News

SOAN and Dance alum Phil Chan ’06, who is currently serving as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance at Carleton, was featured in a Carleton news article called “The Oakland Ballet Company comes to Carleton” which describes how members of the Oakland Ballet Company brought a night of ballet, choreographed by Chan, to Carleton.

SOAN and Educational Studies alum Clarissa Guzman ’22 was featured in “Creating a Climate for Community Change in SE Minnesota”, a CERTs article about the impact of local climate adaptation efforts with Latino neighbors in partnership with the local Growing Up Healthy program of the Healthy Community Initiative. Clarissa was a CCCE summer intern with HCI, funded through the Career Center.

SOAN and Dance alum Phil Chan ’06, who will be serving as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance at Carleton in the fall, has been recognized as a “Next 50” arts leader by the Kennedy Center for his and co-founder Georgina Pazcoguin’s global diversity initiative Final Bow for Yellowface. The initiative raises awareness and promotes inclusivity through sincere representation of all ethnicities in the performing arts.

SOAN major and Archeology minor Kalju Maegi ’23 was featured in a Carleton news article called “Focus on community guides Carleton summer research trip to Peru” about Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sarah Kennedy’s month-long trip to Puno, Peru with five students. Maegi and the other students conducted archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in Peru by studying heavy metal poisoning in soil and interacting with the community affected by it.

SOAN alum Jeremy Sutherland ’11 talked to Nice Kicks about his streetwear brand Hybrid Nation and his dedication to representing diversity through the clothing he makes. The idea and name for the brand stemmed from a late night chat with some fellow Carls when Sutherland was a student at Carleton.

SOAN alum Mario Luis Small ’96, Quetelet Professor of Social Science in the department of Sociology at Columbia University, was featured in Columbia News on August 17th. In the profile, he discusses “how his early years in Panama and his iconoclastic view of academia have contributed to his path-breaking research on networks, urban inequality, and qualitative methodology.”

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton and co-director of Africana Studies, recently published “Afterword to Mothering Practices in Times of Legal Precarity” in a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The piece relates findings about how displaced women adapt their mothering practices to the uncertain legal situations in which they live to key terms and issues like agency, structure, time orientations, gendered racialization and belonging.

SOAN major Maddie Fry ’22 was featured in Comps Insider for their senior comps project entitled “Bringing a Friend Along,” which explores philanthropy and community life in Northfield.

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, associate professor of anthropology at Carleton, was recently interviewed by Amna Khalid, professor of history at Carleton, on an episode of Banished called “Whose Tacos? Cultural Appropriation and the Politics of Cooking and Eating Food.”

SOAN alum Ed Liebow ’75, who is currently the executive director of the American Anthropological Association, published “Essential Wastewater Work” in Anthropology News.