2018-2019
MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK CENTER FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL REPORT
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 awards residential fellowships, research fellowships, course development grants, funding for working groups, publication support, and research matching awards for independent and cross-disciplinary research in the humanities. Fellows and grant recipients are integral to the Center’s on-going programs and activities through their participation in bi-weekly coffees, faculty and graduate colloquia, working groups, and seminar series. The Glasscock Center also recognizes outstanding scholarship annually with an international book prize, the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, which is accompanied by a guest lecture from the recipient. Coordinated by the Glasscock Center, the Mary Jane and Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics supports an annual lecture, a roundtable discussion, and course grant on the investigation of ethical issues. 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 ’59 and Susanne M. Glasscock, which constitutes a sustaining endowment for the Center. 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
People
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Letter from the Director
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Glasscock Center Director and Associate Director
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New Glasscock Initiatives
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Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
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An Unbreakable Legacy
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Collaborations
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Faculty & Graduate Colloquium Series
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Morning Coffee Hour
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Overview of Grants & Awards
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Fellows
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Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program
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Three-Year Seminars
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Co-sponsored events
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Humanities Working Groups
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Other Grants
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PEOPLE 2018 - 2019 GLASSCOCK CENTER STAFF Emily Brady, Director Jessica Howell, Associate Director Amanda Dusek, Program Coordinator Roxanne Moody, Business Administrator Julie Rakowitz, Undergraduate Apprentice (Fall 2018), Program Aide (Spring 2019) Angel Solis, Media and Communications Undergraduate Apprentice (Spring 2019) Brittnie Spornhauer, Undergraduate Apprentice (Spring 2019) Louis Whitworth, Media and Communications Undergraduate Apprentice (Spring 2019) Margarita Zollo, Undergraduate Apprentice (Fall 2018), Program Aide (Spring 2019)
2018 - 2019 ADVISORY COMMITTEE Shelley Wachsmann, Professor, Department of Anthropology Kevin Glowacki, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture (Fall 2018) Nancy Klein, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture (Spring 2019) Randall Sumpter, Associate Professor, Department of Communication (Fall 2018) Heidi Campbell, Professor, Department of Communication (Spring 2019) Marian Eide, Associate Professor, Department of English Christian Brannstrom, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Geography Alain Lawo-Sukam, Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies Angela Pulley Hudson, Professor, Department of History L. Brett Cooke, Professor, Department of International Studies Rumya Putcha, Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies Amir Jaima, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Joe Ura, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Political Science Matthew Vess, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Tazim Jamal, Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences Theresa Morris, Professor, Department of Sociology (Fall 2018) Harland Prechel, Professor, Department of Sociology (Spring 2019) Lynn Burlbaw, Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture David Chroust, Associate Professor, University Libraries Livia Stoenescu, Instructional Associate Professor, Department of Visualization
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A LETTER
FROM THE DIRECTOR In May 2018, I arrived at Texas A&M to begin my directorship of the Glasscock Center as the first Susanne M. & Melbern G. Glasscock Director’s Chair. Over the past year, I have been struck time and again by the welcoming and generous atmosphere on campus, and it has been especially rewarding to meet the wonderful faculty and students across the University. In learning about the transformative research being carried out here, I feel truly honored to lead the Center and its mission of fostering and celebrating humanities research among the community of scholars at Texas A&M and beyond. Since my arrival, the Glasscock team has created a new vision; central to this vision are the three key ideas of research, collaboration, and community. Our work will strengthen world- leading humanities research among faculty and students through grants, programs, and new initiatives, and incubate cutting-edge research and explore emerging areas in the humanities by serving as the humanities hub at Texas A&M. We will cultivate new collaborations between the humanities and disciplines beyond the humanities, and establish new partnerships with state, national, and international humanities centers, institutes, and programs. As we do so, we will bring the humanities into the world by integrating the public humanities into all of the Center’s activities and connect with diverse communities through public engagement in order to impact civic life. To implement our new vision, we have developed a detailed, dynamic plan with new research activities, initiatives, and interdisciplinary and community partnerships. New plans and ideas succeed if they grow from well-established, fertile ground: I am very grateful to our interim Director, Laura Mandell, and our past Director, Richard J. Golsan, for their leadership and guidance during the Center’s recent transition. As we start to live our vision, the Glasscock Center is beginning an exciting new phase of activity. We have upgraded our physical and digital spaces, and were delighted to launch a newly designed website and further enhance our social media presence. We have welcomed a new Associate Director, Jessica Howell, Associate Professor in the Department of English. Two new initiatives have been launched which bring together faculty from across the University and seek to promote inter-
disciplinary dialogue. Global Health Humanities, led by Dr. Howell, draws upon humanistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives to explore the lived experience of global health issues, in collaboration with Health and Kinesiology, History, Sociology and Anthropology. Humanities: Land Sea Space, led by myself, is focused on urgent questions and issues related to nature-society relationships. This initiative has already sparked meaningful conversations between faculty and students in philosophy, human geography, English, history, oceanography, sustainability research, and the arts at Texas A&M. In 2018-2019, the Center continued its program of interdisciplinary humanities research through our Fellows’ Colloquia series, Working Groups, Undergraduate Summer Scholars, Three-Year Seminars, and co-sponsorship of major events which reflect key public debates and humanistic concerns, such as, “Media Literacy and Civic Engagement in a Digital World,” and “Reverberations of Memory, Violence, and History: The Centennial of the 1919 Canales Investigation.” The Nineteenth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship was presented to Ruth Carbonette Yow for her study of segregation, desegregation, and resegregation in Marietta, Georgia, in Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City . The following pages present a full report of conferences, symposia, notable lectures, and visits by distinguished faculty during the fall and spring – testament to the wholehearted participation from the University community. We hope you’ll agree that it has been a wonderful year! Let me close with a major highlight of 2018-2019, the formal celebration of our fifteen-year anniversary recognizing the extraordinary generosity of Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock to the Center and the College of Liberal Arts. Their generosity has made possible vital work in the humanities which has had and continues to have a lasting impact on Texas A&M faculty, students, visiting scholars, and the wider public. As we move forward with our new vision, let me take this opportunity to warmly thank the Glasscocks once again.
Emily Brady
Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair Professor of Philosophy
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GLASSCOCK CENTER’S
DIRECTOR & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR EMILY BRADY Emily Brady became Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research in May 2018. She is the third director of the Center and the first holder of the Suzanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director’s Chair. Dr. Brady came to Texas A&M from the University of Edinburgh, where she was Professor of Environment and Philosophy. She is also a Professor of Philosophy, with research and teaching interests spanning aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, and animal studies. She has published seven books, including Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh University Press, 2003) and The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Her current book project is a philosophical history of aesthetics of nature in the eighteenth century. Since assuming leadership of the Glasscock Center, Dr. Brady has been dedicated to broadening interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaborations across the University through the Center’s new initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space, and demonstrating the vital importance of the humanities by increasing public engagement.
JESSICA HOWELL Jessica Howell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She completed a PhD in English at the University of California, Davis, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London. Her first monograph, Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate , was published in 2014 by Edinburgh University Press, and her second book is titled Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Dr. Howell teaches courses in Victorian literature, literature and medicine, the Health Humanities, and women’s travel writing. She also has led a Summer Scholars program on “Epidemics in Literature/ Literature as Epidemic.” Dr. Howell convenes the Health Humanities Seminar at the Glasscock Center and the T3 group on “Global Health Humanities.” She is leading the new Glasscock initiative, Global Health Humanities.
