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  • Understanding Small Hydropower in China’s Southeast Frontier, Yunnan Province

    Dr. Thomas Ptak | Texas State University
    March 28, 3pm

  • Why Context Matters

    Dr. Alicia Juarrero
    Presented by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative

  • Illuminating Humanities: Uma Sarkar

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Uma Sarkar | Department of Computer Science
    by Megan Bodily

  • New Directions in African Studies

    Conference on March 8, 2024

  • Colloquium Series: Theodore George & Olivia Thomas 4/9/24

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Incense: A Performance by Kaoru Watanabe

    Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe will perform on March 7

  • “It’s Just Like Swan Lake!” Movement and Meaning in Popular Culture

    Dr. Jen Atkins, Florida State University
    March 6, 3:00 PM

  • Afro-Latinx Poetry: an Invisibilized Canon

    Dr. Santos-Febres will deliver the keynote lecture in the 2/29 "Afro-Latinx Life & Writing" Symposium

  • Illuminating Humanities: Stephen Badalyan Riegg

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Stephen Badalyan Riegg | Department of History
    by Megan Bodily

  • Fallon-Marshall Lecture Series: Dr. Carlos Blanton

    The Glasscock Center presents the Fallon-Marshall lecture series. Dr. Blanton (History) will deliver a lecture on 4/10/24.
    "The Texas State of Mind: Navigating Myth and Politics to Interpret Texas History"

  • The Ecognosis Seminars with Richard Doyle

    Presented by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative
    Feb 21 & 22

  • Submissions Open: 25th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize

    Submissions for the 25th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize are due
    2/29/24

  • Colloquium Series: Kevin O’Sullivan & Haley Burke 2/27/24

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • 2023-24 Humanities Research Working Groups

    The Glasscock Center has 16 Humanities Research Working Groups in 2023-24. Visit our Working Groups page to learn more about each group and find group activities to join.

  • Colloquium Series: Reginal Mills & Tristan Krause 2/13/24

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Sweet Fuel: Brazilian Ethanol in Historical Perspective

    February 12, 3pm: Dr. Jennifer Eaglin | Ohio State University
    Energy Humanities and the Global South speaker series

  • Illuminating Humanities: Colin Peek

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Colin Peek | Department of Global Languages and Cultures
    by Megan Bodily

  • AI & the Humanities

    Dr. Matthew Jones, Princeton | Notable Lecture
    Feb 8 at 12pm in MSC 2500

  • Spring 2024

    After a freezing cold start to the semester, things are starting to warm up on campus and in the Glasscock Center.

  • Melt, Rise, and the Future of Water: A Climate Story

    January 29, 3pm: Dr. Cymene Howe | Rice University
    Energy Humanities and the Global South speaker series

  • Colloquium Series: Susanneh Bieber & Denise Meda-Lambru 2/6/24

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Illuminating Humanities: Allegra Midgette

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Allegra Midgette | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
    by Megan Bodily

  • Call for Applications – 2024 Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program

    The Arts & Humanities Fellowship invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and creative arts pursuing projects that embody exceptional research.

  • Application for Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center

    In partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to issue a call for applications for a Summer Residential Scholar at the National Humanities Center (NHC).

  • Illuminating Humanities: Diego Sepulveda-Allen

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Diego Sepulveda-Allen | Philosophy and History
    by Megan Bodily

  • Illuminating Humanities: Janet Eunjin Cho

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Janet Eunjin Cho | Department of English
    by Megan Bodily

  • 2023-24 Colloquium Series Schedule

    Check out the schedule for our 2023-24 Colloquium Series, in which our Fellows will present their works-in-progress.

  • Colloquium Series: Chaitanya Lakkimsetti & Anand Datla 10/31/23

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Announcing the winner of the 24th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize

    24th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize Lecture
    Nov 29 | 12pm | MSC 2300D
    Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

  • Illuminating Humanities: Lauren Currie

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Lauren Currie | History
    by Megan Bodily

  • Colloquium Series: Robin Veldman & Michael Portal 10/24/23

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Colloquium Series: Maddalena Cerrato & Valentina Aduen 10/17/23

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Supporting Humanities Research at TAMU: Coffee Conversation Series

    Oct 5 & 12 An informal series over coffee and refreshments that overviews Texas A&M's external grant procedures as well as funding opportunities for Hispanic Serving Institutions. Bring your questions and listen to comments on the process by recently-funded faculty.

  • Annual Report 2022-23

    Check out our Annual Report on our 2022-23 activities!

