Short-Term Visiting Fellows 2024-25
Learn about this year's Short-Term Visiting Fellows
Short-Term Visiting Fellows
The Glasscock Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists, and performers to Texas A&M University. Both individuals and groups of the Texas A&M faculty may nominate Visiting Fellows who will contribute to the Glasscock Center’s mission to foster and celebrate the humanities and humanities research at Texas A&M.
Fellowship Details:
Cornelius Shinzen Boots will be in residence at Texas A&M in October, 2024.
More information forthcoming.
Contact host Dr. Martin Regan reganm@tamu.edu with questions.
Cornelius Boots established himself as a woodwind panstylist and hardcore creative composer-performer in the 1990’s and has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. He has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his compositions and teaches his full-blooded, signature style to the curious and dedicated around the world. He is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and has received multiple awards, grants and commissions. Beginning with gospel arrangements in 1996, Boots initiated the bass clarinet quartet as a viable, robust chamber music modality by creating the group Edmund Welles, and has created substantial new composition catalogs for both bass clarinet and shakuhachi. He spent nine years as a progressive rock electric bass clarinetist and bandleader in Chicago and San Francisco, then began exploring primeval nature as a core influence. He started studying shakuhachi in 2001 with Michael Chikuzen Gould, from whom he earned the name Shinzen 深禅 in 2012, a shihan in 2013 and a dai shihan in 2022. From 2016 onward, Boots has played only jinashi shakuhachi with an emphasis on big bamboo (Taimu) and original nature blues. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and the leader/composer of the Wood Prophets, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group. He is a Vandoren Artist and member of Save the Redwoods, Sempervirens Fund and the Orangutan Project. He lives in Pennsylvania. www.corneliusboots.com
Fellowship Details:
Dr. Castro-Gomez will be in residence at Texas A&M in October, 2024.
More information forthcoming.
Contact host Dr. Don Deere dtdeere@tamu.edu with questions.
Santiago Castro-Gómez holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, an MA in Philosophy from the Karl Eberhard Universität Tübingen and a PhD with honors from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. For 25 years he was a professor of Political Philosophy at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and a researcher at the Instituto Pensar. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Goethe University of Frankfurt. He is the author of over 10 books, including Critique of Latin American Reason (1996, English translation in 2021), Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment (2005, English 2021), Tejidos Oníricos (2009), Historia de la gubernamentalidad I-II (2010, 2016), Revoluciones sin sujeto (2015), El tonto y los canallas (2019) and, most recently, La rebelión antropológica (2022). He is a key figure in contemporary social and political philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and decolonial thought.
Fellowship Details:
Dr. McManamon will be in residence at Texas A&M in January, 2024.
More information forthcoming.
Contact host Dr. Deborah Carlson dnc@tamu.edu with questions.
John McManamon is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance History and Medieval Nautical Archaeology at Loyola University Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in Late Medieval-Early Modern European History, and he has won major research grants from the American Academy in Rome (fellow), Harvard’s Renaissance Research Center at Villa I Tatti near Florence (fellow), and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venetian research. McManamon’s scholarship on Renaissance humanism includes two books on Pierpaolo Vergerio the elder, the first Western thinker to propose goals and curricula for an education in the humanities. Among his publications in nautical archaeology, Prof. McManamon has written two books (published by Texas A&M University Press) on the ships of Caligula abandoned in Lake Nemi and supervised the final report on the Byzantine ship that sank near Bozburun, Turkey. Prof. McManamon has taught over 20 university courses that include the undergraduate core in Western Civilization, advanced undergraduate surveys of the Italian Renaissance and European Reformation, advanced undergraduate colloquia on the Human Condition in Early Modern Thought and Humor in Western History, the undergraduate History Capstone seminar, and graduate seminars and colloquia in Italian Humanism, Late Medieval Intellectual History, Encounters between Europe and the Americas, and Medieval Shipwrecks.
Fellowship Details:
Dr. Wesner will be in residence at Texas A&M in January, 2025.
More information forthcoming.
Contact host Dr. Med Perret megperret@tamu.edu with questions.