Glasscock Center 2021-22 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 theworldbeyondtheacademy.

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 grants recipients are integral to the Center's on-going programs and activitiesthroughtheirparticipationinresearchlunches,facultyandgraduatecolloquia, book chats, 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 accompaniedbyaguestlecturefromtherecipientandacommunityevent.Coordinated by the Glasscock Center, the Mary Jane and Carrol O. Buttrill '38 Endowed Fund for Ethicssupportslectures,roundtables,specialevents,andcourseactivities.

Growing from Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Studies, founded in 1987, theCenterforHumanitiesResearchwascreatedbytheBoardofRegentsofTexasA&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,whichconstitutesasustainingendowmentfortheCenter.

TheGlasscockCenterisaunitoftheCollegeofLiberalArtsandislocatedonthethird flooroftheGlasscockBuildingontheTexasA&MUniversityCampus.

2O YEARS CELEBRATING

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Susanne and Melbern Glasscock

PEOPLE 2021-2022 GLASSCOCK CENTER STAFF

Emily Brady Director and Chair Professor, Philosophy

© 2022 The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

Jessica Howell Associate Director Professor, English

Amanda Dusek Program Coordinator

Roxanne Moody Business Administrator

Leigh Goyco Program Assistant

Victoria Green Graduate Research Assistant, Philosophy

Jyothis James Graduate Research Assistant, Philosophy

Kate Girvin Undergraduate Apprentice

Shannon Gonzenbach Graduate Research Assistant, English

2021-2022 ADVISORY COMMITTEE

ShelleyWachsmann Professor Anthropology NancyKlein AssociateProfessor Architecture

DonnaleeDox Professor PerformanceStudies

KristiSweet AssociateProfessor Philosophy

HeidiCampbell AssociateProfessor Communication

MarianEide Professor English&Interdisciplinary CriticalStudies

AlexanderPacek Professor PoliticalScience MatthewVess AssociateProfessor Psychology

AlainLawo-Sukam AssociateProfessor HispanicStudies&Interdisciplinary CriticalStudies

SideEmre AssociateProfessor History

FedericaCiccolella Professor PerformanceStudies

NancyPlankey-Videla AssociateProfessor Sociology ArCasiaJames-Gallaway AssistantProfessor Teaching,Learning,andCulture

DavidChroust AssociateProfessor UniversityLibraries

FROM THE DIRECTOR

As I reflect on the past year, I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of the Glasscock team to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students who have conducted their research, organized activities supported by Glasscock grants,andparticipatedinourprograms.TheCenterhascontinueditsvitalworkofsupportinghumanisticresearch,andin this annual report you’ll find our 2021-2022 funding figures, totaling $203,524 of support for the university community. Our weekly research colloquia brought together Glasscock residential faculty fellows, faculty fellows, affiliated ACES fellows, and graduate fellows to present and discuss their works-in-progress. Glasscock Working Groups hosted speakers andengagedinanexcitingrangeofinterdisciplinaryresearchactivities,whichwedescribeinthisreport.

I would like to highlight two major events of the year. In February, we hosted the Twenty-Second Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship event. Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, MacArthur Fellow and the James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, delivered a public lecture about her winning book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) and participated in a community Q&AhostedbytheRaceandEthnicStudiesInstitute.Wewerehonoredtocelebratethisdeeplyimportantworkandplaya roleinshowcasingtheimpactofDr.Fleetwood’sresearch.

Our Global Health Humanities and Humanities: Land Sea Space initiatives jointly held the “Planetary Health and the Humanities” conference on March 31 & April 1. This was among the first international conferences to bring humanistic perspectives to bear on “planetary health,” a new concept and cross-disciplinary field emerging from growing concerns over the direct impacts of environmental degradation and decline on the interdependent health of humans and ecology. Our keynote speaker was Dr. Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Founding Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. Panel topics at the conference covered Indigenous & Decolonial Approaches to Planetary Health; Pandemics, Ecology, & Wellbeing; and ClimateChange&PlanetaryHealth.

The conference served as capstone to the two research initiatives established at the Center in 2018. Humanities: Land Sea Space was created by myself, and Associate Director Dr. Jessica Howell (Professor of English) created Global Health Humanities. We complete our terms as Director and Associate Director, respectively, in August 2022. The team’s accomplishments in the last four years include increasing the impact of the Center’s work through a renewed vision, major interdisciplinary initiatives, grant programs, various improvements to both our physical spaces and digital presence, with wider accessibility to events and activities through streaming facilities. Our new vision seeks to connect the university to the wider public through projects in the public humanities and new programs such as our Humanities Festival. We launched responsive grant programs to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on research and developed the Center’s first Climate and Inclusion Plan. Our Undergraduate Summer Scholars program increased its size and scope with an eye on communicating the value of humanities’ methods to the university and beyond. Through two new appointments, wehavebuiltmoresustainablesupportfortheGlasscockCenteranditsprograms.During2021-2022,wewelcomedLeigh Goyco, Program Assistant, who assists our Program Coordinator, Amanda Dusek. In June, Dr. Ana Baginski became the Center’s first Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Baginski’s research and teaching interests focus on contemporary literatureandtheenvironmentoftheU.S.-Mexicoborder.