  • Illuminating Humanities: Dr. Glen Miller

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Glen Miller | Philosophy and Humanities
    by Megan Bodily

  • Colloquium Series: Huyen Nguyen & Zachary Riggins 10/3/23

    The Colloquium Series offers Glasscock Center Fellows an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

  • Funding Opportunity from the MLA: Pathways Step Grants Application Open! (Deadline: 10/10/23)

    Pathways Step Grants Application Open! (Deadline: 10/10/23)

  • Finalists for 24th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize

    Announcing the finalists for the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792  (Oxford University Press) Andrew Benjamin Bricker From the shortlisting committee- “In Libel and Lampoon, Bricker makes early modern legal history relevant to the present by demonstrating that law is central to our understanding of the […]

  • Illuminating Humanities: Madelyn Kennedy

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Madelyn Kennedy | University Studies, Society, Ethics, and Law (S.E.A.L.)
    by Megan Bodily

  • Fall 2023

    As we embark on the Glasscock Center’s 22nd year, I want to draw your attention to some of our upcoming events and share a few announcements.

  • 2023-24 Glasscock Graduate Arrival Fellows

    Meet our 2023-24 Glasscock Graduate Arrival Fellows

  • Now Hiring: Undergraduate Student Apprentice

    Undergraduates in good academic standing are invited to apply to work at the Glasscock Center!
    Pay: $15/hr

  • New Research Initiative: The Humanities and the Anthropocene

    The Glasscock Center has launched a new research initiative, The Humanities and the Anthropocene.
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Adam Rosenthal, GLAC

  • Short-Term Visiting Fellows 2023-24

    Learn about this year's Short-Term Visiting Fellows

  • Cornell University Society for the Humanities 2024-25 Fellowships Call for Applications

    The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars whose projects reflect on the 2024-25 theme of Silence. Up to six fellows will be appointed. The fellowships are held for one year (August through July). Each Society Fellow will receive $60,000.

  • Research Fellows 2023-24

    Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field. Fellows participate in the Colloquium Series, which will function […]

  • Internal Fellows 2023-24

    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 […]

  • 2023-24 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars

    Meet our 2023-24 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!

  • Illuminating Humanities: Kate Girvin

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Kate Girvin | Philosophy & Humanities
    by Jennifer Wells '10

  • 2023-24 Colloquium Schedule Coming Soon

    Stay tuned for the presentation schedule of our 2023-24 Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series.

  • Illuminating Humanities: April Lee Hatfield

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    April Lee Hatfield | History
    by Jennifer Wells '10

  • Publication year 2022

    Adam Rosenthal, Global Languages and Culture Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) Adam Seipp, History The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War (Texas A&M University Press, 2022) Adam Seipp, History | Internal Faculty Residential Fellow, 2020-2021 Fulda Gap: A board game, West German society, and a […]

  • Publication year 2021

    Brian Rouleau, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2021 Empire’s Nursery Children’s Literature and the Origins of the American Century (NYU Press, 2021) Britt Mize and Bruce Gilchrist Beowulf as Children’s Literature (Toronto, 2021) Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology & Vanita Reddy, English | Three-Year Seminar Grant Recipients, (2019-2022) #MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) Claire Katz, Philosophy | Grant Recipient […]

  • Publication year 2020

    Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology | Faculty Research Fellowship Recipient Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS and Citizenship in India (NYU Press, 2020) Craig Kallendorf, International Studies Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance (Brill, 2020) Damon Bach, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2020 The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents (University Press of Kansas, 2020) […]

  • Publication year 2019

    Anne Morey and Claudia Nelson, English Topologies of the Classical World in Children’s Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Oxford University Press, 2019) Alain Lawo-Sukam, Hispanic Studies | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2019 La Poesia Guineoecuatoriana en Su Contexto Colonial y (Trans)nacional (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2019) Livia Stonescu, Visualization | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2018 Pictorial Art of El Greco: […]

  • “Ebb and Flow Life of the Bhasha Manush: Flooded and Abandoned in the Atharo Bhati”

    Environmental Humanities Blog Presented by the Glasscock Center's Humanities: Land Sea Space initiative

  • 2023 College of Arts & Sciences Awards

    The Glasscock Center team has received 3 awards from the College of Arts & Sciences - 1 in each category: Student, Staff, & Faculty

  • Illuminating Humanities: Brian Linn

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Brian Linn | History
    by Jennifer Wells '10

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Dr. Leo Cardoso (PVFA) 4/18/23

    "Presidential Remarks, Criminal Probes, and Political Crises in Contemporary Brazil"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 966 5862 6914
    Passcode: Cardoso

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Brandon Wadlington (PHIL) 4/11/23

    "Virtue and Reason in the Iliad"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 999 3571 0284
    Passcode: Wadlington

  • Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court

    Sponsored by the Law and Society Working Group at the Glasscock Center.
    Presented by the Glasscock Center’s Public Humanities initiative.
    This event is free and open to the public.

  • An image of Japanese physician directories.

