Glasscock Center 2014-15 Annual Report by The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering and celebrating the humanities and humanities research among the community of scholars at Texas A&M University and in the world beyond the academy. The Glasscock Center is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and is located on the third floor of the Glasscock Building on the Texas A&M University Campus.

Growing from the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Studies, founded in 1987, the Center for Humanities Research was created by the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University in 1999 and received a naming endowment in 2002. This name change recognizes an extraordinary gift from Melbern G. Glasscock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;59 and Susanne M. Glasscock, which constitutes a sustaining endowment for the Center.

Table of Contents General Information......................................................... 4 Letter from the Director................................................... 5 Glasscock Center Lecture Series.................................... 6-7 Buttrill Endowed Fund for Ethics..................................... 8 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize................ 9 World War II Initiative Events.....................................10-11 France/TAMU Institute Events.........................................12 Other Glasscock Center Events........................................13 Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series..................14-15 Overview of Grants and Awards................................16-17 Internal Faculty Residential Fellows...........................18-19 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows.......................... 20-23 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows...................... 24-26 Brown Graduate Fellows................................................ 27 Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program.............. 28-29 Glasscock Three-Year Seminars................................. 30-31 Other Faculty Grants....................................................... 32 Other Grants.................................................................... 33 Co-sponsored Events................................................. 34-37 Humanities Working Groups..................................... 38-39

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Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research 305 Glasscock Building Texas A&M University 4214 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4214 phone: (979) 845-8328 fax: (979) 458-3681 glasscock@tamu.edu glasscock.tamu.edu 2014-2015 Staff: Richard J. Golsan, Director, University Distinguished Professor, Department of International Studies Sarah M. Misemer, Associate Director, Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies Donna C. Malak, Communications Specialist Hannah Waugh, Administrative Assistant Andrea Batarse, Business Undergraduate Apprentice Desirae Embree, Communication Undergraduate Apprentice 2014-2015 Advisory Committee Tom Green, Department of Anthropology Kevin Glowacki, Department of Architecture Jasen Castillo, Bush School of Government and Public Service Randall Sumpter, Department of Communication Alain Lawo-Sukam, Department of Hispanic Studies Brian Linn, Department of History Marian Eide, Department of English Jonathon Smith, Department of Geography Stefanie Harris, Department of International Studies Martin Regan, Department of Performance Studies Dwayne Raymond, Department of Philosophy Diego A. von Vacano, Department of Political Science Les Morey, Department of Psychology Tazim Jamal, Department of Recreations, Parks, and Tourism Sciences Harland Prechel, Department of Sociology Lynn Burlbaw, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture 2014-2015 Internal Faculty Residential Fellows Linda Radzik, Department of Philosophy Susan Egenolf, Department of English Olga Dror, Department of History Shelley Wachsmann, Department of Anthropology 2014-2015 Brown Graduate Fellows Harris Bechtol, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Philosophy Steven B. Davis, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History

4 â&#x20AC;˘ GENERAL INFORMAITON

ÂŠ 2015 The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

From the Director 2014-2015 was an exciting and rewarding year for the Glasscock Center, and we are delighted to provide this report of the Center’s many activities. As always, it is a pleasure and a privilege to serve as Director of the Glasscock Center and to witness the intellectual ferment our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students display every day. It is also an honor to welcome to campus distinguished scholars, writers and film makers from the United States and abroad to share their knowledge and their vision. Finally, the Glasscock Center works increasingly with other institutions on campus who generously support and co-sponsor the Center’s activities. We are especially grateful to the Scowcroft Institute at the Bush School, the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts, and the University Honors Program for their support of our activities in 2014-2015. Fall 2014 at the Glasscock Center marked a time of remembrance of tragic and traumatic events in modern American history. The Buttrill Ethics Lecture in September was given by award- winning journalist, investigative reporter, and writer Philip Shenon. Shenon’s lecture, “Investigating a National Tragedy: Seeking Justice after 911 and the Kennedy Assassination” explored the successes and failures of the Warren and 911 Commissions, and reflected on the impact of the work of these Commissions in helping Americans to come to terms with these tragedies and move on. In October, Pulitzer Prize winner and United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey spent several days on campus conducting writing workshops. Trethewey also read movingly from her poetry on Hurricane Katrina and the destruction and tragedy that came in its wake. As part of the ongoing “World War II and its Global Legacies” series we were delighted to welcome to campus two nationally and internationally recognized individuals whose contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the World War II, its past as well as the horrors of the present, cannot be overstated. In September, Canadian SenatorGeneral Roméo Dallaire, an internationally recognized humanitarian who, as officer in charge of UN forces in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, did everything possible to save lives and encourage the international community to intervene, visited our campus. He addressed faculty, students and members of the community in a moving speech entitled “Dallaire’s Story of Courage and Conviction.” In April, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of the Liberation Trilogy Rick Atkinson reminded the university community of the sacrifices, hardships and realities of the American experience of World War II. Atkinson’s lecture was entitled “Ten Things Every American Should Know about World War II.” As the following pages attest, these lectures and readings by distinguished guests served as a worthy complement to the many contributions of Working Groups, Three-year Seminars, Faculty and Graduate Colloquia, Co-sponsored Events, and Undergraduate Summer Seminars. These contributions reflect the many and varied interests of our faculty and students, and reveal they the remarkable range of their intellectual and creative talents. I am most grateful to all for sharing their research and ideas with us.

Richard J. Golsan Director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of International Studies, Texas A&M University

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Glasscock Center Lecture Series Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey | United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet The Glasscock Center hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey for a series of events in October 2015. On 27 October, she held a workshop focusing on poetry and creative writing. On 28 October, she presented a public lecture and poetry reading entitled “Poetry and History: A Reading with Natasha Trethewey.” Natasha Trethewey is the nineteenth United States Poet Laureate (20122013). In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote, “Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we all face.” She is the author of Thrall (2012); Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). She is also the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press). A memoir is forthcoming in 2015. Her first collection of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In her introduction to the book, Dove said, “Trethewey eschews the Polaroid instant, choosing to render the unsuspecting yearnings and tremulous hopes that accompany our most private thoughts—reclaiming for us that interior life where the true self flourishes and to which we return, in solitary reverie, for strength.” Trethewey is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. At Emory University she is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing. In her second term as Poet Laureate, Trethewey’s signature project is a feature on the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series known as Where Poetry Lives. In this series, Trethewey travels with Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown to various cities across the United States in order to explore societal issues through a link to poetry, literature, and Trethewey’s own personal experiences. In addition to being United States Poet Laureate, she is the State Poet Laureate of Mississippi, from 2012-2016.

6 • Glasscock Center Lecture SEries

“Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders” Denise A. Spellberg | Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin On 5 March, Professor Denise Spellberg gave a public lecture in the Glasscock Center. She is author of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders (Knopf, October 2013) and of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha Bint Abi Bakr (Columbia University Press, 1996). Professor Spellberg is recipient of the Carnegie Foundation Scholarship, 2009-10 and the Harry Ransom Teaching Award, 2006. In this lecture, Spellberg stated that Thomas Jefferson had a complex and often contradictory relationship with the Muslim faith. In 1765, eleven years before composing The Declaration of Independence, he bought a Qu’ran. This interest in Islam did not eradicate his prejudices about the religion, but unlike his majority, Jefferson imagined Muslims as future citizens of his new country. These transatlantic ideas inspired their uniquely American vision of religious pluralism, one which promoted equal rights for imaginary, future Muslim citizens as well as despised resident Jewish and Catholic minorities during the founding era. Tragically, Jefferson, a slave owner, failed to recognize the presence of America’s first Muslim inhabitants: enslaved West Africans present in the early republic in the tens of thousands. The religious freedom and rights of Muslims in early American history were once debated only in theory, but these precedents are now tested daily for an American Muslim citizenry of millions.

“I found it very stimulating to attend and participate in numerous talks presented at the Glasscock Center. This allowed me to expand my horizons not only beyond my area of studies but also beyond the discipline itself.” ~ Dr. Olga Dror, Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Natasha Trethewey presenting her public lecture and signing books.