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the College of Liberal Arts and Texas A&M as Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair of the Glasscock Center. The outstanding expertise, enthusiasm, and commitment of faculty, staff, and students has enabled the Center to excel at carrying out its mission of fostering and celebrating the humanities and humanities research within the scholarly community at the university and in the world beyond the academy. The current team has been instrumental to our success in developing our programs and new initiatives since I began my directorshipinMay2018.I’mproudofwhatwehaveallaccomplishedtogetherand,intheyearstocome,Ilookforwardto following the Glasscock Center and its impact as part of Texas A&M’s new College of Arts and Sciences. Let me close by expressing my sincerest gratitude to Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock for their generosity and support of the GlasscockCenter.

Bestwishes, Emily

Brady

Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair Professor of Philosophy

GLASSCOCK CENTER

DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

EMILY BRADY

Emily Brady became Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities ResearchinMay2018.SheisthethirddirectoroftheCenterandthefirst holder of the Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director's Chair. Previously,Dr.BradywasProfessorofEnvironmentandPhilosophyatthe University of Edinburgh. At Texas A&M, as a Professor of Philosophy, her research and teaching interests span aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, and animal studies. She has published seven books, including Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (EdinburghUniversityPress,2003)and TheSublimeinModern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Her current book project is Aesthetics in Planetary Perspective: Environmental Aesthetics for the Future. 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 initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space and demonstrating the vital importance of the humanities by increasing publicengagement.

JESSICA HOWELL

Jessica Howell became Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for HumanitiesResearchinFallof2018.AsProfessorofEnglishatTexasA&M University, her research engages health, race, and gender in nineteenthcentury literatures of empire, as well as postcolonial Health Humanities. Her monographs are Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Malaria and Victorian FictionsofEmpire (CambridgeUniversityPress,2018).Theresearchforher current book project, titled “The Healthy Victorian Woman,” is supported by an Arts & Humanities Fellowship. She recently completed, with collaborators in History and Economics, the "Global Health and the Humanities" T3 grant and oral history project. Dr. Howell teaches courses in Victorian literature, literature and medicine, the Health Humanities, and women's travel writing. She also has taught a Glasscock Summer Scholars program on "Epidemics in Literature/Literature as Epidemic." In leading the Glasscock initiative “Global Health Humanities,” most recently Dr. Howell has invited conversations about the crucial role of the humanities in critically engaging issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. She also convenes the Health Humanities Laboratory. A special issue on “Global Health Humanities,” co-edited with Narin Hassan, has recentlyappearedwiththejournal MedicalHumanities (BMJ).

GLASSCOCK INITIATIVES

PLANETARY HEALTH AND THE HUMANITIES CONFERENCE

This two-day conference brought humanistic and interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on “planetaryhealth,”anewconceptandcross-disciplinaryfieldemergingfromgrowingconcerns over the direct impacts of environmental degradation and decline on the interdependent health of humans and ecology. The conference was held at the Texas A&M Hotel and ConferenceCenteronMarch31andApril1,2022.

Keynote Lecture: "Racial Climates, Ecological Difference"

Chair: Emily Brady |Director(GlasscockCenter),Philosophy

KeynoteSpeaker: Nancy Tuana |PennStateUniversity,Philosophy

The conference began with a keynote address on the evening of March 31st and featured both invited scholars as well as six accepted fifteen-minute papers who presented in three panels throughout the day on April 1st. The conference concluded with a

roundtable discussion, chaired by Jessica Howell (English and Glasscock Center, Texas A&M), with all of the speakers on the prospects of change, death, and optimism in the face of global climate change now and into the future.

"Overall, the conference brought together the perspectives of many disciplines, including the medical humanities, medical practice, indigenous studies, English, philosophy, geography, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The varied backgrounds of both the speakers and audience participants facilitated many valuable and cross-disciplinary discussions for understanding planetary health."

Panel 1: “Indigenous and Decolonial Approaches to Planetary Health”

Facilitator: Troy Harden | Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Sociology

Omar Rivera (Texas A&M University) “Reflections on Reciprocity”

Nicole Redvers (University of North Dakota) “The Determinants of Planetary Health: Indigenous Community Reflections”

Jordan Daniels (Pomona & Pitzer Colleges) “Mind-Body Dualism and Indigenous Place-Thought: Descartes and Watts on Nature”

Mayari Hengstermann (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) “Dumped: Impacts of Plastic Pollution Among Rural Indigenous Communities in Santa María Xalapán, Jalapa Guatemala”

-VictoriaGreen,PhilosophyandShannonGonzenbach,English

Panel 2: “Pandemics, Ecology & Wellbeing”

Facilitator: John Casellas Connors | Geography

Rosemary Jolly (Penn State University) “Decolonizing ‘Man’, Resituating Pandemic: An Intervention in the Pathogenesis of Colonial Capitalism”

Krithika Srinivasan (University of Edinburgh) “Re-animalising Wellbeing: Multispecies Justice After Development”

Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai (Tamkang University) “Climate Change, Zoonosis and Narratives of Disease in Lawrence Wright’s The End of October”