    Illuminating Humanities: Hoi-eun Kim

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Hoi-eun Kim | History
    by Jennifer Wells '10

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Dr. Cinthya Salazar (EAHRD) 3/28/23

    "Where do I go from here? Examining the Transition of Graduating Undocumented College Students"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 978 7784 0583
    Passcode: Salazar

  • Short-Term Visiting Fellows 2022-23

    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. Dr. Scott L. […]

  • Affiliated Fellows 2022-23

    Affiliated Fellows Affiliated Fellows are those whose fellowships originate outside of the Glasscock Center but are incorporated into our programming and fellows’ cohort. They participate in the scholarly community of the Center. Dr. Rachel Lim Expand Rachel LimAssistant Visiting Professor, History Rachel Lim is an Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Fellow and a Visiting […]

  • Research Fellows 2022-23

    Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field. Fellows participate in the Colloquium Series, which will function […]

  • Internal Fellows 2022-23

    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 […]

  • Fallon-Marshall Lecture Series: Dr. Brian Rouleau

    The Glasscock Center presents the Fallon-Marshall lecture series. Dr. Rouleau (History) will deliver a lecture on 4/12/23.
    "Comic Book Panels and the 38th Parallel: The Korean War in American Popular Culture"

  • Fallon-Marshall Lecture Series: Dr. Joshua DiCaglio

    The Glasscock Center presents the Fallon-Marshall lecture series. Dr. DiCaglio (English) will deliver a lecture on 4/5/23.
    "Science has Transformed you: Scale Between Science and the Humanities"

  • Headshot of Victoria Green, Philosophy.

    Illuminating Humanities: Victoria Green

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Victoria Green | Philosophy and Humanities

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Rachel Lim (HIST) 2/14/23

    "Itinerant Belonging: Korean Diasporic Migration to and from Mexico"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 952 8369 4500
    Passcode: Lim

  • Call for Applications – 2023 Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program

    The Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and creative arts pursuing projects that embody exceptional research. Primary goals of the program are to support significant advancement or completion of a major piece of scholarly or creative work and increase external fellowship application success. Projects may be at any stage of development.

  • Message from the Director

    Spring 2023
    Dr. Troy Bickham
    Interim Director

  • Spring 2023

    This academic year is proving to be another busy one for the Glasscock Center.

  • Illuminating Humanities: Adam Rosenthal

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Adam Rosenthal | Global Languages & Cultures

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Christopher Menzel (PHIL) 11/15/22

    "A Brief History of Nonexistent Objects: Precursors to the Possibilism-Actualism Debate"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 949 2708 4873
    Passcode: Menzel

  • Illuminating Humanities: Margaret Ezell & Kevin O’Sullivan

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Margaret Ezell and Kevin O'Sullivan | English

  • Headshot of Victoria Green, Philosophy.

    Graduate Colloquium Series: Victoria Green (PHIL) 10/25/22

    "Habituating Wild Primates: Ethics of the Researcher-Subject Relationship and its Implications for Field Research Methodology"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 924 6491 9853
    Passcode: Green

  • Now Hiring: Graduate Research Assistant

    The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is hiring a Graduate Research Assistant to begin in January 2023.

  • Message from the Director

    Fall 2022
    Dr. Troy Bickham
    Interim Director

  • 2022-23 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 […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Dr. Cinthya Salazar (EAHRD) 3/28/23

    "Where do I go from here? Examining the Transition of Graduating Undocumented College Students"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 978 7784 0583
    Passcode: Salazar

  • Fall 2022

    Arriving at Texas A&M in 2003 as an assistant professor in the Department of History, I benefited enormously from the Glasscock Center both as a generous source of grants and, more important, as an intellectual home.

  • 23rd Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize

    Dr. Nadia Y. Kim Winner of the 23rd annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford University Press, 2021) Public Lecture & Award Presentation Tuesday, February 28, 20232:00pmMSC 2404 and Zoom Registration required.   Reviews of Refusing Death “Immigrant environmental justice movements are […]

  • Global Humanities Institutes Call for Proposals Now Open

    CHCI is thrilled to invite proposals for Global Humanities Institutes to take place in 2024, with a proposal deadline of December 15, 2022. With generous support from the Mellon Foundation, we expect to fund two institutes at the level of $200,000 each. For more information and examples, read the full call for proposals. Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs) are multi-year projects devoted to […]

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Allegra Midgette (PSYC) 9/27/22

    "Learning How to Care: Taking a Psychological Approach"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 965 0324 4162
    Passcode: Midgette

  • Meet the Fellows | 2022-23

    Internal Faculty Residential Fellows
    Faculty Research Fellows
    Graduate Research Fellows

  • Glasscock Summer Research Fellows 2022

    This fellowship was offered for the purpose of supporting faculty and graduate research from within the Texas A&M community, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to impede research activities. Each fellowship is entitled to a faculty member and allows a graduate student worker a full-time GAR position during the 3 summer months. 2022 Summer Research Fellows […]

  • Modern Language Association – Public Humanities Incubator

    Modern Language Association is currently accepting applications for the MLA Public Humanities Incubator, a new program for graduate students interested in public humanities.

  • 2022-23 Colloquium Schedule Coming Soon

    Stay tuned for the presentation schedule of our 2022-23 Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series.

  • 2022-23 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars

    Meet our 2022-23 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!

  • Illuminating Humanities: Martin Regan

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Martin Regan | Performance Studies

  • Impact

    Check out our Impact page to find out more about how we make a difference.

  • Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference Report

    March 31st and April 1st, 2022 Conference Report and Event Recordings now available!

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Jesse O’Rear (PERF) 4/12/22

    "Embodied Knowledge, LGBTQ+ Students, and Kinesthetic Allyship on Campus"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 914 3786 9905
    Passcode: ORear

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Martin Peterson (PHIL) 4/5/22

    "Aristotle and the Virtues: How should we understand the doctrine of the mean"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 982 4121 4995
    Passcode: Peterson

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Martin Regan (PERF) 3/22/22

    "Navigating the Past, Embracing the Present: Cross-Cultural Japanese Compositional Hybridity in Theory and Practice"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 913 8922 0366
    Passcode: Regan

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Cinthya Salazar (EAHRD) 3/8/22

    "Research Collectives With, For, and By Undocumented Scholars: Creating Spaces for Revelation, Validation, Resistance, Empowerment, and Liberation in Higher Education"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 948 1959 2604
    Passcode: Salazar

  • Message from the Director, Spring 2022

    Message from the Director
    Spring 2022

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Joowon Yi (POLS) 3/1/2022

    "Once a Slave? The Slave Trade and Military Formation under Colonialism"
    Meeting ID: 997 7232 4169
    Password: JoowonYi

  • Research Lunch Series: 3/28/2022

    The Glasscock Research Lunch Series is an occasional series which provides the opportunity for students, faculty, research groups, and others to gather in conversation about various humanities-related topics and promote humanities-oriented research. If you are interested in hosting a Research Lunch at the Glasscock Center, please inquire at glasscock@tamu.edu. Monday, March 28, 2022 | 1:30-2:30 […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Denise Meda Calderon (PHIL) 2/22/2022

    "Altar Spaces among the Living and Dead: Chicanx Practices of Spiritual and Community Transformations"
    Meeting ID: 939 7538 3030
    Password: Calderon

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. Connie Barroso Garcia (EPSY) 2/15/22

    Investigating the Role of Interpretation Biases on Anxiety in a Math-Specific Context
    Meeting ID: 952 7128 2100
    Password: CBGarcia

  • Research Lunch Series: 2/16/2022

    “Personal Experience Working for the ADVANCE COVID-19 Research Project”
    Aigul Seralinova, Ph.D. candidate | Anthropology
    Dr. Cynthia Werner, Professor | Anthropology; Director of ADVANCE

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. Kristy Pathakis (POLS) 2/9/22

    Who Belongs? How political belonging uncertainty stifles the political voices of minorities in America
    Meeting ID: 977 3484 5822
    Password: Pathakis

  • Glasscock Academic Professional Track Faculty Fellows

    Jessica Ray Herzogenrath Instructional Assistant Professor, History Jessica Ray Herzogenrath researches U.S. cultural history, in particular popular performances, drawing on her experience performing, choreographing, and teaching dance. She explores how embodied practices simultaneously reveal long-established cultural traditions and hold the potential for immediate change. Her manuscript-in-progress – Modern Folk: Dancing American in the Midwest Metropolis, 1890-1940 – […]

  • Spring 2022

    The Glasscock Center has been hosting and supporting a range of research activities this semester, and I’d like to update everyone on our news and upcoming events.

  • Illuminating Humanities Cover Image of spotlights highlighting the words

    Illuminating Humanities: Michael Collins

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Michael Collins | English

  • Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference

    Spring 2022
    Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference Program
    March 31 - April 1

  • NEH Regional Grant-Writing Workshop (Virtual)

    The Glasscock Center is hosting a regional grant-writing workshop with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on January 28, 2022.

  • 2020-2021 Annual Report

    The Glasscock Center is delighted to share our 2020-2021 Annual Report! Information on our grants, programs, and events is included. We extend our special thanks to all of our fellows, grant awardees, audiences, and the campus and wider community for their support of the humanities and humanistic social sciences. This report, and those of previous […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Patton Small (PERF) 11/16/2021

    "Being and Body"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 941 1166 9315
    Passcode: Small

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Michael Collins (ENG) 11/9/2021

    "Poetry and the Prison Industrial Complex"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 910 2139 3343
    Passcode: Collins

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Tianna Uchacz (VIZ) 11/2/2021

    "Reading Between the Lines: Ornament Prints and the Tacit Know-How of Material Translation"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 987 4402 3887
    Passcode: Uchacz

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Daniel Conway (PHIL) 10/26/2021

    "First Contact: Preventing the Normalization of Genocide"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 925 0142 8834
    Passcode: Conway

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Robert Duran (SOCI) 10/19/2021

    "No Justice, No Peace: Police Shootings as Legalized Violence"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 956 2354 5735
    Passcode: Duran

  • Illuminating Humanities Cover Image of spotlights highlighting the words

    Illuminating Humanities: Denise Meda Calderon

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Denise Meda Calderon | Philosophy

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Brian Linn (HIST) 10/12/2021

    "Real Soldiering: The U.S. Army Between its Wars"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 939 9387 0822
    Passcode: Linn

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate: Call for Applications

    The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University is pleased to be accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate beginning in the spring semester of 2022.

  • Research Lunch Series: 10/13/2021

    The Glasscock Research Lunch Series is an occasional series which provides the opportunity for students, faculty, research groups, and others to gather in conversation about various humanities-related topics and promote humanities-oriented research. If you are interested in hosting a Research Lunch at the Glasscock Center, please inquire at glasscock@tamu.edu.   Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | […]

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. ArCasia James-Gallaway (TLAC) 10/5/2021

    “I’m Black, and I Can Do This:” Black Cheerleaders and Homecoming Queens, Femininity, and School Desegregation in 1970s Texas
    Meeting ID: 950 1786 2525
    Password: ArCasiaJG

  • Fall 2021

    The Fall semester is underway, and at the Glasscock Center we have been continuing the vital work of supporting faculty and student humanities research through our grant opportunities, weekly colloquia series for our Glasscock Fellows, Undergraduate Summer Scholars program, working groups, and Global Health Humanities and Humanities: Land Sea Space initiatives.

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Olga Dror (HIST) 09/21/2021

    "Normalizing Ho Chi Minh: Ideological Demands, Popular Appeal, and A Free Market Economy in the Vietnamese Movie Industry (1990-2020)"
    We welcome your attendance in GLAS 311 or online via Zoom
    Meeting ID: 913 7944 2434
    Passcode: Dror

  • 22nd Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

    Nicole R. Fleetwood receives the Twenty-Second Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

  • Meet the Fellows | 2021-22

    Internal Faculty Residential Fellows
    Faculty Research Fellows
    Graduate Research Fellows

  • “Gender, Power Structures, and Social Change” | Undergraduate Humanities Research

    On Tuesday, August 31, 2021, our 2021-22 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars will present their thesis proposals to the public via Zoom.

  • 2021-22 Colloquium Series

    The schedule for our 2021-22 Colloquium Series is available.

  • Glasscock Summer Research Fellows 2021

    This fellowship was offered for the purpose of supporting faculty and graduate research from within the Texas A&M community, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impede research activities. Each fellowship is entitled to a faculty member and allows a graduate student worker a full-time GAR position during the 3 summer months. 2021 Summer Research Fellows […]

  • Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows 2021-22

    The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds up to ten Graduate Research Fellowships at $2,000 each. Departments can nominate up to two graduate students to be considered for these awards. To be eligible, students in affiliated departments have to be working on a Doctoral dissertation or Masters thesis but could be at the initial stages […]

  • Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows 2021-22

    Academic Year 2021-22 Leonardo Cardoso | Assistant Professor, Performance Studies Leonardo Cardoso is an associate professor of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on what he defines as “sound-politics” – the channels through which sounds enter (and leave) the sphere of state regulation. Cardoso’s first book, Sound-Politics in São Paulo (Oxford University Press, 2019), is an ethnographic […]

  • Glasscock Internal Faculty Fellows 2021-22

    Recipients of the four annually awarded Internal Faculty Fellowships receive a one-course teaching release in the spring semester of 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 […]

  • 2021-22 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars

    Meet our 2021-22 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Clare Palmer (PHIL) 04/20/2021

    “Should global conservation initiatives prioritize phylogenetic diversity? ”
    Meeting ID: 913 1897 4555
    Password: Palmer

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Nia Wilson (PERF) – 4/13/2021

    "Producing Sexuality and Cultural Authenticity through Bachata Dance Technique"
    Meeting ID: 919 3362 4221
    Password: Wilson

  • Human-Subject Interconnectivity: Wild Animals and Research Ethics

    Humanities & Science Exchanges Human-Subject Interconnectivity: Wild Animals and Research Ethics Date: Thursday, April 15th Time: 5pm-6pm Central Time Zoom Webinar | Free & Open to the public About: This event marks the launch of a new, occasional series, “Humanities-Science Exchanges,” at the Glasscock Center. The aim of the series is to encourage connection and […]

  • NEW Funding Opportunity: Summer Research Fellows 2021

    In order to provide research support given continuing effects on research activities from the pandemic, the Glasscock Center is offering a new funding opportunity to support both faculty and graduate students in affiliated departments. Three (3) grants are available to faculty for the purpose of hiring a graduate student to assist with research.

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Amy Earhart (ENGL) 04/6/2021

    “A Compromised Infrastructure: Digital Humanities, African American Literary History and Technologies of Identity”
    Meeting ID: 969 7418 6883
    Password: Earhart

  • Pursuing Funding in the Arts and Humanities (Webinar)

    The Glasscock Center and Division of Research are presenting this webinar about pursuing funding in Humanities and the Arts.
    April 27, 2021 | 3:00-5:00 p.m.