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N EW G LAS S C O C K I N I T I AT I V E S
HUMANITIES: LAND SEA SPACE In a world of climate change and the Anthropocene, pressing global issues concerning environmental and intergenerational justice, human-nature relationships, coastal and island communities, and more-than-human ethics – among many others – call upon the critical methods of the arts and humanities, as well as perspectives from the social and natural sciences. As a new Glasscock Center initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space will catalyze research activities across a variety of disciplines and contexts at Texas A&M and beyond, and contribute to current debates in the environmental humanities, blue/ marine humanities, geohumanities, energy humanities, and public humanities. Texas A&M is one of only seventeen universities in the United States with the triple designation of land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university. In the spirit of the Glasscock Center’s mission, Land Sea Space seeks to benefit and impact a broad intellectual community, beginning with the humanities and social sciences and extending to disciplines such as architecture, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, and health and veterinary sciences. The initiative began with an Exploratory Forum in December 2018, featuring a keynote lecture by Becky Mansfield (Geography, Ohio State), “Epigenetic Life: At the Intersection of Postgenomics, Anthropocene & Deregulation.” In April 2019, Land Sea Space held its first reading group, gathering faculty and students from a variety of disciplines to read two articles focused on environmental justice. In 2019-2020, the initiative’s focus will be on oceans and seas.
Exploratory Forum keynote speaker, Becky Mansfield
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N EW G LAS S C O C K I N I T I AT I V E S
GLOBAL HEALTH HUMANITIES The growing field of Health Humanities seeks to understand cultural practices and products related to health and illness. In particular, by examining different forms of human expression, the humanities offers necessary insight into the lived experience of global health issues. This initiative examines the narrative and artistic expression of individuals’ experiences of illness and health in a global context, by inviting discussion of such forms as song, performance, written narrative, oral history, and visual media. Using methods drawn from the humanities and humanistic social sciences, this initiative explores such topics as health inequities, access to care, gender health disparities, colonial and neocolonial health discourses, human health and climate change, human health and ecology, and immigration and health. Such interdisciplinary scholarship is necessary to better comprehend the historical, political, and economic impact of global diseases.
Lectures by Violet Showers Johnson (Left) and Angela Hudson (Right)
EVENTS Sustainable Development and Well-Being in the Yucatan, Mexico: Developing a Local Survey
HIV/AIDS Biopolitics, State and Sexually
Instrument that Links Across Scales
Marginalized Groups in India
Allison Hopkins | Anthropology | Texas A&M
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti | Sociology | Texas A&M
Historical, Cultural, and Environmental Factors that
The Story of Malaria and Ebola in Oral History
Impact Nutrition Status in Timor-Leste, SE Asia
and Written Words
Christine Tisone | Health and Kinesiology | Texas A&M
Violet Showers Johnson | History | Texas A&M
‘Irregular Woman’: Indian Doctresses and 19thCentury American Medicine Angela Hudson | History | Texas A&M
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THE SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK
HUMANITIES BOOK PRIZE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP
The Glasscock Book Prize, originated by the Texas A&M Center for Humanities Research and first awarded in 1999, was permanently endowed in December 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock ’59 and his wife Susanne M. Glasscock, for whom the prize is now named.
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Submissions Received
The 19th Prize was awarded to Dr. Ruth Yow for Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City .
one that challenges many of the orthodoxies— including colorblindness—inherited from the mid-twentieth century civil rights struggle.
In Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City , Ruth Carbonette Yow draws on over one hundred interviews with current and former Marietta High School students, parents, teachers, community leaders, and politicians, to write an innovative and compelling ethnographic history which invites readers onto the key battlegrounds of the school’s struggle against resegregation. The book begins with the first generations of Marietta High’s desegregators authorized by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling and follows the stories of later generations who saw the dream of integration fall apart. The failure of local, state, or national policies to stem the tide of resegregation is leading activists—students, parents, and teachers—to reject traditional integration models and look for other ways to improve educational outcomes among African American and Latino students. Dr. Yow argues for a revitalized commitment to integration, but
Dr. Yow is a historian and ethnographer of justice struggles and public education. She has a PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from Yale University. Dr. Yow continues to work with the youth who populate the pages of Students of the Dream through her service as a board member and volunteer with Marietta YELLS (Youth Empowerment through Learning, Leading, and Serving). She also teaches and tutors with a prison education nonprofit, Common Good Atlanta. Her current position as Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain allows her to engage her background in equity and community-based movements to facilitate transformative teaching, learning, and longterm projects across the campus and the city of Atlanta. Students of the Dream was a finalist for the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize and shortlisted for the Victor Turner Prize.
Book Prize Community Event
Book Prize Lecture and Presentation
Pat Rubio Goldsmith (Sociology, TAMU) facilitated a public Q+A with Dr. Yow at the Brazos Valley African American Museum on March 27, 2019.
Dr. Yow gave a public lecture at the Glasscock Center Library entitled “Students of the Dream: Reimagining Integration in the American South” and accepted the award on March 28, 2019.
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AN UNBREAKABLE LEGACY GLASSCOCK CENTER CELEBRATION
JANUARY 2019
This gala celebrated 15 years of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and honored Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock ’59 for their impactful philanthropy to the College of Liberal Arts and Texas A&M University.
Top Left: Larry Walker, Senior Director of Development; Emily Brady, Director; Susanne and Melbern Glasscock; Pamela Matthews, Dean of Liberal Arts
GLASSCOCK CENTER OPEN HOUSE
JANUARY 2019
After a busy season of renovations to the Center, developments under the new director, and various projects, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research opened its doors for an Open House. All were welcome to visit the Center to learn about its current activities as well as its history. The Center’s archives were showcased, including event flyers beginning in the 1980s up to the present. Refreshments and conversation were enjoyed by all in the Glasscock Library.
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The Glasscock Center, within the College of Liberal Arts, 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.
AWARDS 548
560+
Awards to faculty for humanities-related research
Awards to graduate students for humanitiesrelated research
140+
Awards to undergraduate students for research
$1 MILLION $522,OOO $18O,OOO 380+
GRANTS
40+
Grants for co-sponsorship of public lectures, performances, exhibits, symposia & conferences, etc. to contribute to the intellectual life and multicultural enrichment of the community
Grants to support Working Groups, our essential incubators for transformative research, interdisciplinary collaboration, publications, and more
$475,OOO
$41O,OOO
BOOK PRIZES 19
Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
$2O,OOO 11
COLLABORATIONS As part of its work in the Public Humanities, the Glasscock Center collaborates with various programs, initiatives, and external organizations to benefit faculty and students in interdisciplinary humanities research at Texas A&M University, local communities, and the wider world beyond the academy.
BRAZOS VALLEY READS Brazos Valley Reads: Colson Whitehead “Revisiting The Underground Railroad” | April 9, 2019, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center The Glasscock Center provides major co-sponsorship of Brazos Valley Reads events. Brazos Valley Reads is a community effort organized by Texas A&M University’s Department of English. The community reading program was started in 2005 to encourage bridge-building between TAMU students and faculty, and the Brazos Valley community at large. Published in 2016, The Underground Railroad tells a fictional story against the backdrop of American slavery in the 1800s. Main characters Cora and Caesar use the Underground Railroad to attempt freedom--but in this telling, the Underground Railroad is depicted as a rail transport system in addition to a series of safe houses and secret passages. It has been described as combining elements of fantasy with a truthful depiction of our country’s history.
