Internal Fellows 2022-23

March 1, 2023

Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellows

Recipients of the annually awarded Internal Faculty Fellowships receive a one-course teaching release in the fellowship year, a $1,000 research bursary, and an office in the Glasscock Center for the fellowship year. These fellows, along with the Glasscock Faculty and Graduate Research Fellows, will present and participate in the Colloquium Series during their fellowship year.

Dr. Evan Haefeli

Evan Haefeli | Professor, History

An historian of colonial North America and the Atlantic world at Texas A&M University, Evan Haefeli previously taught at Princeton University, where he received his PhD, as well as Tufts, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics, where he was a Visiting Fellow. His research primarily focuses on the religious and political origins of early America. He is the author of several books, including New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (2012), Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662 (2020), and editor of Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism (2020). He has also published a number of works on Indigenous North American history.

In his time at the Glasscock Center, Haefeli will work on finishing his next book manuscript, entitled, The Perils of Pluralism: Religious Tolerance and the Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1660-1783.

Dr. Christopher Menzel

Christopher Menzel | Professor, Philosophy

Christopher Menzel is professor of philosophy at Texas A&M. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and has been a research fellow at Stanford University (CSLI), CSIRO Melbourne, Saarland University (IFOMIS), the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU), and Notre Dame. He has published widely in the areas of knowledge representation, philosophy of religion, logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics. He is currently writing a book on the logic and metaphysics of the alethic modalities (necessity and possibility). This will be his focus during his residency at the Glasscock Center.

Glasscock Graduate Residential Fellows

The Graduate Residential Fellowships are designed to support outstanding research in the humanities by providing selected graduate students a semester of residence in the Glasscock Center to focus their efforts on writing their doctoral dissertations.

Victoria Green

Victoria Green | PhD Candidate, Philosophy

Victoria is a current PhD student in the Department of Philosophy and has received an M.S. in Primate Behavior from Central Washington University. Her area of study is in animal and environmental ethics. Specifically, she focuses her research on scientific methodology and the relationship between scientists and their nonhuman animal subjects in wild, noncaptive settings. She is a student in the Applied Biodiversity Science graduate certificate program and works primarily on cross-disciplinary collaborations for her research projects, including projects that speak to the ethics of conservation practices, ethics of new technologies, and how science and conservation reflect society’s relationship with the natural world.

Janet Cho

Janet Cho | PhD Candidate, English

Janet Eunjin Cho is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Texas A&M. Her research explores the interplay between history and aesthetics in Asian American literature to recover the materiality of Asian diasporas against the Eurocentric traditions of valorizing aesthetic sensibility as a condition of the universal human subject. Her current dissertation project investigates how embodied foodways of queer and women Asian (im)migrants inform the formalistic and stylistic practices of contemporary Asian American women writers while vibrantly illuminating the histories of colonialism, nationalism at home and abroad, and racism inflicted upon Asian diasporic bodies from the twentieth century to present. Janet’s most recent publication appears in Open Words; her article, “‘How Good to Eat!’: Writing Asia Through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,” is forthcoming at Modern Fiction Studies.