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Ashley Passmore (INTS) 03/30/2021

    "Future Memory: Articulations of Transgenerational Jewish Memory Before and After the Shoah"
    Meeting ID: 954 8693 2248
    Password: Passmore

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Alexander Crist (PHIL) – 3/23/2021

    "Paul Celan and the Possibilities of Interpretation in Carnal Hermeneutics: Pneuma, Handwerk, and ‘Seelenblind’”
    Meeting ID: 914 3700 4440
    Password: Crist

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Landon Sadler (ENGL) – 3/9/2021

    "Introducing What’s Queer about Care"
    Meeting ID: 935 6380 3394
    Password: Sadler

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Defne Över (SOCI) 03/02/2021

    "Punishment and Purge: The Turkish Press in Limbo between 2007 and 2010"
    Meeting ID: 997 9619 7909
    Password: Over

  • Olga Dror

    Faculty Colloquium Series: Olga Dror (HIST) 02/23/2021

    POSTPONED. New date to be determined. “Normalizing Ho Chi Minh: Ideological Demands, Popular Appeal, and A Free Market Economy in the Vietnamese Movie Industry (1990-2020)”
    Meeting ID: 979 1577 5202
    Password: dror

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Amy Earhart (ENGL) 02/16/2021

    POSTPONED. New date to be determined. “A Compromised Infrastructure: Digital Humanities, African American Literary History and Technologies of Identity”
    Meeting ID: 910 9100 2454
    Password: Earhart

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Christopher Bonner (INTS) 02/09/2021

    “Cold War Negritude”
    Meeting ID: 915 6155 9063
    Password: Bonner

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    Illuminating Humanities: Indigenous Studies Working Group

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Indigenous Studies Working Group

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. Portia Owusu (ENGL) 2/2/2021

    “Beyond the View: African Worldviews of Death in African American Literature”
    Meeting ID: 960 6030 2154
    Password: Owusu

  • Spring 2021

    On behalf of the Glasscock Center team, I would like to send along our concern and well wishes to all affected by the awful winter storm in Texas last week and subsequent power outages and water problems. We hope that everyone is staying safe.

  • COVID-19 Micro-grant Showcase

    Our virtual exhibition of the awarded COVID-19 Micro-grant projects is now live! Supported projects include arts and humanities-based works engaging lived experiences of the pandemic.

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. Emilce Santana (SOCI) 11/10/2020

    “Examining the Causal Effect of Skin Color in Online Dating”
    Meeting ID: 968 3256 2360
    Password: Santana

  • 21st Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

    Susan Neiman receives the Twenty-First Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

  • Illuminating Humanities Cover Image of spotlights highlighting the words

    Illuminating Humanities: Defne Över

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
    Dr. Defne Över | Sociology

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Anna Wolfe (COMM) 10/27/2020

    "From ‘Sin’ to ‘Sacrifice’: Adoption Stories of Birth Mother Bravery"
    Meeting ID: 934 5201 8658
    Password: Wolfe

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Mikko Tuhkanen (ENGL) 10/13/2020

    “The Time of Whiteness: James Baldwin on How Lives Matter”
    Meeting ID: 982 6767 8686
    Password: Tuhkanen

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Adam Seipp (HIST) 10/6/2020

    "‘We Are Not a Colonial People’: Race, Sovereignty, and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1950-58"
    Meeting ID: 991 9440 2788
    Password: Seipp

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Stephen Riegg (HIST) 9/29/2020

    “Cocooned in the Caucasus: Dreams of French Silk at Russia’s Edge in the 1820s and 1830s“ Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 918 8314 3307 Password: Riegg https://tamu.zoom.us/j/91883143307?pwd=UGxaM3g5WkFwblVGYTYxNHBVNEpCZz09 Dr. Stephen Riegg Assistant Professor, History, 2020-21 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: This paper is a section of a broader chapter on the entrepreneurial activities of Western European […]

  • Fall 2020

    As we begin this new semester, I hope that this message finds you all well. During these difficult times, the work of humanities centers is more important than ever.

  • ACES Colloquium Series: Dr. Sergio Lemus (ANTH) 9/22/2020

    “The Latino Hybrid Collectif: An Exploratory Framework to Understand the Paradox of the Latino/a Cancer Patient“ Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 950 3992 4055 https://tamu.zoom.us/j/95039924055 Dr. Sergio Lemus Assistant Visiting Professor, Anthropology, Glasscock Affiliated Fellow (ACES), Texas A&M University Abstract: A doleful paradox occurs among Hispanics/Latinx populations in the United States concerning cancer. While Hispanics […]

  • Glasscock Affiliated Fellows 2021-22

    Affiliated Fellows are those whose fellowships originate outside of the Glasscock Center but are incorporated into our programming and fellows’ cohort. They participate in the scholarly community of the Center. Affiliated Fellows Connie Barroso GarciaAssistant Visiting Professor, Educational PsychologyDr. Connie Barroso Garcia is a Visiting Assistant Professor and ACES Fellow in the Department of Educational […]

  • 2020-21 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars

    Meet our 2020-21 Glasscock Summer Scholars!

  • 2020-21 Colloquia Series will be held virtually

    Our 2020-21 Colloquia series, which includes presentations from our Glasscock Fellows, will be hosted virtually via Zoom on Tuesdays at 4:00pm.

