Dr. Jonathan Brunstedt | Associate Professor, History

Jonathan Brunstedt is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University, specializing in modern Russia, Eastern Europe, and the global legacies of war. His research focuses on how societies remember armed conflict and navigate the tensions between idealized pasts and contemporary social, political, and geopolitical realities. He is the author of The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Cambridge University Press), which was named one of Foreign Affairs’ “Best Books of the Year.” His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Kennan Institute, the Aleksanteri Institute, and others.

As a Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow, Brunstedt will continue work on his current book project, "Every Generation Has a War of Its Own: Soviet Victory Culture and Cold War Interventionism." The project examines how triumphalist narratives of the Red Army’s victory over fascism in 1945 shaped the Soviet Union’s interventionist policies across the Cold War—in East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and beyond—and how these memory politics reverberated into the post-Soviet era, including in the framing of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. During his fellowship period, he will revise the book manuscript and complete a related article.

Dr. Margaret Ezell | Distinguished Professor, English

Margaret J.M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.  Her research interests include studying seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature from a historical perspective, in particular early modern women’s participation in shaping literary culture in manuscript and print, and the changing nature of media technologies and literacies past and present.  Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Over the last few years, she has been gathering information about mid- and late-seventeenth-century London book production located in the Thames Street, Baynard Castle area, and learning about printers' ornaments.  She is the author of The Patriarch’s Wife:  Literary Evidence and the History of the Family, Writing Women’s Literary History, Social Authorship and the Advent of Print, and the two-part Oxford English Literary History, Vol. V: 1645-1714:  The Later Seventeenth Century (OUP, 2017; paperback 2022 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-english-literary-history-9780192859129?cc=us&lang=en&).   Her most recent book is Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media (Cambridge University Press, 2024 https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1700-1830/early-english-periodicals-and-early-modern-social-media?format=PB&isbn=9781108791748).  She intends to use her Glasscock Fellowship to bring order multiple years of collecting information about the London printers and their networks in order to analyze it and ultimately to publish the results in a scholarly article or as part of a short monograph.

Dr. Sarah McNamara | Associate Professor, History

Sarah McNamara is associate professor of History and core faculty in the Latinx and Mexican American Studies Program at Texas A&M University. Her research centers on immigration and migration, women and gender, and labor and Latinx/e histories in the modern United States. She is the author of the multi-award-winning book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South and the creator of the on-going public history and public art project, “Nuestras Historias,” anchored in Ybor City. McNamara is at work on her next book project titled, “Swing: A History of Florida’s Latino Vote.”