HUMANITIES TEXAS AND TEXAS A&M VETERAN RESOURCE AND SUPPORT CENTER:
VETERANS’ VOICES April 2019, Glasscock Center The Glasscock Center hosted Veterans’ Voices, a program series for veterans, their families and friends, and other interested civilians. Veterans’ Voices brings veterans, military families, and members of the public together in small groups to read aloud from literary texts about war, military service, and the return to civilian life. After the readings, participants engaged in facilitated conversations that explored how the texts relate to their own experiences and allowed for shared reflection on combat and civic responsibility. The Veterans’ Voices program is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program in College Station was led by SGM Donald Freeman, USA (Ret.), and Melissa Huber of Humanities Texas. Discussion leaders from the College of Liberal Arts, and the University more widely, facilitated these rewarding conversations.
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F A C U LT Y & G R A D U AT E
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 works-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. The colloquium series is comprised of Glasscock Center Fellows (Glasscock Faculty Residential Fellows, Glasscock Faculty Research 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.
Jennifer Mercieca, Communication | Internal Faculty
Vanita Reddy, English | Internal Faculty Residential
Residential Fellow Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical
Fellow Global Intimacies
Brilliance of Donald Trump
Mingqian Liu, Architecture | Graduate Research
Dong An, Philosophy | Graduate Research Fellow
Fellow Community Museum’s Impacts on Tourism and
Emotions: The Distinction Between Function and
Historic Preservation – Case Study from Shijia
Values
Hutong Museum in Beijing, China Emily Johansen, English | Internal Faculty Residential
Leonardo Cardoso, Performance Studies | Faculty
Fellow Risk, Safety, and Reconfiguring the
Research Fellow State Acoustics in Brazil
Cosmopolitan Subject
Hazal Hurman, Sociology | Graduate Research Fellow
Desirae Embree, English | Graduate Research Fellow
Discipline and Banish: Racialization of “Terror-
Private Pleasures, Public Provocations: ‘Dyke
suspect” Kurdish Juveniles in Turkish Neoliberal
Porn’ and Lesbian Sexual Entertainment in the
Penal Regime
Late 20th Century
Felipe Hinojosa, History | Faculty Research Fellow
Dinah Hannaford, International Studies | Faculty
Apostles of Change: Radical Politics and the
Research Fellow Aid and the Help: Domestic Work and
Making of Latina/o Religion
International Development
Erika Weidemann, History | Graduate Research
Dalitso Ruwe, Philosophy | Graduate Research Fellow
Fellow From Chortitza to Canada and the United
The Black Immortal Child: Frederick Douglass
States: The Post-World War II Immigration of
and American Slavery
Ethnic Germans 13
Olga Dror, History | Faculty Research Fellow Formation of Ho Chi Minh’s Cult and Its Role in the Construction of Vietnamese Statehood
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
FROM GLASSCOCK FELLOWS
Deanna Stover, English | Graduate Research Fellow Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 1815-1914 Randall Sumpter, Communication | 2016-2017 Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Maria Irene Moyna, Hispanic Studies | Faculty Research Fellow Tex Mix: Bilingualism in Texas Music
Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules (University of Missouri Press, 2018)
Michael Morris, History | Graduate Research
Marian Eide, English and
Fellow Waging War in I Corps: III Marine Amphibious
Women’s & Gender Studies | 2017-2018 Faculty Research
Force Headquarters in Vietnam, 1965-1971
Fellow
Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Katherine Unterman, History | Internal Faculty
Twentieth-Century
Residential Fellow The Legal Foundations of American Empire
(University of Virginia Press,
Literature 2019)
Aaron Lira, Geography | Graduate Research Fellow Hear no water, speak no water, see no water: A Sensory Ecology approach to water resources in central Oregon Jessica Howell, English | Faculty Research Fellow
Anat Geva, Architecture | 2016-2017 Internal Faculty Residential Fellow
Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture (Routledge, 2019)
Nursing Narratives and Decolonization
Theresa Morris, Sociology Elizabeth Earle, Communication | Graduate Research Fellow ‘The Word is Action’: The Rhetoric of Miguel de Unamuno’s Journalistic Writings
| 2015-2016 Internal Faculty Residential Fellow
Health Care in Crisis: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change
Nancy Plankey-Videla, Sociology | Faculty Research Fellow The Role of Media in Facilitating a Contested Community of Resistance in Anti-Immigrant Times 14
( New York University Press, 2019)
MORNING COFFEE HOUR The Glasscock Center hosted an informal coffee hour every other Wednesday morning during the semester. Discussion was guided by featured guests who discussed their research or other topical ideas.
Carmela Garritano, Africana Studies & Film Studies |
Angela Hudson, History | 2017-2018 Internal Faculty
2017-2018 Internal Faculty Residential Fellow
Residential Fellow ‘Indian Doctresses’ in the 19th-century United
Uranium Extraction and Electrified Imaginaries:
States
Putting African Cinema in Conversation with Energy Humanities
Cara Wallis, Communication | 2017-2018 Internal
Hoi-eun Kim, History | 2017-2018 Internal Faculty
Faculty Residential Fellow Social Media and the Ordinary: Affect, Aspiration,
Residential Fellow Disaggregating ‘Japanese’ Doctors in Colonial
and Transformation in Contemporary China
Korea: A Preliminary Prosopographical Analysis
Ashley Passmore, International Studies | 2017-2018
Ira Dworkin, English | 2017-2018 Faculty Research
Faculty Research Fellow Post-Nationalism and Its Discontents
Fellow Nicholas Said, the Civil War, and the Emergence of African American Narrative
NEW FACULTY COFFEE HOUR In order for new faculty to become acquainted with the Glasscock Center, fellow colleagues, and other humanities scholars, the Glasscock Center hosted a New Faculty Coffee Hour.
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OVERVIEW OF GRANTS & AWARDS OPEN TO ALL
49 Total Recipients of
GRANTS & AWARDS
4
FACULTY
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UNDERGRADUATE
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GRADUATE
As a historian here at Texas A&M, I have benefited greatly from the financial and
communal support provided by the Glasscock Center. In addition to their gracious financial support, the Glasscock Center has provided me with a scholarly community to help me
think through some of my research ideas, where I’ve workshopped several book chapters, and where I’ve listened to brilliant scholars share from their work around the world.
Felipe Hinojosa History
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Faculty Grants Grant Title
Number Awarded
Total Amount Awarded
Internal Faculty Residential Fellowship
4
$34,000
Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship
6
$30,000
Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program (Faculty Directors)
2
$10,000*
Publication Support Grant
4
$6,000
Non-Tenure Track Faculty Research Fellowship
3
$3,450
19
$83,450
Number Awarded
Total Amount Awarded
Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship
10
$20,000
Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award
2
$4,000**
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$24,000
Number Awarded
Total Amount Awarded
4
$8,000
4
$8,000
Number Awarded
Total Amount Awarded
Humanities Working Groups
20
$30,000
Notable Lecture/Symposium & Small Conference Grant
10
$24,176
Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant
9
$3,800
Co-Sponsorship Grant
10
$4,915
49
$62,891
Total * Awarded by LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research
Graduate Grants Grant Title
Total ** $2,000 from Glasscock Center, $2,000 from Cushing Library
Undergraduate Grants Grant Title
Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program (Students)
Total
Open to All Grants Grant Title
Total
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2018 – 2019
INTERNAL FACULTY RESIDENTIAL FELLOWS EMILY JOHANSEN English | “Risk, Safety, and Reconfiguring the Cosmopolitan Subject” Emily Johansen worked on a project which examines depictions of global danger and safety in contemporary transnational texts to re-imagine the sites and practices of global citizenship. Limiting observations of risk to primarily, or only, places of underdevelopment, be at home and abroad, ignores how risk shapes all lives at a global scale. The ability to ignore risk or shift it to others underscores the fact that it is mitigable for particular segments of society while inescapable for others. Bringing cosmopolitan theory about global citizenship into interdisciplinary conversation with feminist and queer studies’ theories of affect and vulnerability, and sociological and economic theories of risk, allows Johansen to consider how risk and vulnerability create new forms of and possibilities for global community. The research focuses on the way transnational cultural texts, which emphasize border crossing and global interdependences, bring these concerns together and imagine new ways forward.
JENNIFER MERCIECA Communication | “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Brilliance of Donald Trump” Jennifer Mercieca’s project examined the brilliance of Trump’s rhetorical strategies by moving back and forth between the unusual political context of 2016 and the strategies themselves, especially his use of Argument Ad Hominem (attacking the person), Argument Ad Baculum (threats of force), Argument Ad Populum (appeals to the people), Reification (treating people as objects), Paralipsis (I’m not saying, I’m just saying), and appeals to American Exceptionalism. In 2016, historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, media, and traditional political leadership provided the context for Trump’s surprisingly successful presidential campaign. While his speeches seemed simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized, Mercieca argues that the presidential campaign strategy was anything but simple. Trump’s campaign expertly used the typical rhetorical techniques of demagoguery in conjunction with sophisticated public relations techniques to appeal to the already frustrated and distrustful electorate. These strategies were so effective that they enabled him to amplify pre-existing frustration and distrust and to position himself as the nation’s only credible leader.
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Four Faculty Fellows receive a course release 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 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.
VANITA REDDY English | “Global Intimacies” Vanita Reddy’s project, “Global Intimacies,” examines cultural production from the global South Asian diaspora—North American East Africa, South Africa, the U.K., and the Caribbean—in relation to Black and Indigenous populations. While studies of cross-racial political alliances within comparative studies of race and diaspora have relied predominantly upon heteromasculinist framings of political relationality over the last twenty years, Reddy asks: how might a feminist and queer framing of cross-racial solidarity allow for a more politcally robust conceptualization of global racial justice? Reddy goes beyond western socio-historical contexts to critique heteronormative and patriarchal frameworks that have remained dominant within comparative studies of race and migration. Her research connects global, large-scale social formations (e.g. human migration, capitalist expansion) to intimate, smaller social formations (e.g. the tactile and unseen, the erotic, the private, the body), arguing that the intimate can “more fully reveal political possibilities and limitations for challenging the imperial legacies of racial separatism and insularity.”
KATHERINE UNTERMAN History | “The Legal Foundations of American Empire” After 9/11, when the United States began confining terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, some thorny legal issues emerged. Although Guantanamo was under U.S. control, it was unclear whether detainees possessed constitutional rights, such as the Fifth Amendment right to due process, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. This was not the first time such questions arose. When the matter came before the Supreme Court, it turned to a precedent set a century earlier—a series of decisions in 1901 known as the Insular Cases. Kate Unterman’s project examines the impact of the Insular Cases in order to uncover how law has undergirded American empire. Few historians of U.S. foreign relations explore the judiciary, yet it has played an essential role in American international power. Her study takes a transnational perspective, investigating how decisions in Washington affected people on the ground from Puerto Rico to the Philippines. It contributes to the interdisciplinary Law and Society movement, which calls for scholars to pay attention to the role of law in social, political, economic, and cultural life.
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2018 – 2019
FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS LEONARDO CARDOSO Performance Studies | “State Acoustics in Brazil” Leonardo Cardoso’s project investigates the potentialities of sound as a channel for democracy. It examines the role of sound and hearing in the relations between state and civil society in Brazil between the 1960s and 2010s. A collection of case studies comprise the project, each of which sheds light on civil participation and state accountability in nationally relevant events: the use of sound (including music) as an instrument of state violence during the military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s; the use of wiretapping as a legal instrument; and acoustic architectonics
OLGA DROR History | “Formation of Ho Chi Minh’s Cult and its Role in the Construction of Vietnamese Statehood” The first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, became the center of a newly created political religion that was essential in establishing and maintaining Vietnamese statehood and that eventually became part of the Vietnamese religious landscape. In her project, “Formation of Ho Chi Minh’s Cult and its Role in the Construction of Vietnamese Statehood,” Olga Dror traces the origins of Ho Chi Minh’s veneration and his own role in cementing his image as the leader of the nation and the Uncle, the head of the Vietnamese national family. This research puts Ho Chi Minh’s cult in a comparative perspective with other personality cults, and is an important contribution to the comparative study of political cults.
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These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding 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. Up to seven fellowships valued at $5,000 each are given per year. Recipients of the fellowship participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series, which functions as a working group for their 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.
DINAH HANNAFORD International Studies | “Aid and the Help: Domestic Work and International Development” Dinah Hannaford worked on a project which uses the relationships between international aid workers and their domestic employees as a prism for exploring issues of race, gender, privilege and power in the international development industry. Through ethnographic interviews with development workers in Senegal and with the Senegalese maids, nannies, cooks, security guards and drivers who work for them, as well as participant observation in Dakar, Hannaford examines the myriad contractions and complications of the lived work of development practice.
FELIPE HINOJOSA History | “Apostles of Change: Radical Politics and the Making of Latina/o Religion” In the late 1960s, young Mexican American and Puerto Rican activists— from the Young Lords to Católicos Por La Raza—took to the streets in cities across the country to protest urban renewal and the Vietnam War; they organized to protect their neighborhoods and worked in anti-poverty programs. An overlooked aspect of this activism is the contested relationships and the garrulous dialogues that emerged between these radical groups and religious organizations, mainly churches and clergy. Felipe Hinojosa’s project focuses on these movements by examining a few relatively unknown church occupations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, and how these relate to an explosion of Latina/o theological and religious activism in the 1970s that, as he argues, set the stage for the emerging Sanctuary movement in the 1980s.
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2018 – 2019
FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS C O N T I N U E D JESSICA HOWELL English | “Nursing Narratives and Decolonization” Over 8,000 nurses were recruited and sent to work in British colonies by the Colonial Nursing Association between 1896 and 1966. Jessica Howell’s project examines archival documents related to decolonization and the Association held at the Oxford Bodleian Library. It analyzes a selection of letters, poetry, and recruitment articles written between 1940-1964, especially about Kenya and Uganda, in conjunction with scholarship on women and empire and archival studies, in order to interpret the significant silences within the colonial nursing archives. Howell suggests that the subject of knowledge-making in the archive becomes of especially acute importance when considering the era of decolonization. It, therefore, thinks critically about how the materials are selected and organized, as well as considering their content.
MARIA IRENE MOYNA Hispanic Studies | “Tex-Mix: Bilingualism in Texas Music” Maria Irene Moyna worked on a project which focuses on SpanishEnglish mixing in songs by Texas-born Mexican American songwriters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bilingual lyrics were transcribed and analyzed for language-mixing to ascertain form, socio-pragmatic function, and theme in an effort to help map the evolution of bilingual Texas music. Moyna notes several recurring bilingual phenomena, including two main kinds of Spanish-English mixing: lexical switches and inter-sentential code-switching at poetic boundaries. Artists also display their bilingual ability by producing English and Spanish versions of a single song, by having metalinguistic references and humor, and most spectacularly, by producing cross-linguistic rhymes. Formal features underscore themes that cut across historical periods, most pointedly, the contrast in the social roles of both languages. Texan bilingual music emerges as a surreptitious tool to legitimize Spanish in the public sphere by flouting the constraints imposed by hegemonic monolingualism.
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NANCY PLANKEY-VIDELA Sociology | “The Role of Media in Facilitating a Contested Community of Resistance During Anti-Immigrant Times” Nancy Plankey-Videla‘s project examines how the nexus of the current deportation regime and the carceral state shape Latinx immigrants’ everyday lives in Bryan/College Station. It aims to understand how the Bryan/College Station immigrant community use old media (radio) and new media (Facebook) to create community and make sense of the unsettling hyper-precaritization regime. Plankey-Videla asks: What role do racialized, gendered, sexualized and classed identities play in building a contested community through old and new media to resist the omnipresent sense of deportability and intrusion of the state? How do old and new media differently shape the content and form of the debates and the ability to create spaces of solidarity and resistance?
The Glasscock Center Fellowship
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Olga Dror
Faculty Research Fellowship
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GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS DONG AN Philosophy | “Emotions: The Distinction Between Function and Values” Dong An’s project, “Emotions: The Distinction Between Function and Values,” focuses on how emotions and values are related. In this philosophical research, she develops an account that explains value in terms of what the subject sees fitting, i.e., what emotion is appropriate according to the subject’s biographical history, including her sensibility, character traits, personality, and the contexts where those features are developed.
ELIZABETH EARLE Communication | “‘The Word is Action’: The Rhetoric of Miguel de Unamuno’s Journalistic Writings” In order to illuminate new methods of resisting political ideologies, Elizabeth Earle’s project analyzed the rhetorical strategies used by Miguel de Unamuno in his newspaper articles. Although most famous as an author of fiction and philosophy, Unamuno wrote 3,000 newspaper articles in which he spoke out against various 20th century Spanish political regimes. In the midst of national crisis and polarization, Unamuno used articles to critique the political and social structures of the time. Earle argues that he utilized the genre of the newspaper article to expose dogma that controlled Spanish society and to unite the people of Spain into a community. By examining Unamuno’s unique approach, she suggests that we can come to understand the public intellectual in a new way.
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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 make up the community of graduate scholars participating in 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.
DESIRAE EMBREE English | “Private Pleasures, Public Provocations: ‘Dyke Porn’ and Lesbian Sexual Entertainment in the Late 20th Century” Desirae Embree worked on a project which studies an under-examined moment in both lesbian history and the history of pornography, in which queer women capitalized on both existing queer media cultures and new media technologies in order to create sexual entertainment for their own community. The project seeks to challenge conventional narratives about lesbian sexuality by examining a small and short-lived pornographic industry that was committed to providing sexual material made by and for lesbians. Embree’s work stands to make significant contributions to both lesbian studies and pornography studies, both of which have overlooked these texts and the conditions of their making. Spanning a variety of media technologies and practices including live performance, print, video, phone hotlines, voicemail, letter-writing, photography, and more, this project seeks to counter narratives of lesbian history that emphasize the political over the erotic, arguing that lesbian sexual desire and practice were the engine for unprecedented lesbian cultural productivity and entrepreneurship.
HAZAL HURMAN Sociology | “Discipline and Banish: Racialization of Terrorsuspect Kurdish Juveniles in Turkish Neoliberal Penal Regime” In 2006, the Turkish Anti-Terror Law (TMK) expanded the definition of terror crime by introducing the new legal category of “terror-suspect juveniles” that encompassed politically active children and youth. Since then, this special law disproportionately criminalizes Kurdish minors particularly at the times of social and political unrest. Hazal Hurman’s project addresses the judicio-political and cultural implications of the criminalization of Kurdish juveniles by the TMK. For the former, it re-examines the implications of extra-legal violence, exception and decisionist elements for the constitution and preservation of Turkish legal and penal regime. For the latter, it addresses the meanings that are conveyed to wider public by the criminalization of Kurdish minors as “terror-suspects”. Along these lines, it formulates the TMK as a racial project, which racializes Kurdish youth by associating Kurdishness with terrorism, marking the Kurdish juveniles and making Kurdish ethnicity the basis of justifying and reinforcing social discrimination.
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2018 – 2019
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS C O N T I N U E D AARON LIRA Geography | “Hear No Water, Speak No Water, See No Water: A Sensory Ecology Approach to Water Resources in Central Oregon” Aaron Lira worked on a project about the sensory ecologies of place in central Oregon, in which he argues that there are fundamental shifts in farmers’ sensory experiences of their own lands, water, and regions that are politically crafted. The research explores stressors that are changing perceptions of place for farmers in a physical landscape that is not changing. Given mounting concerns about climate change and visions for sustainability within the American agricultural community, this work details a regional record of human sensorial experiences in a state of flux. Lira’s project investigates both localized and wider socio-spatial connections that compete and culminate in sensory ecologies of place. The livelihood transitions seen here are expected globally as water resources become increasingly scarce.
MINGQIAN LIU Architecture | “Community Museum’s Impact on Tourism and Historic Preservation – Case Study from Shijia Hutong Museum in Beijing, China” Mingqian Liu worked on a project which focuses on public perceptions of historic preservation policies and practices in Beijing’s historic and cultural conservation areas since the 1990s. Shijia Hutong Museum was the first of its kind in Beijing, built as part of the neighborhood conservation-planning project to promote hutong culture and heritage protection. Based on literature review, participant observation, and stakeholder interviews, this study examines the socio-cultural, political, and economic impacts of the museum on tourism and historic preservation. Liu’s research aims to contribute to the overall body of knowledge on Beijing’s historic neighborhood preservation and revitalization, as well as offer experience and recommendations for historic preservation efforts in other residential neighborhoods, both in China and other parts of the developing world.
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MICHAEL MORRIS History | “Waging War in I Corps: III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam. 1965-1971” Michael Morris worked on a project which examines the role played by the senior Marine headquarters in the northern five provinces of South Vietnam between 1965 and 1971. This contested region, known as I Corps, featured the bloodiest fighting with the North Vietnamese Army, the strongest Viet Cong infrastructure, the disputed border with North Vietnam, key portions of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the political and economic prizes of Hue and Da Nang. This project is the first scholarly account of the war in I Corps. The research evaluates corps-level combat and pacification operations against both regular and insurgent opponents in a critical part of America’s most divisive foreign war. Specifically, the study seeks new insights into this confusing conflict by exploring critical functions such as command relations, intelligence processes, logistic support, and contingency plans by telling the story through the lens of III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), the primary U.S. tactical headquarters in I Corps from 1965 to 1971.
In addition to the research money it provided, this grant was beneficial in other ways. It created an
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GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS C O N T I N U E D DALITSO RUWE Philosophy | “The Black Immortal Child: Frederick Douglass and American Slavery” In the research project, “Black Immortal Child: Frederick Douglass and American Slavery,” Dalitso Ruwe focuses on Douglass’ interrogation of 18th-19th century racial sciences and criminal laws of slavery, as well as his critiques of American slavery’s roots in biblical, legal and ethnological arguments. The project considers the philosophical critiques Douglass developed using racial sciences to challenge the constitutionality of slavery grounded in fugitive slave laws, master and servant laws, and manumission laws. This research adds to the growing field of Critical Race Theory and African American literature by looking at the way enslaved Africans challenged the legality of their enslavement through slave petitions, political treatises, autobiographies and novels.
DEANNA STOVER English | “Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 1815-1914” Deanna Stover’s project, “Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 18151914,” investigates literary representations of toy wars in the long 19th century between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. By looking at a variety of genres from children’s literature to war game rules meant for an older audience, her project explores how adults try to restrict, structure, and even take over play using fictional violence. Stover argues that narratives about violent toys not only elucidate adult anxieties over a child’s power, but also show us that adults, in their efforts to control play, actually abstract and distance the realities of war.
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ERIKA WEIDEMANN History | “From Chortitza to Canada and the United States: The Post-World War II Immigration of Ethnic Germans” Erika Weidemann’s project uses the Mennonite world church to understand immigration networks in the post-World War II era. Her research focuses on ethnic German immigration in the post-war era, and specifically examines how religious and ethnic identities facilitated networks and influenced immigration patterns. The project traces the movements of villagers from Chortitza, an ethnic German settlement located along the Dnieper River in Ukraine. During World War II, these villagers were subject to evacuation, deportation, resettlement, and flight as they moved from Ukraine to Poland and then Germany. After the war ended, some immigrated to Canada whereas others left Europe for the United States. Influenced by religious organizations and immigration legislation, ethnic Germans successfully entered North America by shaping their identities to fit the immigration policies of the 1940s and 1950s. Weidemann’s study not only demonstrates the complexity within the ethnic German population, but ensures that the memory of Soviet Union ethnic Germans will not fade with the passing of the eyewitness generation scattered across America and Europe.
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CONSORTIUM OF HUMANITIES CENTERS AND INSTITUTES & AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
VISITING FELLOW
JOHN GRUESSER Dr. Gruesser is a Senior Research Scholar of English at Sam Houston State University. He is working on an ACLS-funded project, Man on the Firing Line: The Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs, 1872-1933.
Man on the Firing Line challenges current notions about the audience for, and the content, production, and dissemination of, politically engaged US black fiction. The project contributes to the critical reassessment not only of Sutton Griggs, but also of late 19th- and early 20th-century African American and US literary, print, and religious culture. Dr. Gruesser’s fellowship supports research in key places connected to Griggs, including Dallas, Nashville, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
VISITING FELLOW LECTURE February 2019 “ Reading Imperium in Imperio in the Context of Sutton E. Griggs’s Experiences in Texas and Virginia ”
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SUMMER SCHOLARS PROGRAM The objective of this program is to expand undergraduate research in the humanities by providing an intensive summer research experience in which students will be 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. Students (selected by faculty directors) enroll in a two-week intensive seminar taught by a faculty member at the beginning of the ten-week summer session. In the seminar, students are immersed in a focused topic and develop a research question that they will then investigate under the mentorship of the faculty member for the remaining eight weeks of the summer. Students are required to meet with each other for peer writing activities at the Glasscock Center as well as attend writing workshops created especially for this program through the Writing Center throughout the eight-week period. Faculty are encouraged to meet with students every two weeks after the intensive two-week seminar to discuss progress on each phase of the project after each of the Writing Center workshops. The Glasscock Center directs this program in partnership with LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research and the University Writing Center.
“Religion and Media: Religious (In)Tolerance and Diversity in Digital Media Culture” Faculty Director: Heidi Campbell, Communication Undergraduate Scholar: Morgan Knobloch | Major: Communication This advanced undergraduate seminar led students through an exploration of how digital media and culture contribute to public understanding of religion in contemporary society. Students were introduced to the interdisciplinary field of Digital Religion studies, which investigates how religious groups and individuals embrace, resist and/or adapt to digital technologies and the core values of digital culture in relation to their faith tradition. Through theoretical readings participants identified the common characteristics of digital media environments, how religion is practiced through digital media, and considered how this may shape popular ideas about religion in broader society. The seminar raised awareness for students about how the intersection of new media, religion, and digital culture can highlight important issues framing public discourse about religion and understandings of cultural diversity within American society. Photos, top to bottom: Morgan Knobloch, Britt Mize; Summer Scholars Public Presentations, Fall 2018
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Participating in this program gave me the chance to explore my interests in
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writing, but also perseverance and responsibility through holding myself accountable to deadlines and preparation for conducting this study to finish this thesis program.
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“Adaptation Then and Now: Medieval England and Contemporary Culture” Faculty Director: Britt Mize, English Undergraduate Scholars: Lauren Gonzalez | Major: English Ryan Randle | Major: History Sarah Trcka | Major: English This advanced undergraduate seminar involved a special engagement with “adaptation studies:” an interdisciplinary field that has mainly focused on novels turned into films, but whose theoretical features can offer powerful tools for analyzing relations among cultural objects in any medium or mode, so long as they are connected by lines of influence. The seminar explored a paradox that is central to Dr. Mize’s current research, and which unites present-day popular culture with medieval forms of cultural production: namely, the fact that most adaptations rely on the source’s authoritative, canonical status while simultaneously offering audiences something different in place of it. The summer scholars worked together to test the usefulness of a completely new application of adaptation theory. While the theory has often been used to examine instances of medievalism (that is, modern adaptations of medieval sources), never before has it been applied to acts of adaptation happening within the Middle Ages. Because our culture and medieval culture share a similar attitude to canonical works, wishing simultaneously to reassert their importance and change them, the benefits of adaptation theory for the analysis of film versions of novels, for instance, may prove equally informative for the analysis of medieval acts of appropriation and transformation.
Photos, top to bottom: Lauren Gonzales, Ryan Randle, Sarah Trcka; Summer Scholars Public Presentations, Fall 2018
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THREE-YEAR SEMINARS Organized and led by faculty 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. The 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.
LATINX IDENTITIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS (2015-2018) Organized by: Felipe Hinojosa, History This seminar commemorated the 50th anniversary dates of important moments in Latinx civil rights history. Three main themes, Labor, Education, and Poverty, were covered as part of seminar topics and coincided with three events as a way to celebrate and remember important milestones. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the United Farm Worker boycott in central California. The following years, 2017 and 2018, marked the 50-year anniversaries of the Bilingual Education Act (1967) and the Poor People’s Campaign (1968). Each of these events brought new awareness to our campus community about the importance of Latinx history and social movements.
