Message from the Director

This year marks the Glasscock Center’s 23rd year of seeding and facilitating humanities research at Texas A&M, and it promises to be a particularly exciting one.

Our summer has been a busy one.  Thanks to additional support from the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts & Sciences, the Center hosted its largest cohort yet of Undergraduate Summer Scholars (UGSS).  Led by our Associate Director, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath, the program boasted five faculty directors and fifteen undergraduate students hailing from nine different majors.  This year, our undergraduate humanities research offerings will also include the new Undergraduate Researchers in the Humanities (URTH) program, which is a pre-program for students intending to pursue an individual research project.

This summer, we also welcomed Caitlin Geller to our team as an Administrative Coordinator.

Late last spring and early this summer, a small army of faculty members, graduate students, and teachers from the Bryan and College Station school districts divided into short-listing committees to select the six finalists for the 25th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize. Chosen from an impressive list of books nominated by their publishers, they highlight the high quality and breadth of humanities research being pursued by scholars around the globe. 

This fall we welcome five Faculty and Graduate Residential Fellows, who along with our research fellowship recipients, will share their research at our long-standing Colloquium Series.  We are also looking forward to hosting a number of Short-Term Visiting Fellows and welcoming our second cohort of graduate-student Arrival Fellows. 

This year marks the second year of The Humanities and the Anthropocene, a three-year multidisciplinary faculty-led research initiative, which will offer a wealth of programming to faculty and students.

Our funding opportunities for this year can be found here, and this year’s main fall deadline is October 14th.  Please note that some programs have changed and new ones have been added, so, if you are planning to apply, I recommend starting here to help determine which program best fits your needs.

If you are new to Texas A&M or looking to engage with a new topic, consider joining one or more of our fourteen Research Working Groups.

As usual, our full and ever-populating calendar of events and features on humanities research at Texas A&M can be found on the calendar on our homepage.

On behalf of the Center, I wish you a fruitful start to the semester!

Best wishes,

Troy Bickham

Director and Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director’s Chair
Professor of History