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Carrol O. Buttrill ’38

Endowed Fund for Ethics With the goal of fostering discussion in a field of inquiry he valued, Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 established a fund through which the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research promotes on-going investigations into questions of ethical significance to the Texas A&M community. The Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant, introduced in 2007-2008, has now become an annual award to faculty for ethics-related curriculum development. See page 32 for details.

Buttrill Ethics Lecture “Investigating a National Tragedy: Seeking Justice After the Kennedy Assassination and 9/11” Philip Shenon | Bestselling author and reporter On 24 September, author Philip Shenon presented the Buttrill Ethics Lecture. Philip Shenon is the bestselling author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. He is the recipient of 57th annual Francis Parkman Prize for his most recent book A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, published by Henry Holt. Shenon was a reporter for The New York Times for more than twenty years. As a Washington correspondent for The Times, he covered the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the State Department. As a foreign correspondent for the paper, he reported from more than sixty countries and several war zones.

Buttrill Ethics Roundtable “American Security Since 9/11” Hank Lawson | Director, TEEX National Emergency Response & Rescue Training Center (NERRTC) Andrew S. Natsios | Director, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and Executive Professor Dr. Elizabeth Parker | Chief Veterinarian, Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases (IIAD) Dr. Joseph Ura | Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Panelists discussing Amerian security since 9/11 during the Buttrill Ethics Roundtable

8 • Buttrill Ethics Events

On 12 November 2015, panelists addressed ethical issues that have emerged regarding surveillance and security for governments and individuals since 9/11.

Sixteenth Annual

Susanne M. Glasscock

Humanities Book Prize

for Interdisciplinary scholarship The Glasscock Book Prize, first awarded in 1999, originated by the Texas A&M Center for Humanities Research, was permanently endowed in December 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock ’59 and his wife Susanne M. Glasscock, for whom the prize is now named.

Humanities Book Prize Lecture and Award Presentation “Surrounding One’s Self with the Beauty of Life: Historicizing Nineteenth-Century Latina/o Writing” RAÚL CORONADO | Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

book submissions received

Raúl Coronado received the Sixteenth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for his book A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture, published by the Harvard University Press in 2013. Professor Coronado gave a public lecture and accepted the book prize on Wednesday, 28 January 2015. In his lecture, Coronado asked what distinguishes literature from other forms of writing? He stated that Latina/o literary historians have uncovered only a handful of novels written by U.S. Latinas/os in the nineteenth century. And yet, the nineteenth-century Latina/o archive is chock-full of writing, both in manuscript-form and printed documents. He questioned how these documents contribute to our understanding of Latina/o literary history, and how they force us to get at the root of what literature is supposed to offer.

Outside Reader Lecture “The American Civil War and the Cultural Production of Disabled Americans” COLLEEN GLENNEY BOGGS | Professor of English, Dartmouth College Colleen Glenney Boggs was the external reader for the Seventeenth Book Prize selection committee and gave a public lecture on Tuesday, 24 March 2015. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and has particular expertise in animal studies, transatlantic studies, literary theory and gender studies. In this lecture, Professor Boggs focused on a specific historic event, the institution of the Civil War draft in 1863, which further scaled up the war effort and the population’s involvement in it. She argued that romantic images of returning soldiers perpetuated rather than concluded the martial practices of bearing arms. Focusing on prosthesis, this talk situated the figure of the soldier in a context of disability that the Civil War produced as the defining condition of civilian life.

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“ World and its

War II

Global Legacies ” Initiative

The “World War II and its Global Legacies” Initiative is a two-year program sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research focusing on World War II, its history and consequences, as well as its global impact on international law, national memory and identity, and the humanities. The Glasscock Center hosts lectures, conferences, workshops and film screenings to help students, faculty, and the general public better understand the events and implications of the conflict. World War II and its outcomes continue to shape our lives today, particularly through global efforts aimed at recognizing and supporting human rights.

“Dallaire’s Story of Courage and Conviction” Roméo A. Dallaire | Retired Lieutenant-General and Humanitarian The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University hosted a lecture by humanitarian Roméo Dallaire on Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Lieutenant-General (LGen) Dallaire is President of the Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire Foundation; founder of The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, an organization aimed at eradicating the use of child soldiers; an outspoken advocate for human rights, particularly war-affected children, women, the Canadian First Nations, and military veterans; a respected champion of genocide prevention initiatives, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, and nuclear nonproliferation; as well as a best-selling author. In 1994, LGen Dallaire was appointed Force Commander for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), where he witnessed the country descend into chaos and genocide, leading to the deaths of more than 800,000 Rwandans. LGen Dallaire, along with a small contingent of Ghanaian soldiers and military observers, disobeyed the command to withdraw and remained in Rwanda to fulfill their ethical obligation to protect those who sought refuge with the UN forces.

Event supported in part by: L-R: Roméo A. Dallaire; Q&A with Andrew S. Natsios, Roméo A. Dallaire, and Dr. Richard J. Golsan; Dinner following Dallaire’s lecture

Department of International Studies • Office of the Provost • Dean of Faculties • Department of Philosophy • Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs • Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity • Department of Communication • Department of History

10 • World War II and its Global Legacies Initiative

L-R: Rick Atkinson; Book signing

“Ten Things Every American Should Know About World War II” RICK ATKINSON | Best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Military Historian On 11 March 2015, the Glasscock Center and the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs hosted a lecture and book signing by author Rick Atkinson in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. Atkinson also participated in informal conversation with interested scholars during the Glasscock Center’s Morning Coffee Hour. Atkinson is among the most celebrated historians of the Second World War, and his Liberation Trilogy—nearly 15 years in the making—has achieved both critical and popular success. It is what every American should know about the greatest epic of the 20th century. In this presentation, Atkinson shares amazing stories and lessons about WWII while discussing its seminal moments and how the war shaped our modern world, created an American heritage, and led to great social change (especially in gender and race relations), medical advancement, and more. Event supported in part by:

Dr. Richard J. Golsan, Dr. Michael Benedik, and Susanne M. Glasscock

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France/Texas A&M University Institute A select number of Universities throughout the United States have been chosen as French Embassy Centers of Excellence. Co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office at TAMU, the center receives recurring financial support and yearly project-based support to fund a wide variety of activities and research. The Center supports the Embassy of France’s efforts in University cooperation by identifying and integrating existing research and teaching activities connected with France and their institutions, and establishing a framework through which these and other activities related to France can be facilitated and promoted.

French Women Today; Crimes Against Humanity in France; Charlie Hebdo, Anti-Semitism, and Immigration in France Annette Levy’Willard | French journalist and reporter On 26-27 February 2015, French journalist and reporter, Annette LevyWillard presented three lectures at Texas A&M University addressing current topics relating to France. Levy-Willard has been a reporter for the newspaper Libération since 1979. She was also a cultural counselor at the Embassy of France in Tel Aviv and the director French Institute in Isreal. While she was a Libération correspondent in Los Angeles, she worked on assignments including the presidential campaign, September 11, and the the war in Iraq.

Corporeal Memory, Intellectual Memory Pascal Bruckner | Essayist and novelist Pascal Bruckner presented a public lecture on 16 April 2015. Bruckner is a world renowned essayist and novelist whose works have been translated in thirty countries. He has taught for fifteen years at the Institude d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and has been a visiting professor at New York University and at San Diego University. As a “public intellectual,” Bruckner has served as an expert commentator on French and European affairs for newspapers, reviews, and magazines around the world, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération, as well as the New Yorker, the New Republic, and in the op-ed pages of the New York Times.

The Great War in France Today: A Look Back at the Centennial Year 2014 Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau | Director, School for Advance Studies in the Social Science (EHESS)

Remembering WWII: Heroes, Victims, Culprits Henry Rousso | Director of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) On 22 April 2015, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Henry Rousso addressed issues related to World War I and World War II. AudoinRouzeau – whose research focuses on the historical anthropology of war phenomenon in contemporary times and the Rwandan genocide – spoke about the place of the Great War in France today and its commemoration as part of its 100 year anniversary in 2014. During this lecture Henry Rousso discussed how the “Vichy Syndrome” has likely come to an end in recent generations and now there is a consensus to accept the dark side of France’s contemporary history.

12 • France/tamu Institute Events

Other Glasscock Center Events On 3 September 2014, the Glasscock Center hosted a New Faculty Coffee Hour for new faculty in affiliated departments. Faculty had an opportunity to meet Glasscock Center administration and learn about the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs.

