Fall 2026 Glasscock Residential Fellows
Meet our Faculty and Graduate Residential Fellows for Fall 2026
Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellows
Recipients of the annually awarded Internal Faculty Fellowships receive a one-course teaching release in the fellowship year and an office in the Glasscock Center for the semester to pursue a major research project.
Dr. Susanneh Bieber | Associate Professor, Performance, Visualization, & Fine Arts
Susanneh Bieber is an art and architectural historian with a joint appointment in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts and the College of Architecture. Her research focuses on the relationship between art, architecture, and the environment during the mid-twentieth century. She is author of American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 (Routledge 2024), which reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Art Journal, American Art, Journal of Architectural Education, and Getty Research Journal, she is recipient of 2020 Scholarship of Design Article Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and was awarded the 2017 Terra Foundation International Essay Prize. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the National Humanities Center. During her time as Glasscock Fellow, Dr. Bieber will work on her book Ecologies of Air: Inflatable Art and Architecture, which explores how inflatables make the invisible medium of air palpable as a form-shaping element that is at once culturally and geographically specific and globally entangled. The book in particular centers the work of Brazilian artists and architects of the mid-twentieth century.
Dr. Olga Dror | Professor, History
Educated in the Soviet Union, Israel, and the United States, Olga Dror is currently a professor of history at Texas A&M University. She has authored, translated, and co-edited five books and numerous articles. The focus of her research ranges from Vietnamese and Chinese theistic religions and European missionaries in Asia in early modern times to the study of the civilian experience during the Tet Offensive in Hue, to North and South Vietnamese youth during the Second Indochina War to political religions.
Her most recent monograph Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975 was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in the leading journals of several fields Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of Social History, Journal of Cold War Studies. Among her awards are a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship, a National Humanities Center Fellowship, fellowships in Collegium de Lyon, France, and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Nantes, France. She is currently working on a monograph titled Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood, where, among other things, she focuses on the examination of Ho Chi Minh’s cult in the construction and maintaining the Vietnamese state. She also will bring in a comparison of Ho Chi Minh’s cults to the cults of other communist leaders.
Dr. Amy Earhart | Associate Professor, English
Amy E. Earhart is a Full Professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. She is a recipient of a NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication and a NEH Summer Stipend as well as local awards for her research, the Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow and Texas A&M University Arts & Humanities Fellow. Her teaching has been recognized by the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award-Teaching and the Montague-CTE Scholar Teaching Award. In addition, Earhart’s work in public humanities has included work with Humanities Texas, both through board membership and participation in teacher training workshops, and with community members to document the Millican Massacre, for which she was honored by the Brazos Valley African American Museum in 2025.
Her digital projects are constructed to expand access to Black humanities materials, as is the case with projects The Millican Massacre, 1868, DIBB: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project, and “Alex Haley’s Malcolm X: ‘The Malcolm X I knew’ and notecards from The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (a collaborative project with undergraduate and graduate students published in Scholarly Editing). Earhart has published scholarship on a variety of digital humanities topics, with work that includes a monographs Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon (Stanford UP 2025), Traces of Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (U Michigan Press 2015), a co-edited collection The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (U Michigan Press 2010), and a number of articles and book chapters in volumes including the Debates in Digital Humanities series, DHQ, DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, and Textual Cultures.
She is at work on a monograph "The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution.”
Dr. Rachel Moran | Professor, History
Rachel Louise Moran is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where she teaches courses on modern US history, women’s history, and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on how political cultures and institutions have shaped Americans’ relationships with health and wellness in areas including nutrition and fitness, psychiatry, and reproductive and sexual health. She is the author of Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Her current book project explores the development of the Kegel pelvic floor exercise and the overlaps between women’s health and wellness culture since the 1940s. Dr. Moran has published research in the Journal of American History, Gender & History, Social History of Medicine, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, among others.
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.
Anand Datla | Graduate Student, Geography
Anand Datla is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography whose dissertation, Capitalizing Amaravati: Urbanization, Speculation, and the Geography of Social Difference, examines how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is assembling a new capital city on the fertile lands of the Krishna River delta. Drawing on sustained fieldwork conducted since December 2023, the project traces four interlocking processes: the material and discursive strategies through which farmer consent was secured under the 2015 Land Pooling Scheme; the state's staging of urban development through spectacle, ceremony, and incomplete infrastructure; the transformation of agrarian land, livelihood, and identity among the communities who pooled their land; and the political and legal uncertainties that continue to haunt the city's trajectory. Theoretically grounded in urban political ecology, critical infrastructure studies, and state entrepreneurialism, the work brings humanistic social science methods — semi-structured interviews, ethnographic observation, and spatial analysis — into conversation with the lived experience of residents negotiating one of South Asia's most contested urbanization experiments. Before the doctoral program, Anand spent more than two decades in consulting and applied development practice across India, Botswana, the Middle East, and North America, eventually directing national programs on water governance and community-engaged transformation at Tata Trusts. He has also published peer-reviewed research on water governance in Water Alternatives.
Our Residential fellows, along with the Glasscock Faculty and Graduate Research Fellows, will present and participate in the Colloquium Series during their fellowship year.
Visiting Scholar
The Glasscock Center is hosting an external scholar at Texas A&M this year.
Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga | Australian Catholic University
Utilizing ethnographic, archival, and oral history methods, I specialize in the history and contemporary practice of Christianity in eastern Africa, especially among Catholic communities in Uganda and Rwanda.
My current book project, Networks of Devotion, Landscapes of Faith: Catholic Charismatic Movements in Western Uganda analyzes how Catholic charismatic lay associations form and sustain different styles of Catholic practice, contributing to internal differentiation of the Catholic tradition at both local and global levels. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and archival research in Uganda, I compare the ritual life, institutional structures, and outreach practices of two different Catholic associations devoted to the Holy Spirit in Uganda, one transnational and the other regional. I argue that the two associations’ healing ministries, organizational cultures, and devotional habits nurture contrasting sensibilities about the nature and scope of ecclesial participation and belonging, offering insight into the informal ecclesiologies that animate global Catholic practice.
More broadly, my work explores how devotional practices and healing ministries interact with development efforts and contribute to post-conflict social reconciliation in Uganda and Rwanda. My research also examines gendered patterns of religious practice and leadership in eastern Africa and women's history in the region, including a project investigating the history of Catholic women religious in Rwanda.