  • Save the Date – Humanities: Land Sea Space virtual event

    As part of the Glasscock Center’s Humanities: Land Sea Space initiative, this series of virtual events explores issues concerning environmental justice, energy, community, and forms of resilience in coastal areas in Texas and beyond. We are collaborating with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center to present this series. Seadrift (2019) film screening Directed by Tim Tsai and winner […]

  • Virtual Co-Sponsorship Class Lecture Grant

    Spring 2021 call for applications If you submitted an application in the first call but did not receive funding, we invite you to submit another proposal for this new deadline. As travel plans remain uncertain, visits to campus by guest lecturers are happening virtually. In an effort to support courses in the humanities and humanistic […]

  • Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients 2020-2021

    The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds up to ten Graduate Research Fellowships at $2,000 each. Departments can nominate up to two graduate students to be considered for these awards. To be eligible, students in affiliated departments have to be working on a Doctoral dissertation or Masters thesis but could be at the initial […]

  • Glasscock Internal Faculty Fellows 2020-21

    Recipients of the four annually awarded Internal Faculty Fellowships receive a one-course teaching release in the spring semester of 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 Research Fellows, will present and participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series during […]

  • Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship Recipients 2020-2021

    Five fellowships valued at $5,000 each were awarded for 2020-21. These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field.

  • 2019-2020 Buttrill Ethics Grant Recipients

    This grant supports interactions between faculty and students focused on investigations of ethical issues or ethics in general. Two awards were granted under this year’s Buttrill Ethics program.

  • Glasscock Online Writing Groups Grant

    New Funding Opportunity! As faculty and students navigate their work on research projects amid continued instability from the pandemic situation, it’s important to facilitate the creation of routine and to establish patterns. Virtual writing communities offer a valuable opportunity to immerse oneself in academic inquiry.

  • Interview with Louis Hyman, winner of 20th Glasscock Book Prize

    Marian Eide, Professor of English at Texas A&M, interviewed Louis Hyman, our 20th Book Prize winner, about his book and upcoming projects.

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Manuela Marchesini (INTS) 4/28/20

    “The Existence of Italy“ In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 954 5356 0528 https://tamu.zoom.us/j/95453560528 Dr. Manuela Marchesini International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Abstract: The co-implication of the flesh and of the imagination in cultural […]

  • April 2020

    The Glasscock Center team extends their concern and support to everyone affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that you are well and safe.

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    Illuminating Humanities: Edudzi Sallah

    Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact

  • COVID-19 Micro-Grants in the Arts & Humanities

    The Glasscock Center announces COVID-19 Micro-Grants in the Arts and Humanities.

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    Faculty Colloquium Series: Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (SOCI) 4/14/20

    “LGBTQ Social Movements in India: A Multi-sited Ethnography“ In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 585 846 851 https://tamu.zoom.us/j/585846851 Dr. Chaitanya Lakkimsetti Sociology, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: In the past few years sexual and gender minorities […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Nathalie Mendez (POLS) – 4/7/2020

    “Why Do Bureaucrats Work Together? Micro Explanations for Cooperation in the Public Service” Rescheduled to Tuesday, April 7, 2020.  Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 777 318 067 https://tamu.zoom.us/j/777318067 In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Tuesday, March 31, 2020, […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Richard Golsan (INTS) 3/31/20

    “The Barbie Trial: French Humanism, Tiermondisme and the Meaning of Justice” In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 221 538 346 Join Zoom Meeting https://tamu.zoom.us/j/221538346 Dr. Richard Golsan International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Abstract: The 1987 trial […]

  • The Humanities and COVID-19

    Updated 4/5/21. The Glasscock Center team continues to serve and support the humanities and our Center community remotely during the current situation. Should you need to get in touch with us, please email glasscock@tamu.edu.

  • Upcoming Grant Deadlines EXTENDED

    DEADLINES EXTENDED

  • Rescheduled to 3/24/20: Graduate Colloquium Series: Edudzi Sallah (PERF)

    In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Rescheduled to Tuesday, March 24, 2020. More information about joining via Zoom forthcoming.

  • Global Health Humanities Initiative: Colonial Psychiatry and its Aftereffects

    This Forum engages, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the practices and concepts associated with colonial psychiatry and their ongoing effects upon global health. The three invited scholars will give thirty-minute talks, with time for questions and discussion in between each paper. The Forum concludes with a roundtable discussion, facilitated by a TAMU faculty member.   To […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Adam Rosenthal (INTS) 3/3/20

    “Poetics of the Gift” Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Adam Rosenthal International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: “Poetics and Donation (Part One)” offers an analysis of many central figures of lyric subjectivity in Western poetics, such as genius, talent, inspiration, and imagination. The project tracks the implication […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Damian Robles (HISP) 2/25/20

    “Excavating the Pragmatic Relics of the Early Modern Period: The Vocative Panorama of Insults and Honorifics in Don Quixote (1607-1620)” Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Damian Robles PhD candidate, Department of Hispanic Studies| 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: Words can shape our understanding of human identities; it is through […]

  • 20th Book Prize Events

    The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University has awarded the Twentieth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship to Louis Hyman, for his book Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary, published by Penguin Random House in 2018.