The Glasscock Center hosted grant writing workshops for faculty and graduate students. Faculty members provided valuable insight to those interested in applying to Glasscock Center grants and other grants in the humanities.

Morning Coffee Hour. Every other Wednesday during the semester the Glasscock Center hosts an informal coffee hour with a featured guest. All are welcome for coffee, tea, pastries, and conversation.

Glasscock Center Meet and Greet on 10 September 2014. The Meet and Greet provides an opportunity for Glasscock Center faculty fellows, graduate student fellows, and new faculty and staff to interact and become acquainted with the Glasscock Center.

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Faculty & Graduate

Colloquium Series The Glasscock Center hosts colloquia of works-in-progress throughout the year. The colloquia offer faculty and graduate students an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. The colloquium series is comprised of Glasscock Center Fellows (Glasscock Faculty Residential Fellows, Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows, Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellows, and Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows) for the current academic year. 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 designed to be informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

GRADUATE Colloquium Series “Changing Individuals, Changing Folklore: Mexican-American Women, the ‘First-Year Experience’ at a Borderlands University, and ‘La Llorona‘” Anne Locker-Thaddeus | Department of Anthropology “In North Dakota, We’re Dependent on Beavers to Protect Our Drinking Water”: Public Responses and Post-Disaster Subjectivity in Relation to Three Recent Fraccidents in the Bakken Shale” Thomas Loder | Department of Geography “Western Bushido: The American Invention of Asian Martial Arts” Jared Miracle | Department of Anthropology “Ritualized Practice and Ethical Life: Learning Community from Shakespeare Behind Bars” Karen Davis | Department of Philosophy “Tales of Expulsion in Central Europe: Remembering Population Transfer in West Germany and the Czech Lands, 1970-1989” Steven B. Davis | Department of History “Roofs and grids in postwar Japanese architecture: Kenzo Tange, Seiichi Shirai, and Togo Murano” Maki Iisaka | Department of Architecture Faculty and graduate student colloquia

14 • Faculty Colloquium SEries

FACULTY Colloquium Series “Thinking Globally, Acting Globally: Cosmopolitanism, Risk and Representing Environmental Connection” Emily Johansen | Assistant Professor, Department of English “Do We Not Bleed When We Are Pricked: Judaism, Gender, and the Justice of Forgiveness” Claire Katz | Professor, Department of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies Program “Pottery and Nation-Building: The Case of Wedgwood’s Green Frog Service” Susan Egenolf | Associate Professor, Department of English “Invaluable, Invisible, and Not Invincible: Perceived Experiences of Marginalization for Faculty Women of Color in the Academic Workplace” Adrienne Carter-Sowell | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Africana Studies Program “Gendered Geographies of Memory: Place, Violence, and Exigency at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute” Kristan Poirot | Department of Communication and Women’s and Gender Studies Program “Gossip as Social Punishment” Linda Radzik | Department of Philosophy “Cultural Citizenship in Trinidad’s Carnival: ‘Creole Bacchanal’ and the Middle Class Jumpin’ Up” N. Fadeke Castor | Department of Anthropology and Africana Studies Program “A Singular Man: The Making of an Eighteenth-Century Unmarried Life” James Rosenheim | Department of History “How Do You Know When It’s Ready to Go? Judging and Juggling Technologies at NASA” Jonathan Coopersmith | Department of History “Ho Chi Minh and Americans: Love and Hatred in Socializing Vietnamese Youth During the War (1965-1975)” Olga Dror | Department of History “Infrapolitics: The Project and its Politics. Allegory and Denarrativization. A Note on Posthegemony.” Alberto Moreiras | Department of Hispanic Studies “The 2014 Ioppa Maritime Project” Shelley Wachsmann | Department Anthropology and Nautical Archaeology Program

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Overview of

Grants & Awards 11

Graduate Students

TOTAL RECIPIENTS OF GRANTS & AWARDS by the Glasscock Center in the 2014-2015 Academic Year

Undergraduate Students

37 Faculty

“The faculty fellowship is beneficial to the studies being sponsored by the Glasscock Center and for me as an under-represented individual working in academia. This Glasscock Center award signifies my credibility as a scholar among the faculty ranks at Texas A&M Univesity. Also, this fellowship provided me and my lab staff the resources to pursue research-based strategies for increasing, engaging, and leveraging diversity among the faculty on campus as well as the opportunity to contribute to administative policies under review.” ~ Adrienne Carter-Sowell

16 • overview of grants and awads

Awarded in 2014-15 $ Each Grant

Max. Per Year

$8,500

FACULTY GRANTS

Internal Faculty Residential Fellowship

$34,000*

$5,000

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship

$40,000

$5,000

Undergrad Scholars Program (Faculty Directors)

$20,000**

$1,000

Publication Support Grant

$1,000

$1,500

Non-tenure Track Faculty Research Fellowship

$4,500

$750

Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant

$2,250

$2,000

Collaborative Grant

$101,750 Awarded in 2014-15 $ Each Grant

Max. per year

$2,000

GRAD STUDENT GRANTS

Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship

$18,000

$3,000

Brown Graduate Fellowship

$6,000

$1,000

Graduate Research Matching Grant

$2,000

Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award

$4,000#

$28,000 Awarded in 2014-15 $ Each Grant

Max. per year

$2,000

UNDERGRADUATE GRANTS

Undergrad Scholars Program (Students)

$24,000

$24,000 Awarded in 2014-15 $ Each Grant

Max. per year

GENERAL GRANTS+

$500

Co-sponsorship Grant

$18,000

$500

Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant

$6,000

$5,000

Notable Lecture/Symposium & Small Conf. Grant

$13,760

$1,500

Humanities Working Groups

$30,000

$50,060 * ** # +

$1,000 bursary; $7,500 course buyout to department $15,000 from University Honors Program; $5,000 from College of Liberal Arts $2,000 from Glasscock Center; $2,000 from Cushing Library General Grants are awarded to a combination of faculty, students, and staff

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Internal Faculty

Residential Fellows Four Faculty Fellows receive a semester’s release from teaching and a $1,000 bursary to pursue their research projects while in residence at the Glasscock Center. Fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Glasscock Center by being in residence at Texas A&M University during the release semester and by occupying the office provided in the Center. Recipients of the award participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series (along with the Faculty Research Fellows) during the year in which they hold the fellowship and present their work-in-progress during the semester in residence. Projects are chosen on the basis of their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the candidate’s career and field.

Linda Radzik Professor in the Department of Philosophy Linda Radzik is a professor in the Department of Philosophy. During her spring 2015 semester residence at the Glasscock Center, Professor Radzik finished her monograph, titled Moral Bystanders: On the Social Enforcement of Morality, which focuses on a common set of moral problems in order to explore deeper issues about the nature of responsibility and the meaning of community. The problem centers around a particular character—the moral bystander—who witnesses a wrongful act. While the moral bystander judges the act to be wrong, she is neither the perpetrator nor the victim, and she has no authority with regard to the situation. What should she do? What is she permitted to do? What might she be required to do? Using the standard methodology of analytic moral theory, Professor’s Radzik’s work poses a challenge to prevailing views about moral responsibility, and suggests that many of our practices for holding one another responsible are neither well understood nor justified. By considering the justification of informal, social forms of punishment and systematically addressing the role played by third parties to conflicts, this book contributes in new ways to the literature on the issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing.

Olga Dror Associate Professor in the Department of History Olga Dror is an associate professor in the Department of History. While in residence during the spring 2015 semester, Professor Dror worked on her monograph titled Raising Vietnamese: Youth Identities in North and South Vietnam during the War (1965-1975). This book considers the war-time problem of preserving Vietnamese identity in a new generation in a country flooded not only with foreign soldiers but also with foreign culture. It also poses a broader question about the importance of identifying who or what was considered an enemy of the Vietnamese. While youth are important for any society, their often unacknowledged role increases when a society is under stress, as it is through their participation in the present that the future is made. Consequently, bringing children into historical analysis is a way to understand what is most important in how adults think about the possibilities of their own lives. Professor Dror’s examination of youth identities during war time Vietnam will fill a significant gap in the pre-existing literature, offering new perspectives on the impact of American culture and the war on Vietnamese national identity.

18 • Internal Faculty residential Fellows

Susan Egenolf Professor in the Department of English Susan Egenolf is an associate professor in the Department of English. During her fall 2014 semester residence, Professor Egenolf completed her monograph Josiah Wedgwood and the Cultivation of Romantic Taste. This book examines the contributions of Josiah Wedgwood, a master potter and entrepreneur, to the construction of late-eighteenth century and early nineteenth century aesthetics, and it argues that Wedgwood’s wares and his methods of marketing them influence the rise of neoclassicism and notions of the picturesque in British literature and art. The argument of this project depends heavily on illuminating the cultural and political contexts of Wedgwood’s life and work by uncovering specific historical details and artifacts related to that work, and this interdisciplinary study employs aesthetic theory, thing theory, gift theory, and art history to frame that argument. In the field of eighteenth century studies, this book is the first extended study of the symbiotic relationship between Wedgwood’s methods and products and the literary productions of the late eighteen century.

Shelley Wachsmann Professor in the Department of Anthropology Shelley Wachsmann is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. While in residence in the spring 2015 semester, Professor Wachsmann continued researching and editing a book-length final excavation report on his work at Tantura Lagoon, Israel. This site and its surroundings have been inhabited almost continually for the past 4,000 years, and it has proven to be an ideal environment for shipwreck archaeology of the ancient world. The report, titled Dor/Tantura Lagoon: The Ancient & Medieval History of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Written in Shipwrecks, details the findings of three extensive seasons of underwater exploration in Tantura Lagoon. The book-length report is envisioned as an innovative hybrid excavation report that will include a book linked to an open-access companion website allowing readers to explore the wrecks and artifacts in situ on their computers. This book contributes significantly to our knowledge of Mediterranean history and archaeology, particularly during the critical period of the mid-first millennium AD. A diver inspecting the shipwreck in the Tantura Lagoon

During his fellowship, Professor Wachsmann was able to complete the scanning of some 7,000 project-related images which will be posted on the accompanying project website.

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Glasscock Faculty

Research Fellows

Up to eight fellowships valued at $5,000 each are given per year. 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. Recipients of the fellowship participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series, which functions as a working group for these works-in-progress. Projects are chosen on the basis of their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the candidate’s career and field.

Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Africana Studies Program Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell worked on a project titled “Water Cooler Chatter Matters: Workplace Exclusion Examined.” This project addresses questions related to exclusion and isolation in the workplace through a multi-method set of studies that involve qualitative and quantitative data collection. These studies were designed to assess relevant individual differences in perceiving workplace ostracism experiences and the accompanying psychology, cognitive, and behavioral reactions to exclusionary social interactions. This research builds on theory and research derived from the social psychology social exclusion literature and extends to practical applications by examining the link between “outof-the-loop” experiences and the retention of women and racial/ethnic minority faculty in the professoriate. By providing comprehensive data to identify workplace ostracism experiences as an important predictor of work burnout and turnover intentions, Professor Carter-Sowell’s project makes meaningful contributions to the core interests of both Psychology and Africana Studies disciplines.

Alberto Moreiras | Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies Alberto Moreiras worked on a research project titled “Spanish Liberalism: Antonio Alcalá Galiano and María Zambrano.” This study explores the beginning and end of classical Spanish liberalism in today’s context, which is marked by the contemporary implosion of so-called neoliberalism and by the incipient paradigmatic shift toward so-called neo-structural or reconstitution economics as the infrastructure for politics in the Spanish state. On the basis of pre-existing scholarship on both Aclalá-Galiano and Zambrano, Professor Moreiras seeks to interrogate in a comparative way the historical understandings that underlie both positions of Spanish political life. This monograph will be published by University College London Press to celebrate and commemorate the founding of the Spanish Professorship at their institution. As the first ever scholarly work to present a comparison of the two liberals and two historical periods in the history of the Spanish state, this work will contribute significantly to the field of Hispanic Studies.

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Claire Katz | Professor, Department of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies Program Claire Katz worked on a project titled “If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?: Judaism, Gender, and Forgiveness.” This project examined questions related to the possibility and limits of the act of forgiveness. Can one “do enough” to appease a moral crime and can a perpetrator make amends even when the victim will not acknowledge these amends as enough? What is the relationship of justice to forgiveness? Professor Katz examines these questions with a particular eye toward two intertwined themes: what Jewish philosophy can offer in thinking about forgiveness and what role gender plays in the way we understand the act of forgiveness. To accomplish this task, Professor Katz turns to Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic commentary, “Toward the Other.” This paper was presented at the 2014 Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Paris and is one part of a larger project on gender, philosophy, forgiveness, and justice.

Emily Johansen | Assistant Professor, Department of English Emily Johansen’s project, “Thinking Globally, Acting Globally: Cosmopolitanism, Risk and Environmental Connection,” considered cultural attempts to minimize and contain risk for middle-class Western subjects and the resulting implications for cosmopolitan thinking. Through an examination of contemporary transnational literary, cinematic, and television texts, she posits the many variables of risk that re-orient how we think about cosmopolitanism, particularly from the position of Western subjects. This project focused on risk as an epistemological category rather than as an ontological reality; it remains attentive to the material realities of risk for marginalized peoples throughout the globe and posits that material risks might be diminished through imaginative risk-taking. This project asks why the reality of a very select global few is taken as representative or aspirational for cosmopolitanism. Where the work of previous critics has argued for the centrality of re-thinking cosmopolitanism to include the refugee and the migrant, this project suggests that rather than reformulating already marginalized subjects to fit into elitist models of the world, we might consider how elite subjects represent a globally discrepant position.

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James Rosenheim | Professor, Department of History James Rosenheim worked on a project titled “Making an Unmarried Life in Eighteenth-century England.” This project contributes to the ongoing historical investigations of the social and material history of men in the home by investigating a barely studied specimen of eighteenth-century British manhood—the never-married man. Professor Rosenheim’s particular subject, Edmund Herbert, lived and worked in London as Deputy Paymaster of Marines from 1720 until he died, prosperous, childless, and unmarried. By concentrating on Herbert’s life as it conformed to, resisted, and took a path apart from the normative lifecourse of manhood, this project changes our understanding of how the practices of manhood were forged at this time. Herbert’s life demonstrates the complexity of eighteenth-century manhood, combining the patriarchal with an alternative masculine code, a mix that allowed this never-married man to find a respected place in society, even while defying social norms. Professor Rosenheim’s study, which resulted in a book-length manuscript, demonstrates the need to qualify the attribution of truly hegemonic power to those patriarchal practices that have hitherto rightly—but now perhaps sufficiently—drawn the attention of social, cultural, and gender historians.

Jonathan Coopersmith | Associate Professor, Department of History Jonathon Coopersmith examined how since the inception of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, its engineers, scientists, and managers employ a range of informal and increasingly formal methods to assess the maturity of technologies. Studying the evolution of technology assessment at NASA provides the opportunity to better understand technology risk and how individuals and organizations tried to change its evaluation from art to science. This project is part of a larger history of how post-World War II American engineering assessed technology maturity and uncertainty. The study of NASA technology assessment contributes significantly to the broader historical and contemporary issues of technology development and maturity, as well as the growing academic research on risk. Professor Coopersmith’s research in this area serves as the basis for a larger project on technology assessment that will produce several articles and a book.

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N. Fadeke Castor | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Africana Studies Program N. Fadeke Castor worked on a project title “Diasporic Groundings and Religious Encounters.” This project questions the meaning of the African diaspora when it comes home and asks how blackness (or its absence) meets Africanness. It does so through a study of the spiritual circuit of priests between the “diaspora” and the “continent” that is a hallmark of the transnational Yoruba religion. Professor Castor will look at the production and performance of racial and ethnic identities in the circulation of spiritual practitioners, ideas, performances, and ritual. Her preliminary research indicates that the return of diasporic practitioners is reconfiguring local valuations of “traditional” religion, power relations, and identifications of oyinbo (foreigner; white person). In this project, Professor Castor examines the impact of visiting practitioners and priests on the “traditional” religion in Yorubaland, Nigeria. Specifically, the project attends to the tensions of identity, authority, and authenticity as they intersect with sacred knowledge transmission and spiritual economies. This research resulted in an article on women in Ifá, and it lays the groundwork for a larger study that will result in a monograph, Diaspora Comes Home: Shifting Spiritual Economies in West African and Diaspora Religion.