Kathryn Whitlock (University of Texas Dallas) “Caring in the Anthro-Capitalocene: The Entanglement of Butterflies, Citizen Science, and Surveillance”

Panel 3: “Climate Change and Planetary Health”

Facilitator: Troy Harden | Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Sociology

Michelle Meyer (Texas A&M University) “Irregular Disaster to Continually Crisis: The Altruistic Community Under Climate Change”

Jamie Draper (University of Oxford) “Climate Change and Displacement: Towards a Pluralist Approach”

Daniel Mahoney, MD (Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital) “Examining Proposed Solutions to Address Human and Planetary Health in the Face of Climate Change”

Priya Dave (Harvard Medical School & Mt. Sinai Hospital) “Green Space Ethics”

ThisconferencewasjointlyconvenedbytheGlobalHealthHumanitiesandthe Humanities: Land Sea Space initiativesattheGlasscockCenter.ArecordingoftheconferencecanbeviewedontheGlasscockCenter'swebsite.

GLASSCOCK INITIATIVES

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 offer 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, epidemics and pandemics, human health and ecology, and immigration and health. Such interdisciplinary scholarship allows us to better comprehend the historical, political, and economic impact of global diseases.

EVENTS

"How Has the Pandemic Affected How You Think About Your Humanities Research?"

Virtual Brown Bag Series (November 2021 & April 2022)

This informal series was meant to provide insight into emerging conversations in health and the humanities. In each session, scholars considered

questions regarding how they have refocused or reassessed their research during the pandemic. They were invited to consider and speak about questions such as the following: how has the pandemic changed your thinking about your research? How does one balance research responsiveness with long term impact? Has the scope of your research been altered to intersect with multiple fields or collaborations across disciplines? Has the pandemic challenged key terms and concepts within your field, such as migration, borders, social responsibility, inequity, and health? These events were free and open to the public.

November Speakers Panel

November 1, 2021

Facilitator: Jessica Howell, Professor | English

Sara DiCaglio, Assistant Professor | English

Omar Rivera, Associate Professor | Philosophy

Joan Wolf, Associate Professor | Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Sara DiCaglio

April Speakers Panel

April 21, 2022

Facilitator: Jessica Howell, Professor | English

Idia Thurston, Associate Professor | Psychological and Brain Sciences; Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

Rachel Lim, Visiting Assistant Professor and ACES Fellow | History

Jessie Cortez, PhD Candidate | English

“Who Owns the Stories of Our Lives?” A reading and reflection with creative writer Lise Saffran (April 25, 2022)

Chair: JessicaHowell, Professor|English

GuestSpeaker: LiseSaffran, AssociateTeachingProfessor|DepartmentofPublicHealth, UniversityofMissouri

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the English Department at Texas A&M University hosted a reading and discussion with public health storyteller, novelist, and essayist LiseSaffran.AsavisitingguestspeakerduringFall 2021, Saffran studied and discussed an archive of first-person stories about Ebola, malaria, and COVID-19 collected by the Global Health Humanities T3 grant (Howell, Showers Johnson, Dague, Yeoman). She returned to Texas A&M to read excerpts from the final draft of the creative work inspired by these stories and discuss the process of composition. Her work, entitled “CrossingtheRiver:AMeditationonInfection, ThiseventwasrecordedandcanbeviewedontheGlasscockCenter’swebsite.

Community, and Grief in a Changing World,” pieces together excerpts from oral histories, historical and literary research, and personal reflection, forming a lyrical nonfiction collage illuminating the challenges in this type of storytelling. After the reading, she reflected upon her methods and process and answered questions such as the following: in a media environment where stories both connect and divide us, how do we balance curiosity, humility, respect, and empathy as we approach the accounts of others’ lived experiences and perspectives? When are publichealthstoriessuchasthosethatinvolveEbola,MalariaandCovid-19globalhealthstories andwhenaretheyspecific,local,andpersonal?

This event series was recorded and can be viewed on the Glasscock Center's website.

Rachel Lim Idia Thurston Jessie Cortez

GLASSCOCK INITIATIVES

HUMANITIES: LAND SEA SPACE

Humanitiesandsocialsciencescholarshavelong-studiedland,butrecentcatastrophicchangesthrough global warming have shifted many discussions, raising geopolitical, environmental, and social justice issues.Newcross-disciplinaryworkhasemergedwhichaddressesdiversetopicssuchaswaterandfood insecurity, energy cultures, coastal and island communities, the Anthropocene, deep time, extinctions, and ecological loss. Literature and the arts are motivating creative and imaginative work which explores nature-society interactions. The critical methods of the humanities, in conversation with the social and natural sciences, are needed to properly address such topics. This initiative provides scope for innovative research across the environmental humanities, marine humanities, geohumanities, planetary humanities, energy humanities, health humanities, and public humanities. As reflected by the earth’s systems and ecologies, the triple themes of Land Sea Space are approached individually but also asinterconnected.

