Category: Faculty

Annette Nierobisz, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Carleton, published a new book titled American Idle: Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era, now available from Rutgers University Press. The book explores the challenges faced by older white-collar workers navigating job loss in a recessionary economy marked by employer preference for younger workers.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, was featured in the Carleton News for her long-running ACE course Anthropology of Health and Illness, which she has been teaching for over 20 years.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton, published a research article in Ethos, the journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, titled “Contesting parenting expertise: Constructing good mothering and searching for dignity in Cameroonian Berlin.”

Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton, was a discussant for the panel “Cambodia in the World: Khmer Encounters with Others” at the Association of Asian Studies annual conference in Columbus, Ohio on March 15. Yin was also invited to be part of the Thailand Laos Cambodia (TLC) Studies Group‘s “New Research and Emerging Voices Roundtable,” where she was one of four junior scholars who shared their research with the wider community of TLC scholars at the conference.

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 at the Santa Clara County Office of Education in San Jose, 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.

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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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.