Kristan Poirot | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Women’s and Gender Studies Program Kristan Poirot worked on a book project titled, Forgetting Sex: Violence and Memory on the Civil Rights Trail. This project begins with the assertion that the “woman problem” in civil rights public memory is more extensive than the forgetting of particular women. The absence of women is inextricable from the de-gendering of the circulated memories of slavery, Jim Crow, and race violence. In this project, Professor Poirot considers the ways violence has become a constitutive component of the civil rights movement memorial landscape as these sites ask visiting publics to recall not only the brutalities faced by protestors but also the terrorism that was an exigency for local and national activism. She examines the ways memories of racialized violence do and do not conjure gender and sexed/ sexualized bodies in movement museums and memories. This study supplements current rhetorical scholarship on civil rights memory, which often exclusively focuses on architectural features and visual elements of these locales and neglects to attend to the relationships among race, sex, and gender in civil rights memory practices.

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Glasscock Graduate

Research Fellows The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds up to ten Graduate Research Fellowships at $2,000 each. The outcome should be a dissertation or a thesis, or a significant portion thereof. These students, along with the Brown Graduate Fellows made up the community of graduate scholars populating the Graduate Colloquium Series The students used the colloquium as a tool to improve their own writing and projects and help each other to improve the quality of the work being produced as a group.

Soyoun Kim | Department of English Soyoun Kim, PhD student in the Department of English, worked on a project titled, “Playing at Board Games: A Working-Class Orphan’s Endless Quest for Respectability in Ragged Dick.” This project examines how the sense of homelessness and displacement in nineteenth-century British and American literature is related to both the formation of domestic ideology and nation building. In particular, it focuses on the orphan characters who strive to establish their “true home” either inside or outside their own country. The direct relationship between the orphan figures and the problem of nation-building has not yet been thoroughly examined through the lens of cultural geography. By combining these approaches, Soyoun’s research seeks to better understand the ways in which nineteenth-century ideologies regarding home and nation are represented through the orphans’ quest for a home.

Anne Arundel Locker-Thaddeus | Department of Anthropology Anne Arundel Locker-Thaddeus, PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, worked on a project titled, “Changing Individuals, Changing Folklore: Mexican-American Women, the “First-Year Experience,“ at a Borderlands University, and the narrative ‘La Llorona’.” This project systematically scrutinizes the long-recognized but seldom closely examined dynamic between an individual’s cultural experience and the ubiquitous individual variations in folklore rendition. This project posits that individual cultural changes will affect how stories are told by the individual, which can in turn affect a group’s negotiated culture. This study uses a longitudinal design to compare one ubiquitous Mexican-American legend—La Llorona—as told before and after the widely recognized cultural expansion experienced by the majority of college students over their first year enrolled at a four-year, state-funded university.

Jared Miracle | Department of Anthropology Jared Miracle, PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, worked on a project titled, “Western Bushido: The American Invention of Asian Martial Arts.” This project is an investigation into the process of a rapid social shift that took place during the 1960s and 1970s, the effects of which are still being experienced, as members of an American subculture adopted a practice-based group identity, wove narratives around that identity, and repurposed a militaristic, pre-war Japanese activity to suit the needs of young American men undergoing an identity crisis due to the social unrest of the period. This project follows two lines of inquiry: archival research and personal interviews with key figures in the martial arts community.

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“My research has grown from a theoretical and textual study into a living investigation of the practical impact of literature and philosophical thought on the lives of real human beings – and an under-served and stigmatized population at that. My whole approach to humanities research has shifted since I was able to meet and get to know the prisoners whose personal transformations I’m trying to analyze.” ~ Karen Davis

Bridget Liddell | Department of Performance Studies Bridget Liddell, MA Student in the Department of Performance Studies, worked on her thesis titled, “The Public Body: Embodied Tactics and Activist Interventions on the Street in Delhi, India.” This project focuses on women’s negotiations of public spaces in Delhi, India. It explores how women in general—and activists in particular—shift Delhi’s public culture in order to intervene in dominant discourses on women’s agency in India’s capital, as well as in the dismissive, alienating narratives of the city as hopelessly violent. This project brings a performance studies perspective to the work of the Delhi-based feminist organization Jagori, which addresses the constraints on women’s street experience in the city. Bridget’s research practice incorporates the body as a source of information, negotiation, and intervention; visual and aural observation enrich the project’s understand of the physical and social spaces in which the women of Delhi engage.

Jeffrey Crean | Department of History Jeffrey Crean, PhD student in the Department of History, worked on a project titled, “Bamboo Curtains and Ivory Towers: The Influence of Academics on Changing U.S. China Policy in the 1960s.” Through his research, Crean aimed to fill the gap of in-depth scholarship and analysis of the influence of academics on U.S. China policy.

Bradley Cesario | Department of History Bradley Cesario, PhD student in The Department of History, worked on a project titled, “Naval Extremism, the British Navy League, and the Imperial Maritime League, 1895-1910.” This project explores the relationship between journalism and the professional navy in Britain during the period in question, and it demonstrates that the relationship between officials within the British Admiralty and pro-naval journalists and the resultant “navalist” journals, newspapers, and books disseminated throughout Britain by these journalists and their supporters encourage increasingly radical war goals throughout the Edwardian period and beyond. This project brings histories of the Admiralty, the British press, and British literature during the period in question into communication with each other to fill a gap between military and cultural histories of the First World War period. This focus on the relationship both official and unofficial between the Admiralty and the press provides a new perspective on the navalist era and suggests a much higher level of involvement between the two groups than has been previously surmised.

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Thomas Loder | Department of Geography Thomas Loder, PhD student in the Department of Geography, will work on a project titled, “Post-Disaster Environmental Subjectivities: Producing Fracking Subjects in North Dakota.” This project considers two hydraulic fracturing (fracking) disasters that occurred in North Dakota. Loder studies the Casselton and Tiogra disasters as culturally produced traumas that influenced the formation of subjecitivities beyond the disaster sites. This research will examine direct trauma among residents in Casselton and Tioga, while using media discourses to understand broader trauma. Collected data will help to support the thesis that trauma narratives affect how one becomes a “fracking subject.” Thomas’s research contributes to human geography by advancing fossil fuel subjectivities within the environment subjectivities framework, while exploring the influence cultural trauma has on subjectivities.

Maki Iisaka | Department of Architecture Maki Iisaka, PhD student in the Department of Architecture, works on a project titled, “Modernism and the Question of Tradition in Postwar Japanese Architecture.” This study focuses on the architecture of Togo Murano, Kenso Tange, and Seichii Shirai. These major postwar figures represent three different spheres that may be described as the commercial, the public, and the philosophical. Maki aims to disentangle the complex relations between form, identity, and modernity in their work from the period of the post-war economic miracle, when a rapidly commercializing society was transforming the meaning and representation of tradition in design. This is accomplished by counter-posing various readings of the buildings, ranging from written historical accounts on the perception of Japanese tradition and implicit messages conveyed through photography in journals and magazines to a formal and experiential analysis of buildings in the context of present-day views on cultural identity.

Karen Davis | Department of Philosophy Karen Davis, PhD student in Philosophy and Master’s student in English, worked on a project titled, “Performing Community: Prison Shakespeare and the Role of the Arts in Ethical Life.” This project argues that education in the arts suggests a path toward restoring ethical communities that have been violated, disbanded, or corrupted. The profound effect of the arts on community formation can be seen at the very limits and margins of community, namely, in prisons. The practice of what have come to be called “prison arts” exemplifies aesthetics’ central place in rescuing modern life from its fractured character and reconstitution community from among the excommunicated. This project is distinctive in its philosophical appropriation of the practice of prison arts, which is largely informed by Davis’ Master’s work in English, which focuses on the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Kentucky. Insofar as theater constitutes a serious kind of play that fosters social change and even models a utopian conception of community, this project argues that it shows itself to be an ideal vehicle for cultivating ethical intersubjectivity and community.