EVENTS

Plants, People, and the Humanities (Fall 2021)

This series of events explored research in the humanities and other disciplines concerning the relationship between people and plants. The series was hosted by the Glasscock Center’s Humanities: Land Sea Space (HLSS) initiative; during 2021-2022, LAND features as our main theme and, through it, we explored the deep, foundational role that

plants play in the ecosystems that support life on Earth. These events highlighted the variety of humanplant relationships—from individual relationships like those experienced in a garden, to broad, societal relationships and dependencies on land like agriculture and forestry—and how these relationships are expressed through different worldviews and contexts. These events were free and open to the public.

Humanities & Science Exchanges: Human Plant Relationships | Chair: Dr. Emily Brady October21,2021

LeachTeachingGardensPavilion|TexasA&MCampus

The aim of the Humanities and Science Exchange series is to encourage connection and collaboration between the humanistic and scientific disciplines. Theseeventsinvitescholarstoengagewiththesame topic - from their own fields or interdisciplinary perspectives - in the spirit of exchanging ideas and openinguptoavarietyofapproaches.

Allison Hopkins, AssistantProfessor|Anthropology Kenneth R. Hurst, AssistantProfessor|Landscape ArchitectureandUrbanPlanning

Exploring People-Plant Relationships in the Arts and Philosophy | Chair: Emily Brady

November5,2021

This webinar featured talks and discussion by artists and philosophers exploring peopleplantrelationshipsingardensandtherurallandscape.

“EngagingwiththePlantRealm” Isis Brook |CrossfieldsInstitute

“AncientboglandsandtheIrishpeatindustry:DoesCultureMitigate Ecocide?” Reiko Goto and Tim Collins |Collins&GotoStudio

Marcello Di Paola,Respondent|UniversityofPalermo

Fall 2021 Virtual Discussion Group: Plants, People, and the Humanities

October-December2021

Toaccompanythiseventseries,theHLSSdiscussiongroupreadchaptersfromRobinWall Kimmerer’sbook: BraidingSweetgrass:IndigenousWisdom,ScientificKnowledgeandthe

TeachingsofPlants (2013)andorganizedafieldtriptotheS.M.TracyHerbariumatTexas A&MUniversityinthespring.

ThiseventwasrecordedandcanbeviewedontheGlasscockCenter'swebsite.

Isis Brook Marcello Di Paola Reiko Goto and Tim Collins

Photo courtesy of S.M. Tracy Herbarium website

SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK

HUMANITIES BOOK PRIZE

FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP 22 ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE

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 '59andhiswifeSusanneM.Glasscock,forwhomtheprizeisnownamed.Nominatedbooksare informed by research and expertise, yet are concerned with an appeal to a wider than academicaudience.IncelebrationofthePrize,weholdannualeventsincludingabookbrunch, thePrize-winningauthor'slecture,andanassociatedcommunityevent.

This year's prize was presented to MacArthur Fellow and theJamesWeldonJohnsonProfessorofMedia,Culture,and Communication at New York University, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood for her book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020). On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, Dr. Fleetwood joined the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) for a community conversation facilitated by Dr. Troy Harden. Dr. Fleetwood also delivered a public lecture and Q&A at the Memorial Student Center followed by the award presentation at the conclusionofthelecture.

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration highlights artists who are currently and formerly incarcerated and is based on interviews, prison visits, and the experience of families of the incarcerated. Despite the brutal dynamics of prison life creating isolationanddepravity,artistsnonethelessasserttheir humanity through their drive to create art out of ordinary objects with meager supplies in unimaginable conditions.Throughart,theimprisonedhaveapolitical voice. Marking Time captures the contemporary art that testifies to the racial injustices that underpin the Americanpenalsystem.

22ndBookPrize

Troy Harden, Emily Brady, and Nicole Fleetwood and family

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,andthewiderworldbeyondtheacademy.

The Glasscock Center is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, as well as the National Humanities Center. We participate in the CHCI-ACLS Fellowship ResidenciesPartnership,whichprovidesaresidencyopportunityatTAMUforACLSFellows.

The mission of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, is to foster multidisciplinary research and publications that employ computational methods in the study of literature, history, and culture. Through software creation, project development, education, and the HVS, CoDHR strives to grasp andremainatthecuttingedgeofresearchintheeraofmassdigitization. The Glasscock Center collaborates on workshops and other events with the Center of DigitalHumanitiesResearch,directedbyDr.LauraMandell.

Brazos Valley Reads (BVR) is a community effort organized by Texas A&M University’s department of English. The program was started in 2005 to encourage bridge-building between TAMU students and faculty, and the Brazos Valley community at large. For the past 13 years, BVR has invited internationally recognized authors, including Geraldine Brooks, Ernest Gaines, Sandra Cisneros, Tim O’Brien, Sherman Alexie, Maxine Hong Kingston, Julia Alvarez, Jennifer Clement, Joy Castro, Colson Whitehead, and ElizabethAcevedo.

The Glasscock Center normally provides major co-sponsorship of BVRevents.

The Folger Institute is a center for research at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Glasscock Center supports Texas A&M’s participation as one of 45 members of the Folger Institute’s Consortium. The Institute offers undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in early modern humanities new communities of scholarly practice, guided access to the Folger’s world class special collections, and innovative opportunities to disseminate research to a variety of audiences, both scholarly and public.