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THREE-YEAR SEMINARS C O N T I N U E D BEOWULF’S AFTERLIVES (2016-2019) Organized by: Britt Mize, English The Old English epic Beowulf has been reinvented in hundreds of modern forms: novels in many genres, films, comic books and graphic novels, children’s books, opera and other musical settings, stage plays, board and video games, depictions in the visual arts, and more. It has been refashioned and appropriated by self-help authors (“Beowulf for Business”), social critics (“How Beowulf Can Save America”), and religious groups (fundamentalist Christian and Asatrú) in support of various ideologies and belief systems. This seminar examined this enormous variety of cultural production, asking always what the “uses” of Beowulf seem to be as it is continually retooled to suit a multitude of perspectives and desires. Beowulf adaptations offer us a chance to consider from many angles the questions of how, why, and to what ends our society values and remakes the past.
HEALTH HUMANITIES (2017-2020) Organized by: Jessica Howell, English The growing field of Medical or Health Humanities uses methods of humanistic inquiry to analyze cultural practices and products related to health and illness. Subjects of study may be as diverse as patients’ narratives of their own illness, medical portraiture, the history of epidemics, or ethical and philosophical debates about standards of care. The field is inherently cross-disciplinary and collaborative: as just one example, scholars of literature may partner with health scientists, using narrative to better understand the experiences of aging and dementia. This Seminar’s events and activities include the development and design of a Health Humanities Laboratory website, a guest speaker series, and a special issue proposal for a Health Humanities journal reflecting the research specialties of Seminar participants.
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It has been a wonderful three years as we have commemorated important
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Felipe Hinojosa
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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS NOTABLE LECTURES 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. Human Rights, Biological Citizenship, and Reproductive Policy in Japan’s Leprosy Sanitaria Mapping Medical Tokyo Susan L. Burns | University of Chicago September 27, 2018 Organized by: Hoi-Eun Kim, History
Selling Film Noir’s “Red Meat” to the Female Market Shelley Stamp | University of California Santa Cruz February 21, 2019 Organized by: Anne Morey, English
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America 10 Years Later Moustafa Bayoumi | Brooklyn College - CUNY February 28, 2019 Organized by: Ira Dworkin, English
Citizen Artist Matthew Hinsley | Executive Director, Austin Classical Guitar March 22, 2019 Organized by: Martin Regan, Performance Studies
Evolution of Performance Stories Richard Schechner | New York University April 10, 2019 Organized by: Zachary Price, Performance Studies
“Real” Animals and the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination Laura Brown | Cornell University April 4, 2019 Organized by: Linda Radzik, Philosophy, as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society
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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS 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. LBJ’s 1968 The Archaeology of the Franklin Expedition: Kyle Longley | Lyndon Baines Johnson Library LBJ’s 1968 October 1, 2018 Organized by: AndrewBaines Kirkendall, History Kyle Longley | Lyndon Johnson Library October 1, 2018 Organized by: Andrew Kirkendall, History
British Science and Technology, and Individuality in Shipwreck Historical The Archaeology of the Franklin Expedition: Archaeology British Science and Technology, and Individuality in Shipwreck Historical Charles Dagneau | Parks Canada Archaeology April 12, 2019 Organized by: Marijo Gauthier-Berube, Anthropology Charles Dagneau | Parks Canada April 12, 2019
The Color of Revolutions: Refusal in Suzanne
Organized by: Marijo Gauthier-Berube, Anthropology
Collins’ The Hunger Games Domino Renee Perez | University of Texas October 17, 2018 Organized by: Lucia Hodgson, English
The Iconic Wreck of Titanic : Issues of Law, Policy & Ethics Ole Varner | Attorney-Advisor, International Section NOAA Office of General Counsel
How to Do Things With Walter Benjamin: Operational Theory Beyond Exegis and
April 16, 2019 Organized by: Shelley Wachsmann, Anthropology
Emulation Andrew K. Thompson | Ithaca College February 12, 2019 Organized by: Robert Carley, International Studies
Responding to Climate Misinformation in a Post-Truth World John-Frederick O. Cook | Center of Climate Change Communication, George Mason University
Lecture Recital: Redefining Nationalism in Classical Guitar Repertoire
April 23, 2019 Organized by: Gunnar Schade, Atmospheric Sciences
Nicolas Emilfork | Universidad de Chile March 5, 2019 Organized by: Isaac Bustos, Performance Studies
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The grant, a first between the College
of Geosciences and the Glasscock Center,
Toward an African Future – Of the Limit of the World; Or, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Idea of Modern World History Nahum Chandler | University of California, Irvine
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Gunnar Schade
March 5, 2019
Co-sponsorship Grant
Organized by: Maddalena Cerrato, International Studies
How to Hide an Empire Daniel Immerwhar | Northwestern University March 25, 2019 Organized by: Jason Parker, History
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2019 Architecture & Film Symposium | Keynote Speech Joan Ockman | University of Pennsylvania School of Design May 4, 2019 Organized by: Vahid Vahdat Zad, Architecture
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.
Beyond Fake News: Media Literacy and Civic Engagement in a Digital World Texas A&M was selected as one of five universities where such symposia on fake news and media literacy were held in 2018. It brought together journalists, pre-K to grade-12 educators, higher education professors, and media scholars to discuss journalism and media literacy in today’s world. September 28, 2018 Organized by: Srividya Ramasubramanian, Communication
It’s Alive!: Frankenstein’s Monster 200 Years Later The “It’s Alive!” Symposium was part of a week of programming, November 12-18, at TAMU, which included a special exhibit in Cushing Library, an undergraduate poster session, and a film screening at the Queen Theatre in Bryan. These events joined the international Frankenreads project, a global celebration of the 200th anniversary of Shelley’s Frankenstein. November 15-16, 2018 Organized by: Deanna Stover, English
Reverberations of Memory, Violence, and History: A Conference for the Centennial of the 1919 Canales Investigation Over ninety years ago, a border native and the only Mexican American serving in the state legislature, José Tomas ‘JT’ Canales called for an investigation into state-sanctioned violence unleashed on the predominantly Mexican-origin community on the southern border of Texas. This conference was held on the centennial of that investigation, examining it and its ongoing legacies. January 31 – February 1, 2019 Organized by: Sonia Hernandez, History
On Heidegger’s National Humanism: A Symposium on Derrida’s Lost Geschlecht III This symposium focused on a recently discovered text by the twentieth-century French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Having brought together a renowned group of scholars, including the French editors and English translators of the text, the event opened up a less visible - but absolutely essential - dimension of Heidegger’s politics, a dimension somewhat occluded by the recent scholarship on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks. Keynotes: Geoffrey Bennington | Emory University Elissa Marder | Emory University
Katie Chenoweth | Princeton University Rodrigo Therezo | Freiburg University
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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS Graduate Student Workshop: Crossing Migrations in Current Mexican Literature The goal of this workshop was to work through and analyze the different challenges of Mexican society and how they are translated in Dr. Yuri Herrera’s literature. The workshop provided two days of intensive instruction, interaction, and feedback for graduate students, though open to undergraduate students and faculty as well, followed by a closing lecture from Dr. Herrera himself. February 14-15, 2019 Organized by: David Yague Gonzalez, Hispanic Studies