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Melanie Hawthorne (INTS) 2/18/20

    “Thirty-Six Views of Renée Vivien” Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Melanie Hawthorne International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: “Thirty-Six Views of Renée Vivien” is a work in progress, a biography of the Anglo-American Belle Epoque writer Renée Vivien (Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) who published numerous volumes of […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Christina Lake (HIST) 2/11/20

    “If You (Re)Build It, They Will Come: Creating and Remembering Fred Harvey’s Invention of Authentic Native American Experience in the Southwest” Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Christina Lake PhD candidate, Department of History | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: This paper examines the conspicuous absence of Native women in […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Reyko Huang (BUSH) 2/4/20

    “The Global Rebel Elite: Transnational Social Networks in Violent Rebellion” Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Reyko Huang Bush School Department of International Affairs, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: This paper examines the social underpinnings of violent conflict by focusing on the ways rebel leaders often capitalize on their […]

  • Spring 2020

    Our semester is well underway here at the Glasscock Center, with activities ranging from our weekly faculty and graduate colloquia, working group activities, and book chats, to our own major events and those which we support and co-sponsor through a range of grants.

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Seul Lee (ENGL) 1/28/20

    “Militarism and Transnational Adoption: The Obscured Violence in Beneficence of Care and Multiculturalism“ Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Seul Lee PhD candidate, Department of English | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: This paper intervenes in the issue of adoption, unsettling assumptions about the “beneficence of care,” and articulating the […]

  • Humanities: Land Sea Space Initiative

    In this first year of the Glasscock Center’s Humanities: Land Sea Space initiative, our focus is oceans and seas. Check our website for upcoming events, as well as meetings of the initiative’s discussion group.

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Adebayo Ogungbure (PHIL) 11/12/19

    “Humanizing Blackness: Beyond the Deficit-Epistemological Portraiture of Blackness in the Discourse of Knowledge“ Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Adebayo Ogungbure PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: This work aims to address the problem of erasure of Blackness from the discourse of knowledge by centering […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Diego von Vacano (POLS) 11/5/19

    “Princely Performative Populism and Democracy in the Americas“ Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Diego von Vacano Department of Political Science, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: The rise of Donald Trump as president of the USA has puzzled analysts. In this paper, Dr. von Vacano argues that Trump is […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Rachel Turner (TLAC) 10/29/19

    “The Evolving Curriculum: Integration in the Social Studies Across the 20th Century” Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Rachel Turner PhD candidate, Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture| 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: Integrated curriculum is a buzzword in elementary classrooms yet fails in its promise to bring relevance to […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Tasha Dubriwny (COMM) 10/22/19

    “Constituting the Pro-Choice Christian Citizen: Rhetorics of Community and Social Justice” Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Tasha Dubriwny Department of Communication, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: In this essay, Dr. Dubriwny considers the rhetorical constitution of the pro-choice Christian citizen by offering an analysis of three recent books […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Michaela Baca (ENGL) 10/15/19

    “Mythmaking, Propaganda, Rolls, and Scrolls: The Material Legacies of Tudor Legitimacy” Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Michaela Baca PhD candidate, Department of English | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: The Tudor era is perhaps one of the best-known eras of the English monarchy. This was the period of the […]

  • 20th Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

    Louis Hyman receives the Twentieth Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Michaela Baca (ENGL) 10/15/19

    “Mythmaking, Propaganda, Rolls, and Scrolls: The Material Legacies of Tudor Legitimacy” Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Michaela Baca Ph.D. candidate| Department of English, 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: The Tudor era is perhaps one of the best-known eras of the English monarchy. This was the period of the notorious […]

  • Faculty Colloquium Series: Stephen Daniel (PHIL) 10/8/19

    “George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy” Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Stephen Daniel Department of Philosophy, 2019-2020 Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Abstract: According to the 18th century philosopher George Berkeley, God’s creation of a world of objects occurs in the very same act as his creation of the minds […]

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Selene Diaz (SOCI) 10/1/19

    “The Effects of Internal Migration on the Raramuri (Indigenous Community)” Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Selene Diaz Ph.D. candidate| Department of Sociology, 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: The Raramuris migrated to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1990s. They have had to migrate to urban places to look for opportunities to […]

  • Glasscock Humanities Festival 2019

    The inaugural Glasscock Humanities Festival highlights the critical work of Humanities scholarship and its capacity to spark imagination and engage with the pressing issues of today.

  • Graduate Colloquium Series: Ryan Abt (HIST) 9/17/19

    “Holocaust Lessons: Representations of the Murder of Europe’s Jews in American Education, 1933-1945” Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Ryan Abt Ph.D. candidate| Department of History, 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: Scholars have often treated American Holocaust memory as having begun in the 1960s. Works considering the ways that Americans […]