Over the last 6 years, faculty and students at TAMU have received funding from the FolgerInstitutetoparticipateinseminars,symposia,andworkshops.

The mission of Humanities Texas is educational excellence. Through programs that improve the quality of classroom teaching, support libraries and museums, and create opportunitiesforlifelonglearning,theyadvanceeducationthroughoutthestate.

The Glasscock Center has partnered with Humanities Texas on several events over the years. Most recently, we collaborated with TAMU’s Veterans Resource & Support Center to bring Humanities Texas’s Veterans’ Voices program to campus through a seriesofdiscussionsheldinApril2019.

Previous collaborations include: “Pivotal U.S. Elections: American Democracy at Issue” (2016),“TheTwoWorldWars”(2017)

The “LAUNCH” office is a collaboration of six teams that work together supporting students, faculty, and staff across the Texas A&M University System. Through community building, high-impact practices, personal and professional development opportunities, and the recognition of excellence, LAUNCH encourages all Aggies to expandtheirminds,takeonchallenges,daretodream,andgetinvolved.

The Glasscock Center collaborates with LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research on the GlasscockUndergraduateSummerScholarsprogram

FACULTY AND GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM SERIES

TheGlasscockCenterhostsaweeklycolloquiumseriesforourfellows.Thecolloquiaoffer faculty and graduate students an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. The colloquium series is comprised of Glasscock Faculty Residential Fellows, Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows, and Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows for the current academic year, as well as the affiliated ACES Fellows. 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 beginswiththepresenter'sshort(10-15minute)expositionoftheproject,afterwhichthe floor is open for comments and queries. The format is designed to be informal, conversational,andinterdisciplinary. The colloquia schedule follows.

FALL 2021

Olga Dror

Professor,History

"NormalizingHoChiMinh:Ideological Demands,PopularAppeal,andAFreeMarket EconomyintheVietnameseMovieIndustry (1990-2020)”"

ArCasia James-Gallaway

AssistantProfessor,Teaching,Learning,and Culture

"'I’mBlack,andICanDoThis:’Black CheerleadersandHomecomingQueens, Femininity,andSchoolDesegregationin 1970sTexas"

Brian Linn

Professor,History

"RealSoldiering:TheU.S.ArmyBetweenits Wars"

Robert Duran

AssociateProfessor,Sociology

"NoJustice,NoPeace:PoliceShootingsas LegalizedViolence"

Daniel Conway

Professor,Philosophy

"FirstContact:Preventingthe NormalizationofGenocide"

Tianna Uchacz

AssistantProfessor,Visualization "ReadingBetweentheLines:Ornament PrintsandtheTacitKnow-Howof MaterialTranslation"

Michael Collins

AssociateProfessor,English "PoetryandthePrisonIndustrial Complex"

Patton Small

M.A.Candidate,PerformanceStudies "BeingandBody"

SPRING 2022

Kristy Pathakis

VisitingAssistantProfessor,PoliticalScience

"WhoBelongs?Howpoliticalbelonging uncertaintystiflesthepoliticalvoicesof minoritiesinAmerica"

Connie Barroso-Garcia

VisitingAssistantProfessor,Educational Psychology

"InvestigatingtheRoleofInterpretation BiasesonAnxietyinaMath-Specific Context"

Denise Meda Calderon

Ph.D.Candidate,Philosophy

"AltarSpacesamongtheLivingandDead: ChicanxPracticesofSpiritualand CommunityTransformations"

Joowon Yi

Ph.D.candidate,PoliticalScience

"OnceaSlave?TheSlaveTradeandMilitary FormationunderColonialism"

Cinthya Salazar

AssistantProfessor,Educational Administration&HumanResource Development

"ResearchCollectivesWith,For,andBy UndocumentedScholars:CreatingSpacesfor Revelation,Validation,Resistance, Empowerment,andLiberationinHigher Education"

Martin Regan

AssociateProfessor,PerformanceStudies

"NavigatingthePast,Embracingthe Present:Cross-CulturalJapanese CompositionalHybridityinTheoryand Practice"

Martin Peterson Professor,Philosophy

"AristotleandtheVirtues:Howshouldwe understandthedoctrineofthemean?”

Jesse O'Rear

VisitingAssistantProfessor,Performance Studies

"EmbodiedKnowledge,LGBTQ+Students, andKinestheticAllyshiponCampus"

FACULTY GRANTS

Grant Title

Faculty Archive and Fieldwork Grant

Faculty Research Fellowship

Internal Faculty Residential Fellowship

Publication Support Grant Summer Research Fellowship *

Three-Year Seminar

Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program (Faculty Directors)

* These grants support graduate students to assist with faculty research over the summer

** $15,000 from LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research

GRADUATE GRANTS

UNDERGRADUATE GRANTS

OPEN TO ALL GRANTS

Co-Sponsorship Grant Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant

INTERNAL FACULTY RESIDENTIAL FELLOWS

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 significantimpactinthecandidate'scareerfield.

