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March 20, 2024
Understanding Small Hydropower in China’s Southeast Frontier, Yunnan Province
Dr. Thomas Ptak | Texas State University
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March 18, 2024
Why Context Matters
Dr. Alicia Juarrero
Presented by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative -
March 7, 2024
Illuminating Humanities: Uma Sarkar
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Uma Sarkar | Department of Computer Science
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March 1, 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.
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March 1, 2024
Incense: A Performance by Kaoru Watanabe
Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe will perform on March 7
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February 27, 2024
“It’s Just Like Swan Lake!” Movement and Meaning in Popular Culture
Dr. Jen Atkins, Florida State University
March 6, 3:00 PM -
February 23, 2024
Afro-Latinx Poetry: an Invisibilized Canon
Dr. Santos-Febres will deliver the keynote lecture in the 2/29 "Afro-Latinx Life & Writing" Symposium
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February 20, 2024
Illuminating Humanities: Stephen Badalyan Riegg
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Stephen Badalyan Riegg | Department of History
by Megan Bodily -
February 19, 2024
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" -
February 15, 2024
The Ecognosis Seminars with Richard Doyle
Presented by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative
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February 14, 2024
Submissions Open: 25th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize
Submissions for the 25th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize are due
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February 14, 2024
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.
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February 8, 2024
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.
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February 7, 2024
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.
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February 6, 2024
Sweet Fuel: Brazilian Ethanol in Historical Perspective
February 12, 3pm: Dr. Jennifer Eaglin | Ohio State University
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February 6, 2024
Illuminating Humanities: Colin Peek
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Colin Peek | Department of Global Languages and Cultures
by Megan Bodily -
February 2, 2024
AI & the Humanities
Dr. Matthew Jones, Princeton | Notable Lecture
Feb 8 at 12pm in MSC 2500 -
January 25, 2024
Spring 2024
After a freezing cold start to the semester, things are starting to warm up on campus and in the Glasscock Center.
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January 25, 2024
Melt, Rise, and the Future of Water: A Climate Story
January 29, 3pm: Dr. Cymene Howe | Rice University
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January 19, 2024
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.
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January 16, 2024
Illuminating Humanities: Allegra Midgette
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Allegra Midgette | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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December 21, 2023
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.
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December 20, 2023
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).
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December 4, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Diego Sepulveda-Allen
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Diego Sepulveda-Allen | Philosophy and History
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November 20, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Janet Eunjin Cho
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Janet Eunjin Cho | Department of English
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November 2, 2023
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.
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October 25, 2023
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.
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October 23, 2023
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 -
October 19, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Lauren Currie
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Lauren Currie | History
by Megan Bodily -
October 10, 2023
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.
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October 10, 2023
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.
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October 2, 2023
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.
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September 21, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Dr. Glen Miller
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Glen Miller | Philosophy and Humanities
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September 20, 2023
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.
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September 18, 2023
Funding Opportunity from the MLA: Pathways Step Grants Application Open! (Deadline: 10/10/23)
Pathways Step Grants Application Open! (Deadline: 10/10/23)
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September 17, 2023
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 […]
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August 24, 2023
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 -
August 18, 2023
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.
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August 17, 2023
2023-24 Glasscock Graduate Arrival Fellows
Meet our 2023-24 Glasscock Graduate Arrival Fellows
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August 16, 2023
Now Hiring: Undergraduate Student Apprentice
Undergraduates in good academic standing are invited to apply to work at the Glasscock Center!
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August 15, 2023
New Research Initiative: The Humanities and the Anthropocene
The Glasscock Center has launched a new research initiative, The Humanities and the Anthropocene.
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August 8, 2023
Short-Term Visiting Fellows 2023-24
Learn about this year's Short-Term Visiting Fellows
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July 26, 2023
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.
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July 10, 2023
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 […]
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July 10, 2023
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 […]
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June 22, 2023
2023-24 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars
Meet our 2023-24 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!
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June 13, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Kate Girvin
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Kate Girvin | Philosophy & Humanities
by Jennifer Wells '10 -
June 2, 2023
2023-24 Colloquium Schedule Coming Soon
Stay tuned for the presentation schedule of our 2023-24 Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series.
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May 30, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: April Lee Hatfield
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
April Lee Hatfield | History
by Jennifer Wells '10 -
May 11, 2023
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 […]
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May 11, 2023
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 […]
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May 11, 2023
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) […]
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May 11, 2023
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: […]
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April 13, 2023
“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
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April 13, 2023
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
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April 13, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Brian Linn
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Brian Linn | History
by Jennifer Wells '10 -
April 12, 2023
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 -
April 5, 2023
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 -
March 27, 2023
Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court
Sponsored by the Law and Society Working Group at the Glasscock Center.
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March 24, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Hoi-eun Kim
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Hoi-eun Kim | History
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March 16, 2023
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 -
March 1, 2023
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. […]
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March 1, 2023
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 […]
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March 1, 2023
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 […]
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March 1, 2023
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 […]
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February 21, 2023
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" -
February 21, 2023
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" -
February 8, 2023
Illuminating Humanities: Victoria Green
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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February 7, 2023
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 -
January 31, 2023
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.
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January 17, 2023
Spring 2023
This academic year is proving to be another busy one for the Glasscock Center.
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November 21, 2022
Illuminating Humanities: Adam Rosenthal
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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November 9, 2022
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 -
October 26, 2022
Illuminating Humanities: Margaret Ezell & Kevin O’Sullivan
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
Margaret Ezell and Kevin O'Sullivan | English -
October 11, 2022
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
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October 7, 2022
Now Hiring: Graduate Research Assistant
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is hiring a Graduate Research Assistant to begin in January 2023.
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September 28, 2022
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 […]
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September 28, 2022
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 -
September 17, 2022
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.