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Graduate Fellows Two scholarships of $3,000 each were awarded to support graduate student research in the humanities. Fellows were provided offices in the Glasscock Center for the duration of the award year. These grants were made possible by the generous gift of Maggie and Corey Brown ’92.

Harris Bechtol | Department of Philosophy Harris Bechtol worked on his dissertation titled, “Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Figure of the Event,” during his 201415 residence. This project examines the philosophical significance of our encounters with death. Specifically, two questions guide Harris’s project: what happens philosophically when the Other dies? And insofar as God can be defined as one such other, what if anything remains of God after the event of God’s death? In order to adequately pose these questions and to attempt a response, Harris maintains that we must first think through the nature of the event. He argues that the death of the other is the site for thinking about the event because such death exposes us to the nature or reality of things, to Being itself, as an event in which we participate and find ourselves. The death of the other shows this because when the other dies, not only is the individual who has died lost, but also what the world means to that individual and what the world has meat to those in relationship with this individual. The death of the other is, then, the death of a world. This death places us precariously at a juncture between not only the loss of a world but also a potent possibility of a new world. This death marks as much an ending as well as an opening for the coming of a different world and a new relation to it.

Steven B. Davis | Department of History Steven B. Davis was in residence during the 2014-15 academic year, during which time he continued to research the grass-roots cooperation between Czech dissidents and intellectuals in Western Europe and the changing narratives of the expulsions of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia between 1945-1947. Davis’ research speaks to current debates in modern Czech, German, and European history. Scholarship on German expulsion history downplays the role of expellees in West German society and politics after the liberalization of West German foreign policy in the early 1970s. His research argues that this period enabled expellee organizations to expand outreach efforts with Czech émigrés across Europe and in Czechoslovakia, and contacts that were forged with the Czech underground encourage a revision of expulsion history in both countries that downplayed old antagonist perpetrator-victim dichotomies and highlighted post-Helsinki European values of universal human rights. This project argues that the framing of the expulsion issue in GermanCzech dialogue of the 1990s, as well as the Europe-wide reconciliation efforts and transnational history-writing initiatives of the early 2000s can all trace their roots back to cooperation initiatives between Germans and Czechs in the 1970s-80s.

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Glasscock Undergraduate

Summer Scholars

The objective of this program is to expand undergraduate research in the humanities by providing an intensive summer research experience in which students are introduced to important research questions, trained in methods of research and analysis, and guided in the development of critical thinking, independent learning, and communications skills. The students enrolled in a two-week intensive seminar taught faculty directors. In the seminar the students were immersed in a focused topic and developed a research question that they continued to investigate under the mentorship of the faculty member for the remaining eight weeks of the summer. Students attended writing studios created especially for this program through the Writing Center on topics including: How to Use the Library; How to Formulate a Research Question and Answer It (methods, research); Writing a Proposal Topic; and Peer Review of Draft.

Faces of Evil in Philosophy, Religion, and Literature Faculty Director: Dr. Daniel Conway | Department of Philosophy and Humanities STudents: Katherine Parada Humberto Gonzalez Nunez Steven Haug Laura Reid This two-week seminar was an interdisciplinary investigation of several depictions and personifications of evil that have been influential in philosophy, religion, and literature. Over the course of this investigation, Professor Conway introduced students to his own interpretation of evil as the “unfamiliar familiar.” The seminar was designed to explain why attributions of evil tend to be minimal, remote, tentative, and ultimately unrealistic.

Mission on the Rhine: The American Occupation of Germany, 1945-9 Faculty Director: Dr. Adam Seipp | Department of History STudents: Isabella Martin Matthew Lee Greeson This two-week seminar focused on the history of Germany under occupation from 1945-1949 in order to understand the dramatic transformation the country made after the fall of Hitler’s Reich in Spring 1945. Surveying a range of topics including American military history, history of the Holocaust, democratization, gender and sexuality, modern German history, and the Cold War, students traced the emergence of a new and durable political and social order from the turmoil of the Second World War.

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The World of the Ballad Faculty Director: Dr. Jennifer Goodman Wollock | Department of English STudents: Grace Kelly Brock West Casey Robertson Amy Arndt This two-week seminar was an intensive introduction to the study of the ballad, with the goal of familiarizing a new generation of student-scholars with this fundamental and too often neglected genre. Students assessed the impact of the ballad on English and American literature, international connections, and as an ongoing vehicle of cultural transmission across time, space, gender and classes from the Middle Ages to the present.

Golden Age Theory Laboratory: Reading Spanish Renaissance Classics through a Postmodern Lens Faculty Director: Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf | Department of Hispanic Studies STudents: Maci Greene Jackie Marcheschi This two-week seminar was devoted to creating a “theory laboratory” where students could experiment with applying a variety of postmodern literary theories (feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, New Historicism, biopolitics, book history, etc.) to Renaissance Spanish literary texts. This involved teaching the basic principles of each of these theories as well as introducing the students, often for the first time, to primary texts by Cervantes, Quevedo, Calderon, Zayas, and other classic authors of the Spanish Golden Age. The process was cumulative in the sense that each primary text could potentially be analyzed in light of any and all theories discussed, in order to see which theory or theories might be most applicable in each case (our motto was Cinderella’s: “if the shoe fits, wear it”). The course thus sought to address the frequent disconnect between theory and practice by integrating theoretical abstractions with a hands-on, get-messy willingness to experiment in the literary realm.

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3-year Seminars Organized and led by faculty directors from departments in the College of Liberal Arts and programs affiliated with the Glasscock Center, these three-year seminars provide a forum for a wide variety of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the humanities and social science disciplines to present and discuss research in progress, invite speakers, and host symposia. These seminars meet regularly during the three-year cycle, and participants are expected to define and complete a major project by the end of their three-year term. Outcomes might include but are not limited to: edited volumes, a series of articles, a database, or other project that makes a major impact in humanities. Grants of $3,000 are provided each of the three years that the seminars are in existence.

Critical Childhood Studies

1914 and the Making of the Twentieth Century

Seminar Co-Directors: Lucia hodgson | Assistant Professor, Department of English

Seminar Director: Adam Seipp | Associate Professor, Department of History

CLAUDIA NELSON | Professor, Department of English

“1914 and the Making of the 20th Century” includes a major international conference that was held in College Station on 18-19 September 2013 and a publication timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I’s outbreak in 2014. The conference sought to move beyond historical studies of the war and offer an assessment of the conflict’s impact on the world of the twentieth century and beyond.

Critical Childhood Studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on figurations of the child in the humanities. The field embraces the study of social constructions of childhood, children’s literature and culture, the child in legal theory, the social agency of the child, the child’s experience across national and historical boundaries, and child development theories in the social sciences, among other topics. The Seminar’s ongoing activities included regular meetings of faculty, graduate students, and members of the community to discuss topics in childhood studies scholarship, and a discussion series for undergraduates focusing on issues relating to childhood in popular culture.

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This project is rooted in history, but brings practitioners from a range of other disciplines including, agriculture, anthropology, art history, conflict archaeology, epidemiology, international relations/security studies, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies.

Media and Religion Seminar Director: HEIDI CAMPBELL | Associate Professor, Department of Communication The Media and Religion seminar brings together faculty and graduate students interested in studying topics related to the intersection of media, religion, and culture, from a variety of disciplines. The aim is to create an interdisciplinary conversation and research community on campus, which can connect with an international network of scholars also studying the way different media inform and influence religious meanings, messages, and communities in contemporary society. In order to focus these explorations the seminar will give attention to questions related to the presentation and performance of religious identity in media contexts and the negotiation of religious authority within media culture. The Media and Religion Seminar addresses the role media plays in religious and cultural change, and how religious messages in the media can shape social and life politics, nationally and globally.

Contemporary Latin American Democracies Seminar Director: Alberto Moreiras | Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies The proliferation of new leftwing governments in Latin America over the last fifteen years marks the breakdown of the Washington consensus and the subcontinental end of the dominance of the neoliberal policies that had marked the states of Latin American democracy since the public debt crisis of 1982. Latin America confronts today the possibility of various populist revolutions, variously termed under the concepts of the “Communal State,” “Andean Capitalism,” a resurgent “Peronism,” or even so-called “Movement Communism” by some of the political agents to the left of governing configurations. The possibilities for a deterioration of the Latin American political system are therefore at least equal to the possibilities for a reinvention of Latin American democracy on a large scale. As a region defined by its colonial and postcolonial history and with endemic social inequality, it is only natural that Latin America has become today a symptomatic point of pressure for the political future of humanity as a whole.