Michael Collins, English "Povertyandthe PrisonIndustrial Complex"

Daniel Conway, Philosophy

"Preventingthe Normalizationof Genocide:Lessonsfrom ScienceFiction"

Robert Duran, Sociology

"NoJustice,NoPeace: PoliceShootingsas LegalizedViolence"

Brian Linn, History

"TheSoldier’sStoryin theAftermathof War"

"MyGlasscockfellowshipallowedmetofinishabookmanuscript and two articles. I also had the chance to learn of the fascinating workbymycolleaguesinotherdisciplines.Itwasanopportunity togrowbothprofessionallyandintellectually."

- Brian Linn

"[I]tishardtoimaginethatIwouldhaveaccomplishedatenthof whatIdidwithoutthefellowship."

- Michael Collins

FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS

These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding research that could not beaccomplishedotherwiseinordertocompleteabookproject,majorarticleorseries 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 careerandfield.

Leonardo Cardoso, Performance Studies

“COVID-19inBrazil:A ReportonPresident Bolsonaro’sResponse tothePandemic”

Cynthia Salazar, Educational Administration & Human Resources Development

“UndocuAggiesMatter: CultivatingInclusiveand ValidatingCampus EnvironmentstoFoster theirCollegeSuccess”

Martin Peterson, Philosophy

“TheGeometryof VirtuesandRights”

Tianna Uchacz, Vizualization

“Ornament:Design: Translation”

Martin Regan, Performance Studies

“ResistingtheExotic, ResistingDifference: AnAlternativeModel forCross-Cultural ApproachestoMusic Composition”

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds up to ten Graduate ResearchFellowshipsat$2,000each.Theoutcomeshouldbeadissertationorathesis, or a significant portion thereof. These students make up the community of graduate scholarspopulatingtheGraduateColloquiumSeries.Thestudentsusedthecolloquium asatooltoimprovetheirownwritingandprojectsandhelpeachothertoimprovethe qualityoftheworkbeingproducedasagroup.

Denise Meda Calderon, Philosophy

"AltarSpacesAmongtheLivingandDead:A PhilosophicalExplorationofSpiritualand CommunityTransformations"

Joseph Patton Small, PerformanceStudies

"Body,BeingandTime"

Joowon Yi, PoliticalScience

"Cuba'sProtestantChurchesLeadCrusade AgainstGayMarriage"

- Denise Meda Calderon

"The Glasscock...Fellowship has supported significant advancement in various aspects of my academic career, namely through research, presentations and networking, as well as publishableworkanddissertationwriting."

SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWS

Inordertoprovidemoreresearchsupportgivencontinuingeffectsonresearchactivities from the pandemic, the Glasscock Center offered a new funding opportunity to support both faculty and graduate students in affiliated departments. These grants were available to faculty for the purpose of hiring a graduate student to assist with research during the summer of 2022. The grant provided funds to pay the graduate student for work as a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GAR) during the 3 summer months. In addition,weprovidedfundstocoverthe6hoursoftuitionandfeesforwhichGARsmust be enrolled. The purpose of the grant was to support faculty and graduate research from withintheTexasA&Mcommunity.

Johanna Dunaway, Associate Professor Political Science

Spencer Goidel, Ph.D. candidate Political Science

Sergio Lemus, Assistant Professor Anthropology

Aigul Seralinova, Ph.D. candidate Anthropology

Lu Tang, Associate Professor Communication

Jinxu Li, Ph.D. candidate Communication

AFFILIATED FELLOWS

Affiliated Fellows are those whose fellowships originate outside of the Glasscock Center but are incorporated into our programming and fellows' cohort. They participateinthescholarlycommunityoftheCenter.

ConnieBarrosoGarcia, EducationalPsychology

ACESFellow

JocelynFrelier, InternationalStudies

ACESFellow

ArCasiaJames-Gallaway, Teaching,Learning,and Culture

ACESFellow

JesseO'Rear, PerformanceStudies

ACESFellow

KristyPathakis, PoliticalScience

ACESFellow

CinthyaSalazar, EducationalAdministration andHumanResources Development

ACESFellow

CELEBRATION OF BOOKS

The Glasscock Center is delighted to share recent book publications by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and the Center’s affiliated departments. Congratulations to these scholarsontheirachievement!

Emily Johansen, English PublicationGrantRecipient,Spring2021

Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and the Neoliberal Contemporary (Bloomsbury Academic,2020)

Claire Katz, Philosophy GlasscockCenterGrantRecipient Philosophy Camps for Youth (Big Ideas for Young Thinkers) (Rowman&Littlefield, 2021)

Felipe Hinojosa, History FacultyResearchFellowshipRecipient, Spring2018

Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (UniversityofTexasPress, 2021)

Sonia Hernandez, History PublicationGrantRecipient,Spring2021

For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (UniversityofIllinoisPress, 2021)

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 analysis, and guided in the development of critical thinking, independent learning, and communication 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. Studentsarerequiredtoattendwritingworkshopscreatedespeciallyforthisprogramthrough 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 phaseoftheprojectaftereachoftheWritingCenterworkshops.TheGlasscockCenterdirects thisprogram,inpartnershipwithLAUNCH:UndergraduateResearchandtheWritingCenter.

"The Cultural Politics of International Development"

Faculty Director: DinahHannaford,InternationalStudies

Undergraduate Scholars: MyrandaCampanella|Major:InternationalStudies

JoseSolis|Major:InternationalStudies

In this course, we explored the field of international development. We examined some key questions: what are development and underdevelopment? What is the “third” world, and how was it made? In addition to exploring the historical, political and racial context of the developmentindustry,weexaminedspecificdevelopmentinterventionsandinvestigatedtheir impacts from an intersectional perspective. Students learned to think critically about the aid industry, developing new understandings about colonial legacies and contemporary global hierarchies of power. In developing their own individual research topics, students developed their global expertise, sharpened critical thinking skills, and honed their ability to write persuasively.

SUMMER SCHOLARS PROGRAM

"Transnational and Intersectional Approaches to #MeToo Movement"

Faculty Director: ChaitanyaLakkimsetti,Sociology

Undergraduate Scholars:

TanviDeshpande|Major:Psychology

MarlaGuerra|Major:History

AbigailJablon|Major:PoliticalScience

The#MeToomovementgainedpopularityasahashtagandasocialmovementin2017andhas resultedinunprecedentedconversationonsexualviolenceintheworkplace.Itspopularityand uptick globally, raises some important questions for feminist scholarship and practice. What concrete (socio, cultural and legal) changes has this movement resulted in? Who does a movement focused on workplace sexual violence include, and, who does it exclude? How does the #MeToo movement shape conversations around sexual violence in different national and local contexts? Does this movement propel new frames and imaginations of gender equality and gender justice? We examined these questions as we engaged with different national contextsincludingU.S,India,Bangladesh,Sweden,ChinaandArgentina.

In addition to offering substantive engagement with intersectional and transnational feminist frameworks, this course familiarized students with feminist social science methods, so as to better equip students to design and undertake empirical research in areas of sexual violence andtransnationalfeministsocialmovements.

"Decolonial Feminism as a Critical Methodology"

Faculty Director: OmarRivera,Philosophy

Undergraduate Scholars:

MariaBenavides|Major:History

ValeriCangelosi|Major:UniversityStudies

KateGirvin|Major:Philosophy

SarahKelly|Major:Economics

MaríaLugones’(1944-2020)“decolonialfeminism”opensanewpathfortheanalysisofpower relations (including dynamics of both oppression and resistance) within colonial and postcolonialcontexts.ThiscoursewasdedicatedtothestudyofLugones’centraltextsonthis groundbreakingfeministapproach,aswellasofcommentariesonit.Thecoursealsoincludeda detailedstudyofLugones’ownsourcesinfieldssuchasanthropologyandarthistory.

DecolonialFeminismbeginswiththeinsightthatgenderasasocialcategoryofdifferenceisa colonial imposition. This has two implications. First, colonized peoples, being deemed nonhuman, are also treated as genderless, so that basic heterosexual social determinants and senses of value are not applicable to them. Second, the concept of gender continues to direct anthropological analyses, leading to critical feminist projects that repress socialities that belongtothecolonized.Attendingtothesetwoimplicationsenablesresearchintoalternative non-Western and non-heterosexual socialities alive in postcolonial contexts, as well as possibilitiesofresistancethatarisefromthem.

SUMMER SCHOLARS PROGRAM

FALL PRESENTATIONS

GENDER, POWER STRUCTURES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE

The scholars presented their thesis proposals virtually on August 31, 2021 under this central theme.

"This program allowed me to differentiate myself from my fellow Liberal Arts students. I've greatly improved in my ability to schedule long-term projects... the ability to carry out one idea for30+pagestakespractice,andI'vecertainlyreceivedalotofpracticeinthatnow."

- Sarah Kelly,

1st Place Award Recipient of TAMU Student Research

Economics

Week 2022

“My experience in the UGSS program is invaluable and has ultimately molded me into a more articulate writer and editor. I learned that the quest for knowledge is both invigorating and rewarding,aslearningmoreabouttheoverarchingsystemsintheUnitedStatesprovidesmewith asenseofurgencyforsocialchange,justice,andreform...Thisprogramgavememoreconfidence to pursue a career in the legal field and I look forward to building upon the skills of time management,communication,criticalthinking,andanalysisinlawschool."

- Kate Girvin, Philosophy

Presentation by Valeri Cangelosi

Presentation by Abigail Jablon

Presentation by Myranda Campanella

UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER SCHOLARS: THEN AND NOW

HELL OR HIGH SEAS

StephenO’Shea(TAMUclassof2013)isaformerGlasscockSummerScholarandEnglish major. During the pilot year of the Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars program, O’Shea developed a project on veterans' narratives with his faculty director, Dr. Marian Eide. In the years since, O’Shea has been working on a documentary about veterans and theirstories.

HELL OR HIGH SEAS follows U.S. Navy veteran Taylor Grieger and writer Stephen O’Shea as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime — sailing around Cape Horn, the world’s most treacherous ocean waters. The documentary is a moving portrait of a veteran using his own painful journey with PTSD to find healing for himself and pave a smoother path for veterans returning to civilian life. From director Glenn Holsten, producer Chayne Gregg, and executive producer Robert Irvine, HELL OR HIGH SEAS is anadventurefilmwithadeep,universalmessageaboutperseveranceandhope.

