Research Fellows 2022-23

March 1, 2023

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field. Fellows participate in the Colloquium Series, which will function […]

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows

These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field. Fellows participate in the Colloquium Series, which will function as a working group for these works-in-progress. Projects are chosen on the basis or their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the candidate’s career and field.

Dr. Sarah McNamara

Sarah McNamara | Assistant Professor, History

Sarah McNamara is Assistant Professor of History and core faculty in the Latina/o, Mexican American Studies Minor at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on Latinx, women and gender, labor, and immigration histories in the modern United States. Her first book, Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South is in press (UNC Press, spring 2023). In addition to her monograph, McNamara has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Labor: Studies in Working Class History, contributed to the edited volume, 50 Events that Shaped Latino History, and has an essay forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of U.S. History. Beyond her academic work, McNamara is dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration and sharing research on labor, Latinx, immigration, and women and gender with a broad audience. She has written for Public Seminar, The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle and published an ethnopoetic piece about the experience of undocumented activists in the U.S. South with South Writ Large. McNamara is dedicated to student and community activism. McNamara’s work has received support from the American Historical Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the American Association of University of Women, among others.

Dr. Cinthya Salazar

Cinthya Salazar | Assistant Professor, Educational Administration and Human Resource Development

Dr. Cinthya Salazar received her Ph.D. in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland in 2020 and joined the Educational Administration and Human Resource Development department at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor during the same year. Dr. Salazar's research focuses on the mechanisms used by undocumented students to access, persist, and succeed in higher education. Through her scholarship, she seeks to generate localized retention theories and student success models which can potentially reduce minoritized student's college attrition. Dr. Salazar continues to be an active member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), supporting practitioners committed to creating equitable learning environments for minoritized students. She currently serves as the Region III representative for NASPA's Undocumented Immigrants & Allies Knowledge Community.

Dr. Cara Wallis

Cara Wallis | Associate Professor, Communication

Cara Wallis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and a faculty affiliate with Women’s and Gender Studies at TAMU. Her research concerns the social and cultural implications of digital media use, in particular how such use intersects with gender, class, and place (rural/urban) in China. She is the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press, 2013) and multiple articles and book chapters. She is wrapping up a book manuscript based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork that examined the affective and ethical underpinnings of social media use in China. Her new project focuses on the impact of China’s “zero Covid” policy on rural migrant workers in Beijing. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Journalism and Communication and the Communication University of China. She received her PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California.

Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds Graduate Research Fellowships at $2,000 each. To be eligible, students have to be working on a Doctoral dissertation or Masters thesis but could be at the initial stages of their projects. The outcome should be a dissertation or a thesis, or a significant portion thereof. These students will participate in the Colloquium Series and use the experience as a tool to improve their own writing and projects and help each other to improve the quality of the work being produced as a group.

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.

Brandon Wadlington

Brandon Wadlington | PhD candidate, Philosophy

Brandon Wadlington received his BA in Philosophy from California State University, Stanislaus. He is currently a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M. He is also pursuing a Master’s Degree in English as a part of the Philosophy PhD. His research focuses on the ethics of Plato and Aristotle, with special emphasis on their conceptions of practical wisdom and practical judgment. His Master’s Thesis explores the origins of Ancient Greek conceptions of practical wisdom as they are found in Homer, especially the Iliad.