Continental Philosophy Seminar Director: Daniel Conway | Professor, Department of Philosophy Continental Philosophy is a multi-disciplinary field that takes its bearings from the seminal insights and influential theories that emerged in the fertile, postKantian period of European philosophy (roughly, 1800present). Major figures of influence include Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Bergson, Sartre, Beauvoir, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou, and Agamben. Traditions and developments central to the field of Continental Philosophy include: German idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Lebensphilosophie, deconstruction, post-colonial studies, Holocaust studies, negative theology, and liberation theology. Students and scholars of Continental Philosophy may be found in any number of academic disciplines and settings at contemporary colleges and universities.

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Other

Faculty Grants Publication Support Grant

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Research The Glasscock Center offers Fellowship

Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant

awards of $1,500 to support the costs of publishing a manuscript of humanitiesrelated scholarship. This grant is intended to cover costs for substantive enhancements to the manuscript which are required for publication (graphics, maps, tables, permissions, subventions, figures, translation costs, and the like).

The Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant supports interactions between faculty and students focused on investigations of ethical issues or ethics in general. Grants of $750 were awarded to support development of a course that engages ethical questions throughout the semester. Efforts may be channeled through existing or new courses, free-standing seminars, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, visiting speakers, or other events. Courses address ethical questions – past or present – pertinent to contemporary societies, cultures, and individuals.

Vanita Reddy Department of English

Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture (Temple University Press, 2016)

The Glasscock Center offers up to two awards of $1,500 each per semester to support humanities research projects conducted by non-tenure track faculty employed by Texas A&M University. Angela Ahlgren Department of Performance Studies “Drumming Asian America: North American Taiko Conference 2015” Jennifer Jones Barbour Department of Communication “Visible Citizenship: The McMillan Plan and the Transformation of the National Mall” Leonardo Cardoso Lecturer in Music, Department of Performance Studies “Sound and Crime in Brazil”

Fashioning Diaspora by Dr. Vanita Reddy

Marian Eide Department of English “Gender and Ethics” Patrick Burkart Department of Communication “Radio, Records, and Popular Music ” John Edens Department of Psychology “Special Topics in Psychology and Law”

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Grants Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Research Award This award supports research projects in the humanities that are based on the collections of the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. The committee awards funding for up to two projects in the amount of $2,000 each. This award is made in conjunction with the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. Recipients conducted their research in the Cushing Library and Archives during the summer of 2014 and presented their research at the CushingGlasscock Award Presentations on 14 November 2014.

Student Research Week Humanities Award The Glasscock Center provided prizes of $85 each to the top Humanities oral and poster presentations in the undergraduate and graduate categories. Oral Presentation Winners Undergraduate Taylor Laufenberg Graduate Edna Ledesma De Leon Poster Presentation Winners Undergraduate Hunter Hampton Graduate Crystal Dozier

Hillary Anderson Department of History “Radicalizing the South: Race and Sexuality in the 1970s Civil Rights Struggle” Kate Ozment Department of English “The Page and the Stage: Women’s Commercial Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century” Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award Presentations

Dr. Sarah M. Misemer and Crystal Dozier at Student Research Week

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Events

Notable Lectures

Non-Islamic

Determinants

of Arab Protest

Monday, April 13, 2015 7:00PM 601 RUDDER TOWER, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Dr. Gilbert Achcar PROFESSOR OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Professor Gilbert Achcar – one of the world’s leading experts on conflict in the Middle East – specializes in non-religious Arab-Arab disputes. There has been little journalistic coverage of the economic and secular political issues that are the fundamental cause of a great deal of Middle Eastern violence. He has written

The Glasscock Center supports notable lectures by speakers of preeminent interdisciplinary reputation that will both promote the humanities and contribute broadly to the intellectual community. 13 April 2015 “Non-Islamic Determinants of Arab Protest” Gilbert Achcar | University of London School of Oriental and African Studies

eleven books and over a hundred articles on the Middle East. His book The People Want (University of California Press) is an important reinterpretation of the events of Arab Spring that goes beyond the standard clichés to link popular protest to frustrating political blocks on normal processes of economic development.

Free and open to the public SPONSORED IN PART BY: Department of Sociology Department of International Studies Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness

RELATED EVENT: Morning Coffee Hour with Dr. Gilbert Achcar Monday, April 13, 2015 9:00-10:00AM 311 GLASSCOCK BUILDING

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Coffee, tea, pastries, and casual conversation with Dr. Gilbert Achcar.

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Co-sponsored Symposia and Small Conferences The Glasscock Center supports the humanities at Texas A&M University by providing support for symposia and small conferences that showcase and promote scholarship and research in the humanities. 17-18 October 2014 “Making Sense: Handwriting and Print” Symposium Speakers: Vera Camden | Kent State; Case Western Reserve University Ellen Gruber Garvey | New Jersey City University J. Keith Vincent | Boston University Julian Waters | calligrapher, type designer and educator Heather Wolfe | Folger Shakespeare Library

19 November 2014 “Neglected Writers of the Gulag” Symposium

ZERO HOUR:

World War II After 70 Years A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:00AM - 4:00PM

311 GLASSCOCK BUILDING, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On April 30, a group of scholars from a range of disciplines will consider the impact of that conflict on the world in which we live. Presenters will discuss the war and its aftermath in politics, literature, art, and on the lives of veterans who fought its battles. SESSION I: 10:00 – 11:30AM CHAIR: Lorien Foote (HIST)

SESSION II: 1:00 – 2:30PM CHAIR: Roger Reese (HIST)

Nathan Bracher (INTS): “Writing the Past in the First Person Present Imperfect”

Jennifer Jones Barbour (COMM): “Remembering the Greatest Generation: WWII Monuments and American Memorial Culture”

Adam Seipp (HIST): Liberation Day: “History, Memory, and the Death Marches” Joshua Shifrinson (BUSH): “Allied Leaders and the World After the War”

Marian Eide (ENGL): “Poetry after Auschwitz: Holocaust Memoir and the Challenge of Beauty” Brian Linn (HIST): “The US Army Faces its Postwar Future”

KEYNOTE LECTURE AT 3:00PM

Dr. Robert Citino UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

“Commencement Day: Victory in Europe” Dr. Robert Citino is Professor of History at the University of North Texas. He is a widely-recognized authority on the German military during the Second World War and has written a number of books on various aspects of military history. His most recent book, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Losing War in 1943, won the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in 2013.

Free and open to the public SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: The “World War II and its Global Legacies Initiative” at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

For more information, visit

glasscock.tamu.edu/programs/co-sponsored-events/zerohour

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6-7 March 2015 “Body, Memory and Trauma,” Texas A&M University 5th Annual Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference Keynote Lecture: “A Hornet’s Nest of Heretics: New Christians and the Mexican Inquisition” Richard Kagan | Johns Hopkins University

30 April 2015 “Zero Hour: World War II After 70 Years” Keynote Speaker: “A Hornet’s Nest of Heretics: New Christians and the Mexican Inquisition” Robert Citino | Department of History, University of North Texas

Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant

The Case of Chasing Ice: Using Documentary Films & Social Media to Engage Citizens & Policy-makers about Climate Change Issues April 27, 2015 | Chasing Ice screening & panel discussion | 6-8:30 p.m. | Rudder Theatre Reception | 5-6:00 p.m. | Rudder Exhibit Hall About the Presentation: Orlowski’s presentation will include discussions about the making of Chasing Ice, the effective use of social media to help engage political leaders and policy-makers about climate change policy, and the power of film to create local impact about global issues such as climate change.

About the Film: Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography and has gone on to screen at more than 50 festivals around the world. It places a spotlight on climate change using a blend of time-lapse photography and innovative cinematography techniques. With the use of revolutionary time-lapse cameras, Chasing Ice compresses years of glacial retreat into hauntingly beautiful videos that follow a world-class photographer’s endeavor to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.

