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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.

Wes Markofski, associate professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton, was quoted in a Washington Post article titled “A New Movement Aims to Remake Evangelicals’ Relationship to Politics.”

Annette Nierobisz, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton, presented findings from her follow-up study of older, unemployed workers at the 2024 American Sociological Association annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec. The paper, “Social (In)Security: A Study of the Enduring Effects of Late-Career Job Loss,” is co-authored with Dana Sawchuk, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Daniel Williams, associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Carleton, presented his research on Afro-Brazilian immigrants titled “Afro-Brazilian Immigrants in the North Star State: Negotiating Blackness and Framing Race after George Floyd” at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute’s (Harvard University) Third Continental Conference at the University of São Paulo School of Law. His research illustrates how generational and regional racial formations inform racial meanings.

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, published a blog post titled “From Long Beach to Cambodia: Finding my community and claiming my voice” for the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) and was quoted in a report. In 2017, Yin participated in their Leadership and Advocacy Training (LAT) program in Washington, D.C., where participants are not only educated on issues that affect Southeast Asian American communities, they also learn how to advocate for those communities when speaking to policymakers and politicians. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the LAT, SEARAC asked Yin to write about her experience.