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SOAN alum Bonnie Pitblado ’90, a researcher at the University of Oklahoma, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society.

SOAN major and GWSS minor Moe Kojima ’24 presented before a national panel of adjudicators at the American College Dance Conference, held this year at St. Olaf, with the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company. The company performed in the adjudicated concert with works by guest artist Elayna Waxse and by senior dance major d’Auria. Kojima performed an original solo in the Informal Concert.

SOAN and Dance alum Phil Chan ’06 was interviewed by the Star Tribune for a piece titled “‘10,000 Dreams’ at Northrop seeks to celebrate Asian choreography and end stereotypes.” The piece features Chan’s co-curated dance program 10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography and his creative journey to combat Asian stereotypes in dance.

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, was interviewed and quoted in an article for the news website The 19th about a non-profit called Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California that primarily serves Cambodian American youths whose parents resettled in the U.S. as refugees. As a Cambodian American and native of Long Beach, Yin shared her thoughts on the valuable work KGA is doing in the community.

SOAN and Dance alum Phil Chan ’06 was quoted in a New York Times article titled “From Ballet to Blackjack, a Dance Pioneer’s Amazing Odyssey.” The piece features the story of George Lee, pioneering Asian American ballet and Broadway dancer, as well as the documentary being released about him.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, presented a lecture titled “What Do (Cameroonian Migrant) Women Want? Obstetric Choice and Mutual Stereotyping in Berlin” at a seminar on migration and health at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, co-organized and attended the conference Red Lines, Red Tapes: Ethical Challenges in Sensitive Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. Funded by the European Research Council, the conference was held at the University of Warsaw, Poland, November 30–December 2, 2023.

Annette Nierobisz, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton, published a review of the book Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers in the Perspectives on Work journal from the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

In her newest Admissions Blog post, Lexi Wallace ’26 explains why she wants to major in Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, has been named as a research partner of the Otto-Hahn Gender, Migration and Social Mobility research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She will be collaborating with Dr. Anaïs Ménard, head of the research group, on the project, “Transnational Hearthholds? Exploring Female-Centered Units in Migration.”