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September 15, 2022
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 […]
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September 14, 2022
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 […]
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September 13, 2022
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
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August 25, 2022
Meet the Fellows | 2022-23
Internal Faculty Residential Fellows
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August 17, 2022
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 […]
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August 8, 2022
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.
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June 21, 2022
2022-23 Colloquium Schedule Coming Soon
Stay tuned for the presentation schedule of our 2022-23 Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series.
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June 13, 2022
2022-23 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars
Meet our 2022-23 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!
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May 12, 2022
Illuminating Humanities: Martin Regan
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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April 27, 2022
Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference Report
March 31st and April 1st, 2022 Conference Report and Event Recordings now available!
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April 12, 2022
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
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March 24, 2022
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
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March 10, 2022
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 -
March 2, 2022
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 -
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February 23, 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 -
February 16, 2022
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 […]
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February 16, 2022
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 -
February 10, 2022
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
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February 10, 2022
Research Lunch Series: 2/16/2022
“Personal Experience Working for the ADVANCE COVID-19 Research Project”
Aigul Seralinova, Ph.D. candidate | Anthropology
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January 25, 2022
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 -
January 19, 2022
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 – […]
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January 17, 2022
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.
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January 12, 2022
Illuminating Humanities: Michael Collins
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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January 10, 2022
Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference
Spring 2022
Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference Program
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December 3, 2021
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.
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November 11, 2021
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 […]
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November 10, 2021
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 -
November 3, 2021
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 -
October 27, 2021
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 -
October 13, 2021
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 -
October 13, 2021
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 -
October 12, 2021
Illuminating Humanities: Denise Meda Calderon
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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October 6, 2021
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
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October 1, 2021
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.
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October 1, 2021
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 | […]
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September 29, 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
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September 17, 2021
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.
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September 15, 2021
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
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September 10, 2021
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
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August 27, 2021
Meet the Fellows | 2021-22
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August 23, 2021
“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.
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July 20, 2021
2021-22 Colloquium Series
The schedule for our 2021-22 Colloquium Series is available.
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July 14, 2021
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 […]
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July 8, 2021
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 […]
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July 8, 2021
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 […]
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July 8, 2021
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 […]
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June 2, 2021
2021-22 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars
Meet our 2021-22 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars!
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April 14, 2021
Faculty Colloquium Series: Clare Palmer (PHIL) 04/20/2021
“Should global conservation initiatives prioritize phylogenetic diversity? ”
Meeting ID: 913 1897 4555
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April 7, 2021
Graduate Colloquium Series: Nia Wilson (PERF) – 4/13/2021
"Producing Sexuality and Cultural Authenticity through Bachata Dance Technique"
Meeting ID: 919 3362 4221
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April 5, 2021
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 […]
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March 31, 2021
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.
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March 31, 2021
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
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March 25, 2021
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.
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March 24, 2021
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
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March 4, 2021
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
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March 3, 2021
Graduate Colloquium Series: Landon Sadler (ENGL) – 3/9/2021
"Introducing What’s Queer about Care"
Meeting ID: 935 6380 3394
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February 22, 2021
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
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February 18, 2021
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
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February 10, 2021
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
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February 3, 2021
Faculty Colloquium Series: Christopher Bonner (INTS) 02/09/2021
“Cold War Negritude”
Meeting ID: 915 6155 9063
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January 26, 2021
Illuminating Humanities: Indigenous Studies Working Group
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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January 22, 2021
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
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January 17, 2021
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.
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January 5, 2021
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.
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October 29, 2020
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
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October 23, 2020
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
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October 21, 2020
Illuminating Humanities: Defne Över
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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October 21, 2020
Faculty Colloquium Series: Anna Wolfe (COMM) 10/27/2020
"From ‘Sin’ to ‘Sacrifice’: Adoption Stories of Birth Mother Bravery"
Meeting ID: 934 5201 8658
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October 7, 2020
Faculty Colloquium Series: Mikko Tuhkanen (ENGL) 10/13/2020
“The Time of Whiteness: James Baldwin on How Lives Matter”
Meeting ID: 982 6767 8686
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September 29, 2020
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
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September 22, 2020
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 […]
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September 17, 2020
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.
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September 15, 2020
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 […]
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September 3, 2020
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 […]
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August 20, 2020
2020-21 Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars
Meet our 2020-21 Glasscock Summer Scholars!
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July 20, 2020
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.
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July 20, 2020
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 […]
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June 26, 2020
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 […]
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June 23, 2020
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 […]
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June 23, 2020
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 […]
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June 23, 2020
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.
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June 5, 2020
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.
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May 27, 2020
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.
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May 12, 2020
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.
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April 21, 2020
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 […]
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April 17, 2020
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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April 16, 2020
Illuminating Humanities: Edudzi Sallah
Highlighting Humanities Research and its Impact
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April 16, 2020
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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April 8, 2020
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 […]
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April 1, 2020
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, […]
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March 25, 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 […]
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March 20, 2020
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.
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March 3, 2020
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.
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February 26, 2020
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 […]
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February 25, 2020
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 […]
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February 18, 2020
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 […]
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February 12, 2020
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.
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February 11, 2020
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 […]
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February 4, 2020
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 […]
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January 28, 2020
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 […]
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January 17, 2020
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.
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January 13, 2020
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 […]
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December 12, 2019
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.
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November 5, 2019
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 […]
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October 29, 2019
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 […]
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October 22, 2019
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 […]
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October 15, 2019
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 […]
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October 11, 2019
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 […]
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October 10, 2019
20th Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Louis Hyman receives the Twentieth Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
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October 8, 2019
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 […]
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October 1, 2019
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 […]
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September 24, 2019
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 […]
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September 11, 2019
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.
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September 10, 2019
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 […]