Hermeneutics, the Humanities, and the Future of Interpretation This symposium on hermeneutics, the humanities, and the future of interpretation featured John D. Caputo, who delivered a keynote address, Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information. Taking Dr. Caputo’s research as an impetus, the symposium brought together a number of preeminent scholars from different disciplines in the humanities to address the future of interpretation in leading-edge debates about various hermeneutical dimensions. February 22-23, 2019 Organized by: Kristi Sweet, Philosophy
Pop-Cultural Racism? Race, Identity, and the Dangers of Genetic Ancestry Testing The symposium addressed the role of genetic ancestry testing in transforming individual conceptions of identity in the United States. At this time of increased political and racial disharmony, these tests have the potential to further fuel debates about race and ancestry, thus the symposium was of broad interest to both the large body of biological researchers on campus, as well as to scholars of the humanities who are interested in identity and its social construction. March 1, 2019 Organized by: Cynthia Werner, Anthropology
Girls and Reading This day-long symposium provided common ground on which scholars from many different disciplines met and discussed explorations of girls’ relationships to media and print texts that are fundamental to this field. Keynote: Karen Chandler | University of Louisville April 11, 2019 Organized by: Lucia Hodgson, English
New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic World The symposium consisted of the two scholars who presented their research in public lectures at the Glasscock Center. In addition to these presentations, there was a special manuscript workshop and roundtable that discussed the book manuscript of another member of the Texas A&M History Department. April 9, 2019 Organized by: Evan Haefeli, History
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CULTURAL ENRICHMENT AND CAMPUS DIVERSITY The purpose of this grant is to enhance the campus climate by nurturing collegiality, diversity, pluralism and the uniqueness of individuals through a range of activities. The grant is open to applicants across the university, including undergraduate student organizations. Campus Walking Tour with PACSS
Below the Line: Poverty Around the World
Preservation and Conservation Student Society | Texas
Diego Contreras | Assistant Director of MSC Freshman
A&M University
Leadership International
September 17, September 25, October 3, and October
March 5, 2019
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Organized by: Emma Bernatz, MSC Freshman
Organized by: Ben Baaske, Architecture
Leadership International
Spoken Word Poetry Slam Workshop Workshop led by Loyce Gayo March 14, 2019 Organized by: Lobat Asadi, Teaching, Learning, and Culture
Performing Gender in South India Yashoda Thakore | University of Silicon Andhra March 19, 2019 Organized by: Rumya Putcha, Performance Studies
Global Leadership: Journey through the Arts Stefanie Harris |TAMU International Studies Rebecca Hankins | TAMU Interdisciplinary Critical Purple Eyes ( Ojos Violetas ) Condensed play performed by Joshua Inocencio October 24, 2018 Organized by: Kim Kattari, Performance Studies
Studies Adrian Leos | TAMU Memorial Student Center Das Ist Lustig | German Folk Band March 21, 2019 Organized by: Saul Dominguez, MSC Aggie Leaders of Tomorrow
Native American Heritage Month Film Series “Power Paths” “Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock” “People of a Feather” November 1, 8, and 15, 2018 Organized by: Angela Hudson, History
Why Come to TAMU? Advertising Campaign for the Arab World Emran El-Badawi | University of Houston November 29, 2018 Organized by: Natalie Khazaal, International Studies
Communicating Diversity Conference 2019 Tiara Na’Puti | University of Colorado March 28-29, 2019 Organized by: Grace Brannon, Communication
Community Partner Open House: Texas Freedom Colony Project Planning Meeting Julian Chambliss | Michigan State Rachel Afi Quinn | University of Houston April 18, 2019 Organized by: Andrea Roberts, Architecture 39
HUMANITIES
WORKING GROUPS The Glasscock Center encourages innovative 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, film screenings, work-in-progress presentations, field trips, reading and other activities that further their inquiries into common scholarly concerns. Caribbean and Atlantic Studies
History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
Convenors:
Convenor:
Evan Haefeli, History
Nancy Klein, Architecture
April Hatfield, History Indigenous Studies Cognoscenti Convenor:
Convenor: Angela Pulley Hudson, History
Darrell Worthy, Psychology Jewish Studies Community Food Security and Food Justice Convenor: Sarah N. Gatson, Sociology
Convenor: Claire Katz, Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies
Critical Childhood Studies Convenors: Lucia Hodgson, English Claudia Nelson, English Nicole Wilson, English Allison Estrada-Carpenter, English
Early Modern Studies Convenors: Margaret Ezell, English Damian Robles, Hispanic Studies
Energy Humanities Convenors: Christian Brannstrom, Geography Clare Palmer, Philosophy
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Jewish Studies Working Group Event
Language Matters Convenor: Maria Irene Moyna, Hispanic Studies
Latinx Cultural Production
Sound Studies
Convenors:
Convenor:
Alberto Moreiras, Hispanic Studies
Leonardo Cardoso, Performance Studies
David YagĂźe, Hispanic Studies JesĂşs Rivera, Hispanic Studies
Literacy Studies Convenor: R. Malatesha Joshi, Teaching, Learning, and Culture
Medieval Studies Convenors: Katayoun Torabi, English Noah Peterson, English
Sound Studies Working Group Event
New Modern British Studies
South Asia Studies
Convenors:
Convenors:
Susan Egenolf, English Deanna Stover, English
Jyotsna Vaid, Psychology Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology
Science and Technology
War, Violence and Society
Convenors:
Convenors:
Jonathan Coopersmith, History Martin Peterson, Philosophy
Adam Seipp, History Michael Morris, History
Science Fiction Studies Convenors: Jeremy Brett, University Libraries Francesca Marini, University Libraries Apostolos Vasilakis, English
Social, Cultural, and Political Theory Convenor: Daniel Conway, Philosophy War, Violence, & Society Working Group Meeting
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OTHER GRANTS NON-TENURE TRACK FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 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.
Matthew Delciampo
Lilia Campana
Performance Studies
Visualization
“Everywhere and Nowhere: Indie Music and the
“A Newly Discovered Manuscript by the Venetian
Construction of Whiteness in America”
Humanist and Naval Architect Bettor Fausto (14901546): The Illustrated Notebook of Vitruvius’ De Architecture in the Biblioteca Ariostesa in Ferrara, Italy”
Anthony Ives Political Science “Congressional Health”
PUBLICATION SUPPORT GRANT The Glasscock Center offers awards of $1,500 to support the costs of publishing a manuscript of humanities-related scholarship. This grant is intended to cover costs for substantive enhancements to the manuscript which are required for publication (graphics, maps, tables, permissions, figures, translation costs, and the like).
Alain Lawo-Sukam
Alberto Moreiras
Hispanic Studies
Hispanic Studies
Equatorial Guinean Poetry in its Colonial and (trans)
Infrapolitics: The Absolute Difference between Life
National Context
and Politics
Olga Cooke
Emre Side
International Studies
History
A Mind Purified by Suffering: Evgenia Ginzburg’s
Mystical and Cosmological Diagrams as Pathways
‘’Whirlwind’’ Memoirs
Towards a New Type of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman
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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 2018 and presented their research at the Cushing-Glasscock Award Presentations later that fall.
Zaida Aguilar
Alexander Crist
Hispanic Studies
Philosophy
“Oral Narrative: Transnational Testimony of the
“Tracing the Role of Don Quixote as both Translation
Mexican-American Migrant Community, as an
and Illustration in Germany (1753-1983)”
Erector of a Border Collective Memory”
STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK: HUMANITIES AWARD The Glasscock Center provided prizes of $100 each to the top Humanities oral and poster presentations in the undergraduate and graduate categories.
Oral Presentation Winners
Poster Presentation Winners
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
India Alexander
Peyton Harrison
Graduate
Graduate
Yi-Fan Li
Omar Garcia
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