Category: Faculty

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.

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.

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.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Barcelona, Spain. The topic was “Women of Power.”

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, presented at the annual meeting of the Gender and Migration in West Africa Otto Hahn Research Group with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. The topic was “Women of Power.”

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, presented a paper titled “Linguistic Honorifics in Cambodia: Language of Respect or Language of Inequality” at the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) conference in Amsterdam. The paper — part of a panel titled “Accepting inequality in precarious Southeast Asia” — discussed whether language-users who have explicit honorifics built into the grammar of the language are more accepting of inequality.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, presented “Memory Genealogies and Public Health: Authoritarianism and COVID-19 Rumors in Cameroon” to the Arbeitskreis Medical Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.