Internal Fellows 2024-25
Meet our 2024-25 Glasscock Internal Fellows
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.
Juan Alonzo | Associate Professor, English
Dr. Juan Alonzo is Associate Professor of English whose areas of concentration include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, with specializations in Chicanx literature and film studies. Dr. Alonzo is interested in exploring literature and popular culture’s engagements with and critiques of modernity. In Badmen, Bandits and Folk Heroes: The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film (Arizona, 2009), Alonzo argues that the representation of Mexican American male identity in literature during the first half of the twentieth century is characterized simultaneously by avowal and disavowal; in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Mexican American fiction and film, contingency and hybridity emerge as the dominant expressions of identity.
Alonzo’s most recent essay, “Cinematic Style and the Representation of Violence in Rolando Hinojosa-Smith’s Ask a Policeman,” is published in The Journal of Narrative Theory, 54.1 (Winter 2024). Taken together with his scholarship on the films of Robert Rodriguez (the Machete series) and his current examination of the short stories and novels of Oscar Cásares, Alonzo is interrogating these narratives as contemporary cultural expressions that provide a new vision of citizenship and belonging in U.S. society.
Priya Jain | Associate Professor, Architecture
Priya Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. An architect licensed in both the US and India, she has worked on the reuse and restoration of a diverse range of buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston, the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College and Jaisalmer Fort, India. Her teaching and research focus on twentieth century “recent-past” buildings, particularly South Asian architectural history and preservation within a transnational context. Her work has been published in the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Architectural Theory Review (ATR), Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, amongst others. Priya co-chairs the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group, serves on the SAH Heritage Conservation Committee and is the Communications Lead of the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group. She is on the board of the Historic Preservation Education Foundation (HPEF), is Field Editor (Architecture) for the Getty Conservation Institute AATA Online (Abstracts of Conservation Literature) and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE).
Martin Peterson | Professor, Philosophy
Martin Peterson holds the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Jr. Chair in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Dr. Peterson work on topics in normative ethics, applied ethics (especially engineering ethics) and decision theory. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Dr. Peterson was a professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Prior to that Dr. Peterson worked for three years at Cambridge University. Dr. Peterson received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Jyotsna Vaid | Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Jyotsna Vaid is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Affiliated Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Neuroscience at Texas A&M University. Her research takes a comparative, cross-linguistic approach to the study of language processing in bilingual users of a variety of languages (French, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi and Urdu). She has also conducted research on creative and social aspects of language use. The author of over 100 journal articles, she has edited or co-edited two monographs and three books: Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives (Vaid, editor, e1986), Creative Thought (Smith, Ward, & Vaid, editors, 1997) and The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid (Vaid & Hoffman, editors, Duke University Press, 2025). Vaid’s research has been supported by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Science Foundation, and by numerous internal grants. She was awarded an Eminent Scholar Award in 2020 by Texas A&M University’s Aggie Women’s Network and the Office of the President. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Psychonomic Society. For several years she was Editor of Writing Systems Research and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. Since 2016, she is Co-Convenor of the South Asia Studies Working Group at the Glasscock Center. From 1983-1996 she was founding editor of a feminist publication, the Committee on South Asian Women Bulletin, which is the subject of her project during her time as Glasscock Fellow.
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.
Sirsha Nandi | PhD candidate, English
Sirsha Nandi is a PhD candidate in the department of English at Texas A&M University. Sirsha’s research interests include transnational literature and culture, South Asian studies, and global anglophone literature. Sirsha’s dissertation Cast(e)ing Aesthetics examines the potentials and limitations of aesthetic imagination surrounding caste as it pertains to the political and social processes that inhibit caste identities. Her project claims that aesthetic is not an escape from activism, rather propels it as it makes evident political investments usually concealed by ideology. Sirsha’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoHDR), Texas A&M by the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
Tanner Ogle | PhD candidate, History
Tanner Ogle is a PhD candidate specializing in the intellectual and political history of the British Atlantic World. His current research centers on the politicalization of memory and his dissertation explores how the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 (Britain's last civil war) influenced policies and perceptions throughout the British Empire during the American Revolutionary Era (1763-1783). A recent recipient of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era's Katherine Aaslestad/Charles Crouch Prize and Scottish History Society's Rosebery Prize, his research demonstrates the interconnected nature of the British Atlantic Empire during the long eighteenth century.
Jennifer Wells | PhD candidate, History
Jennifer Wells is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Texas A&M University specializing in British colonial North America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her research explores the social ambiguities of the urban South following the Revolution, a transformative period when questions of national identity and belonging swirled. Her dissertation analyzes the petition of Christopher McPherson, a free man of color who attempted to repeal an ordinance prohibiting Black Americans from owning or riding as passengers in carriages in Richmond, Virginia. Using the petition as a lens into the early national period, she investigates veteran affairs, the influence of polite culture on race and class, educational reforms, apocalyptic prophets, and the history of early American psychiatric institutions.