Asian Studies
The Asian Studies Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students from various disciplines at Texas A&M University who study Asia. Our members come from diverse fields including History, Literature, Sociology, Film Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Visualization, and Philosophy, among others. The group organizes events including research presentations, work-in-progress sessions, talks by invited scholars, and Asian cultural celebrations, Through these activities, we aim to foster collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue among Asian Studies scholars at Texas A&M, while providing constructive feedback on members' research. Ultimately, our goal is to build a stronger community of Asianists and increase the visibility of Asian Studies scholarship on campus.
Convenors: Dr. Olga Dror, History; Dr. Jun Lei, Global Languages and Cultures

Care Studies 
This group will adopt humanist categories of inquiry as cornerstones as we form an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to care studies. At its core, the group maintains that rhetoric, culture, religion, race and gender influence a collective ideology of care and care labor; that ideology goes on to shape the various societal problems commonly associated with care (e.g., eldercare abuse, childcare shortages, the racialization of domestic work, the gendered nature of the nursing field). By bringing the methods and methodologies traditionally associated with the humanities to bear in a more interdisciplinary context (which includes the social sciences), we will interrogate care and care labor as both practices and ideologies; ultimately, we will produce scholarship that places care front and center in an analysis of larger societal forces, including economic markets, laws, and immigration patterns, as well as gender, race, and class relations.
Convenors: Dr. Allegra Midgette, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Dr. Marian Eide, English

Caribbean and Atlantic Studies
The Caribbean and Atlantic Studies Group fosters collaboration and communication between faculty and students at Texas A&M working within this field as well as to affect cohesion and collaboration amongst members.
Convenor: Dr. Takkara Brunson, History

Critical Theory Collective
Critical Theory as a distinctive field of academic endeavor reached its heyday through work done primarily in literature departments throughout the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. This happened indirectly through the reception of major developments in European thought of the time. It inflected work done in the US academic humanities and social sciences in radically novel ways and it has continued to be the source of inspiration for most significant innovations in contemporary thought within the liberal arts.

Critical theory today must engage with issues such as ecological transition, artificial intelligence, surveillance economics, increasing mass diasporic movements, historical inequality, among others. These are phenomena that the previous wave of critical theory in the humanities was unprepared to address. New thought is therefore needed from the humanities and other theoretically inflected disciplines.

This year we will collectively explore issues concerning the weakening of principial thought in the Western tradition.
Convenors: Dr. Alberto Moreiras, Dr. Daniel Runnels, Global Languages & Cultures

Early Modern Studies
The Early Modern Studies Working Group provides a forum for those with scholarly interests in the global early modern period, roughly defined as 1450-1800 CE. We aim to provide an intellectual community for graduate students and faculty, a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and writing, and opportunities for collaboration between graduate students and faculty that promote academic mentorship and further the process of professionalization.
Convenors: Dr. Kevin O'Sullivan, English; Dr. Tianna Uchacz, Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts

Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity
The Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity working group generates a collaborative space across the university where we discuss and share ideas related to the transnational movement of people throughout all periods of history and discipline. The IME working group seeks out scholarship dealing with the past and current discourse that shapes immigration, migration, and ethnicity issues today. From global migration patterns and crises in Europe to the heighted salience of immigration in US politics and society, historical, sociological, and linguistic contexts for understanding these topics are extremely relevant for scholars, students, and policy makers.
Convenors: Dr. Sarah McNamara, Leslie Torres, History

Indigenous Studies
Our Indigenous Studies Working Group fosters a supportive community of faculty and student scholars at all levels who are interested in the field of Indigenous studies. We nurture scholarship that centers Indigenous research methodologies, including working closely with Indigenous communities whenever possible. Our meetings focus on sharing and workshopping works-in-progress related to Indigenous studies in any format or medium. We also create and support public-facing events to share our scholarly conversation with a broader campus audience.
Convenors: Dr. Raymond Leonard, English; Mark Mallory, History

Literacy Studies 
The Literacy Studies Group includes faculty, professionals, researchers and graduate students from diverse backgrounds (psychology, sociology, neuroscience, linguistics, and education). The group meets to break artificial disciplinary barriers and to facilitate the exchange of information on the issue of literacy, a major concern in our technological society.
Convenor: Dr. R. Malatesha Joshi, Teaching, Learning, & Culture

Medieval Studies 
The Medieval Studies Working Group invites the participation of all faculty and graduate students with academic interests in the Middle Ages, roughly defined as the period 500-1500 CE. Regular meetings normally focus on the airing of work-in-progress or the discussion of published primary or secondary works. The group provides a forum for dialogue about the field of medieval studies and any topic within it; supports participants’ own research with opportunities for constructive feedback; increases awareness of, and access to, interdisciplinary possibilities as we benefit mutually from one another’s more specialized interests and expertise; and continues to develop a sense of community among TAMU’s medievalists.
Convenors: Dr. Noah Peterson, Kristen York, English

Religious Studies
The Religious Studies working group convenes faculty from across campus who study religion and related topics (e.g., secularity). The goal of the group is to provide space for cross-disciplinary intellectual exchange about topics of specific interest to scholars of religion. The Religious Studies working group will facilitate events such as lectures, discussions of current and ongoing research, pedagogical workshops, and invited guest lectures. From this exchange we hope to foster greater connectivity among scholars of religion at Texas A&M, as well as opportunities for research collaboration, cross-fertilization and intellectual growth.
Convenor: Dr. Robin Veldman, Global Languages & Cultures

South Asia Studies
The South Asia Studies Working Group focuses on the interplay and confrontation between dynamics of liberalization, globalization and nationalism in the South Asian region. Precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods of South Asian history will be studied using area, cultural, and women’s studies as well as other disciplinary perspectives on the politics and cultures of South Asia as a region.
Convenors: Dr. Jyotsna Vaid, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Dr. Koyel Khan, Sociology

Texas Ethnography Studies
Texas Ethnography Lab serves as an institutional home for faculty and students from various disciplines and scholarly orientations interested in the practice and theorization of ethnography. It is a space for thinking through the affordances, constraints, ethics, poetics, and politics of ethnographic design and data collection today, and for convening the peer support and intellectual collaboration of working ethnographers. Through seminars and workshops, we aim to provide critical inquiry, technical resources, and community engagement for all forms of ethnographic research.
Convenors: Dr. Isaac Blacksin, Dr. Antonio La Pastina, Communication & Journalism

War, Violence and Society
The War, Violence and Society Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students who employ a variety of disciplines in the study of violence and the ways it impacts society. This working group considers the causes, courses, and consequences of violence, including conventional warfare, insurgencies, and state-directed violence. It benefits from the perspectives of specialists in the institutional, cultural, social, and gendered study of conflict in the human experience.
Convenor: Dr. Adam Seipp, History

Video Game Studies
The Video Game Studies Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students from across Texas A&M University to foster and promote the interdisciplinary study of video games.
Convenor: Dr. Patrick Sullivan, Dr. Matthew Campbell, Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts