About Us

About

The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering and celebrating the humanities and humanities research among the community of scholars at Texas A&M University and in the world beyond the academy.

The Glasscock Center awards residential fellowships, research fellowships, grants to co-sponsor events, funding for working groups, publication support, and other awards for independent and cross-disciplinary research in the humanities. Fellows and grant recipients are integral to the Center’s on-going programs and activities through their faculty and graduate colloquia, working groups, and lecture series. The Glasscock Center develops research initiatives, and also recognizes outstanding scholarship annually with an international book prize, the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, which is accompanied by a guest lecture from the recipient and a community event. Coordinated by the Glasscock Center, the Mary Jane and Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics supports activities and events for faculty and students on the investigation of ethical issues.

Growing from the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Studies, founded in 1987, the Center for Humanities Research was created by the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University in 1999 and received a naming endowment in 2002. This name change recognizes an extraordinary gift from Melbern G. Glasscock ’59 and Susanne M. Glasscock, which constitutes a sustaining endowment for the Center.

The Glasscock Center is a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences and is located on the third floor of the Glasscock Building on the Texas A&M University Campus.

Collaborations

As part of its work in the Public Humanities, the Glasscock Center collaborates with various programs, initiatives, and external organizations to benefit faculty and students in interdisciplinary humanities research at Texas A&M University, local communities, and the wider world beyond the academy.

Center of Digital Humanities Research

The mission of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) is to foster multidisciplinary research and publications that employ computational methods in the study of literature, history, and culture. Through software creation, project development, education, and the HVS, CoDHR strives to grasp and remain at the cutting edge of research in the era of mass digitization.

The Glasscock Center collaborates on workshops and other events with the Center of Digital Humanities Research, directed by Dr. Laura Mandell.

Brazos Valley Reads

Brazos Valley Reads (BVR) is a community effort organized by Texas A&M University’s department of Brazos Valley Reads logo English. The program was started in 2005 to encourage bridge-building between TAMU students and faculty, and the Brazos Valley community at large. For the past 13 years, BVR has invited internationally recognized authors, including Geraldine Brooks, Ernest Gaines, Sandra Cisneros, Tim O’Brien, Sherman Alexie, Maxine Hong Kingston, Julia Alvarez, Jennifer Clement, Joy Castro, Colson Whitehead, and Elizabeth Acevedo.

The Glasscock Center normally provides major co-sponsorship of BVR events.

Folger Institute

The Folger Institute is a center for research at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Glasscock Center Folger Institute logo supports Texas A&M’s participation as one of 45 members of the Folger Institute’s Consortium. The Institute offers undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in early modern humanities new communities of scholarly practice, guided access to the Folger’s world class special collections, and innovative opportunities to disseminate research to a variety of audiences, both scholarly and public.

Over the last 5 years, faculty and students at TAMU have received funding from the Folger Institute to participate in seminars, symposia, and workshops.

Humanities Texas

The mission of Humanities Texas is educational excellence. Through programs that improve the Humanities Texas logo quality of classroom teaching, support libraries and museums, and create opportunities for lifelong learning, they advance education throughout the state.

The Glasscock Center has partnered with Humanities Texas on several events over the years. Most recently, we collaborated with TAMU’s Veterans Resource & Support Center to bring Humanities Texas’s Veterans’ Voices program to campus through a series of discussions held in April 2019.

Previous collaborations include: “Pivotal U.S. Elections: American Democracy at Issue” (2016), “The Two World Wars” (2017)

LAUNCH

The “LAUNCH” office is a collaboration of six teams that work together supporting students, faculty, and staff across the Texas A&M University System. Through community building, high-impact practices, personal and professional development opportunities, and the recognition of excellence, LAUNCH encourages all Aggies to expand their minds, take on challenges, dare to dream, and get involved.

The Glasscock Center collaborates with LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research on the Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars program.

CHCI NHC

The Glasscock Center is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, as well as the National Humanities Center. We participate in the CHCI-ACLS Fellowship Residencies Partnership, which provides a residency opportunity at TAMU for ACLS Fellows.