a 1987 book that was hailed by feminists and gay-rights advocates as a classic.”

“As a student at Carleton College… Ms. Cade participated in an exchange program with Spelman College, the historically Black institution for women in Atlanta. There, she became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, the Black campus organization that fought for racial justice.

After graduating from Carleton with a bachelor’s degree in sociology a year later, she went to work for SNCC full time, participating in sit-ins and protests in the South and attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She continued her activism in the latter half of the 1960s while earning a doctorate in sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans.”

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Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, presented a paper titled, “When Cruelty Fails to Translate in the Courtroom: Khmer to English interpretation at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal” at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Tampa, Florida. The paper looks at translation difficulties from Khmer to English in a hybrid courtroom setting that uses both Cambodian and international law to prosecute former Khmer Rouge leaders.

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, presented a talk titled, “Khmer Honorific Registers: Understanding Honorific Word-Choice in Khmer” at the Cambodian American Studies Conference in Long Beach, California. This conference introduces the Cambodian American Studies Model Curriculum to K-12 teachers and provides valuable cultural information to California K-12 educators who are interested in incorporating Cambodian studies and Cambodian American studies into their curriculum.

SOAN majors Ayanna Rose ’25 and Lexi Wallace ’26 presented their research at the regional Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows conference at Northwestern with fellow scholars Faridah Azeez ’25, Ambar Galaviz ’26, Zaria Kelly ’25, Natalia Ron-Lopez ’25, Jerry Shang ’26, Ellie Simon ’26, Sophia Ying ’26, and Hope Yu ’26.

SOAN major Bella Thomas ’25 was featured in the October 2024 Student Life Newsletter in the “Staff and Student Highlights” section for being a Student Wellness Advocate in the Office of Health Promotion. She is also a board member of the Black Student Alliance, Captain of the Varsity Women’s Basketball team, and President of the BIPOC Student-Athlete Collective.

Wes Markofski, associate professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton, presented a paper titled “Making Peace with Difference: Modalities of Pluralism and Social Reflexivity” at the inaugural 2024 Spring Convening on Religious Pluralism and Conflict at Rice University’s Boniuk Institute.

SOAN majors Julianna Baldo ’25 and Grace Bassekle ’25 will present at the upcoming Upper Midwest Association of Campus Sustainability (UMACS) meeting at Macalester with colleagues Demetrius Blackmon Jimenez ’24, Nico Bolling ’27, Sadie DiCarlo ’25, Alex Dudnyk ’27, Lillian Fisher ’25, and Elena Prichard ’25. The presentation is titled “Carleton’s Students Take Climate Action” and will focus on student project activities engaging transportation, food emissions and food systems, energy tours, storytelling, and community science monitoring.