About the Speaker:

Jeff Orlowski is the director of the documentary Chasing Ice, which he began shooting as an undergraduate at Stanford University. A photographer and filmmaker, Jeff Orlowski has worked exclusively with National Geographic photographer James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey, which has led him to document the effects of climate change in some of the most extreme climates and places on earth. He is the founder of exposurelabs, a production company geared toward socially relevant filmmaking. His work has aired on the National Geographic Channel, CNN and NBC and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, NPR and Popular Mechanics. He has traveled on tour representing the Sundance Institute, President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment of the Arts. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Sponsored by: Office of Public Partnerships & Outreach, College of Liberal Arts, Texas Institute of Climate Studies, Office of Sustainability, Department of Communication, Department of Geography, Department of Environmental Studies, Film Studies Program, Texas Sea Grant, Academy of Visual & Performing Arts, Glasscock Center, Aggie Cinema, Aggie Agora, and Media Rise

For information: Contact Dr. Srividya Ramasubramanian at srivi@tamu.edu

The purpose of this grant is to enhance the campus climate by nurturing collegiality, diversity, pluralism and the uniqueness of individuals through activities that include things like performances and speakers. This grant differs from the Co-sponsorship Grant in that the focus is not necessarily strictly a scholarly presentation, but should fulfill the mission of creating learning through activities that foster multicultural enrichment. Active political campaigns are not sponsored. 11-12 April 2015 Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Southern Plains Chapter Keynote Lecture: “A Hornet’s Nest of Heretics: New Christians and the Mexican Inquisition” Deborah Wong | Professor of Music, UC Riverside The Glasscock Center supported the Maroon Steel Pan Ensemble’s performance during this conference.

13 April 2015 “Performing (in) the City: Affective Oscillations” Reuben May, Cecilia Giusti, David Matarrita, Leonardo Cardoso, and Jeff Morris discussed the multiple relationships between urban space and performance. 27 April 2015 “The Case of Chasing Ice: Using Documentary Films & Social Media to Engage Citizens and Policy-makers about Climate Change Issues” 12 March 2015 DarkMatter Performance

Morning Coffee Hour with Dr. Gilbert Achcar

“Neglected Writers of the Gulag” Symposium

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Co-sponsored

Events

(continued) Co-sponsored Lectures The Glasscock Center supports the humanities at Texas A&M University by co-sponsoring public lectures, performances with a humanities research component, and scholarly presentations by visitors from outside the university. 6 October 2014 “A World Behind Wire: The Nazi Camp and Ghetto System, 19331945” Geoffrey Megargee | Senior Applied Research Scholar in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 10 November 2014 “Returning to Stay? Jews in Germany after the Holocaust” Andrea Sinn | DAAD Visiting Professor of History and German, UC Berkeley 18 November 2014 “Civil Society, Protest and the Ukraine Invasion” Harley Balzer | Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University 13 February 2015 “The Post-Impressionist Dress” Jane Garrity | Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado-Boulder 20 February 2015 “Family Stories and the Making of History: The Case of the Grandparents I Never Had” Ivan Jablonka | Univerité Paris 13 26 February 2015 “On Looking” Lia Purpura | Writer in Residence, University of Maryland 27 February 2015 “Teaching Poetry in a Juvenile Corrections Facility” Jim LaVilla-Havelin | Instructor, Cindi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center

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Presents

Geraldine Brooks Reading and Discussing

March

Photo by: Randi Baird

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:00 p.m. Annenberg Presidential Conference Center

1002 George Bush Drive West College Station, Texas Book signing to follow reading

Organized and sponsored by TAMU Department of English with support from: Bryan Collegiate High School • Barnes & Noble Bookstore • Blinn College • BryanCollege Station Eagle • College Station High School • Clara B. Mounce Public Library • Half-Price Books • Larry J. Ringer Public Library • Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Images courtesy of Penguin Speakers Bureau: http://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/geraldine-brooks/

For more information please email bvr@tamu.edu or call 845-3452 Or visit the Brazos Valley Reads website http://www.english.tamu.edu/brazos-valley-reads

3-4 March 2015 “Taboo: A Video Production Workshop” with Anat Zuria Anat Zuria | Documentary and Feature Filmmaker (independent) 9 March 2015 Film Screening of Black Box by Anat Zuria

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF

U.S. TRIBAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE

20TH & 21ST CENTURIES Friday, April 10, 2015 3-4 p.m.

6 April 2015 “Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung” Peter Zinoman | University of California, Berkeley

Glasscock Center Library, 311 Glasscock Building, Texas A&M University Lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

PROF. KIM TALLBEAR Department of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin

The author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (2013), Kim TallBear is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the racial politics of “gene talk” in science and popular culture. A former environmental planner, she has recently become interested in the similarities between Western constructions of nature and sexuality, particularly how “sex” and “nature” can be understood differently in indigenous worldviews. Dr. TallBear draws on indigenous, feminist, and queer theory in her teaching and research that focus on undermining the nature/culture split in Western society and its role in colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, environmental degradation, and speciesism. Dr. TallBear blogs about these topics and more at www.kimtallbear.com. She is a tribal citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota and is also descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

Sponsored by: Indigenous Studies Working Group and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

THE MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK CENTER FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH 305 Glasscock Building • Texas A&M University • 4214 TAMU • College Station, TX 77843-4214 Phone: (979) 845-8328 • Fax: (979) 458-3681 • glasscock@tamu.edu

LIBERAL ARTS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

10 April 2015 “U.S. Tribal Citizenship in the 20th and 21st Centuries“ Kim TallBear | Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin 14 April 2015 Reading and Discussion of March by Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks | Pulitzer Prize-winning author

MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK CENTER FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH

23-25 April 2015 2015 Hannah Arendt Circle HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE April 23-25, 2015

SUPPORT FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL HANNAH ARENDT CONFERENCE PROVIDED BY

AT T E X A S A & M U N I V E R S I T Y

euc

European Union Center

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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Glasscock Humanities

Working Groups

The Glasscock Center encourages interdisciplinary research and scholarship by providing up to $1,500 in annually renewable support to self-constituted groups of faculty and students engaged in exploration of thematically-related research questions in the humanities. Participants share the goal of stimulating intellectual exchange through discussion, writing, viewing, reading, and other activities that further their inquiries into common scholarly concerns. Brains, Learning, and Animal Behavior (BLAB) Convenor: Dr. Gary Varner, Philosophy Cognoscenti Convenor: Dr. Jyotsna Vaid, Psychology Digital Humanities Convenor: Dr. Richard Furuta, Computer Science, Dr. Maura Ives, English, and Sarah Potvin, University Libraries Early Modern Studies Convenors: Dr. Nandra Perry and Meghan Parker, English Ekphrasis Working Group Convenor: Dr. Janet McCann, English History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture Convenor: Dr. Nancy Klein, Architecture Indigenous Studies Convenors: (Fall) Dr. Shona Jackson, English; (Spring) Dr. Angela Pulley Hudson, History Language Matters Convenor: Dr. Maria Irene Moyna, Hispanic Studies Latino/a Studies Convenor: Dr. Lisa Y. Ramos and Dr. Felipe Hinojosa, Department of History Literacy Studies Convenor: Dr. R. Malatesha Joshi, Teaching, Learning, and Culture

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Medieval Studies Convenor: Dr. Britt Mize, English New Modern British Studies Convenors: Dr. Susan Egenolf and Dr. Emily Johansen, English Performance and Culture Convenors: Dr. Eleanor Owicki, and Dr. Kim Kattari, Performance Studies Queer Studies Convenors: Dr. Daniel Humphrey, Film Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Dr. Krista May, Associate Editor of World Shakespeare Bibliography Religion and Culture Convenors: Dr. Daniel Schwartz, History, and Dr. Rebecca Hankins, TAMU Libraries, Africana Studies Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Convenor: Dr. C. Jan Swearingen, English Social, Cultural, and Political Theory Convenor: Dr. Daniel Conway, Philosophy South Asia Studies Convenor: Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya, English War, Violence, and Society Convenors: Dr. Adam Seipp and Jared Donnelly, History Women’s and Gender Studies Convenor: Dr. Joan Wolf, Women’s and Gender Studies Program

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