Hell or High Seas premiered in Bryan, Texas at the Premiere Cinema on Friday, October 1andSaturday,October2,2021.

Tolearnmore,visit hellorhighseas.com.

THREE-YEAR SEMINAR

Organized and led by faculty from departments in the College of Liberal Arts and programs affiliated with the Glasscock Center, these seminars provide a forum for a wide variety of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the humanities and social science disciplinestopresentanddiscussresearchinprogress,invitespeakers,andhostsymposia.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 may include but are not limited to: edited volumes, a series of articles, a database, or other project that makes a major impact in the humanities. Grants of $3,000 are provided each of the three years that theseminarsareinexistence.

"#MeToo and the Transnational Politics of Social Media Feminism" (2019-2022)

Organizedby Vanita Reddy, English & Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology

#MeTooisnotamovementwhoseuptakeoutsidetheUSsimplyreplicatesUS-basedmodelsof gender justice. It is one that broadens the creative and political ways in which we think about violence, gender norms, patriarchies, and feminism. #MeToo and the Transnational Politics of Social Media Feminism convenes interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and activists from within and outside TAMU to examine the limitations and possibilities of #MeToo as a transnational feminist movement for gender justice. Participants examine the public uptake of the media hashtag across different national sites since it went viral in 2016. They research and discuss the real-time impact of #MeToo on public policy, state elections, workplace relations, media institutions, youth cultures, university campuses, and other social movements, while also attendingtothefeministofcolor/third-worldfeministgenealogiesfromwhichitemerged.

The Center congratulates Drs. Reddy and Lakkimsetti on their recent publication, #MeToo and TransnationalGenderJustice (2021) in Feminist Formations, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishing groundbreaking work by scholars, activists, and practitioners in feminist, gender,andsexualitystudiessupportedbyJohnsHopkinsUniversityPress.

Vanita Reddy Chaitanya Lakkimsetti

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 broadlytotheintellectualcommunity.

"Collecting and Its Relation to a Broad Academic Context: A&M, Case in Point"

Lee Fontanella|WorcesterPolytechnicInstitute

September30,2021

OrganizedbyFrancescaMarini,UniversityLibraries

"Shakuhachi Temples and their Music in Edo Period Japan - A case study of Rōgen-ji Temple"

Christopher Blasdel |UniversityofHawai'i,Manoa

October20,2021

OrganizedbyMartinRegan,PerformanceStudies

"Reading Narrative in Indigenous Rock Art in Paint Rock, TX"

Jeremy Elliot |AbileneChristianUniversity

February28,2022

OrganizedbyHannahBowling,English

NEH REGIONAL GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

January28,2022

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research hosted a regional grant-writing workshop with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This workshop, presented as a virtual webinar, featured Dr. Judith Adkins, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the NEH. Dr. Adkins provided information about the NEH and its programs – especially those of interest to college and university faculty such as Fellowships and Summer Stipends – and also shared tips and suggestions for creating a competitive application.AQ&Afollowedtheworkshop.

This workshop was of particular interest to faculty within the humanities and social sciences. Faculty in other fields – such as the sciences, law, medicine, and engineering – who may have an interdisciplinary focus related to the humanities or social sciences were encouraged to attendaswell.

Dr. Emily Brady (Director, Glasscock Center) and Dr. Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Associate DeanforResearch,CollegeofLiberalArts)co-chairedtheworkshop.

Featured from top to bottom: Emily Brady and Maria Escobar-Lemmon

Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Activities

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. 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 creatinglearningthroughactivitiesthatfostermulticulturalenrichment.Thegrant is open to applicants across the university, including undergraduate student organizations.

"Homeward to My Heritage - Ancestry Project Speech Competition"

March 23, 2022

Organized by Ashley Dean, Memorial Student Center

"The

April 1, 2022

Organized by Jesse O'Rear, Performance Studies

"Advocacy: Through Your Own Lens"

April 2, 2022

Organized by Michelle Mares, Memorial Student Center

Coming Out Monologues"

April 7, 2022

Organized by Rachel Lim, History

"Transnational Struggles against Deportation, Forced Return, and Immobility"

April 12, 2022

Organized by Nancy Plankey-Videla, Sociology

"Communicating Diversity Student Conference"

May 7, 2022

Organized by Macy Dunklin, Communication

“The TAMU community gained a glimpse of what life is like for undocumented individuals, and how, these individuals are agents and fight for change..... But even beyond the funds, the support of the Glasscock Center, by being named as a cosponsor, provided material and moral support for diversity and equity on this campus.”

Nancy Plankey-Videla, Sociology and Latino/a and Mexican American Studies Recipient of Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant

"Seadrift: Documentary Film Screening and Director Q&A"

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 andresearchinthehumanities.

"Given Time in Three Times: 1978-79, 1991, 2021"

November11-12,2021(ZoomWebinarandAcademicBuilding)

OrganizedbyAdamRosenthal,InternationalStudiesandMichaelPortal,Philosophy

"Exploring the Margins of History"

February18-19,2022(ZoomWebinarandGlasscockBuilding)

OrganizedbyJenniferWells,History

"The Second Wave: Revolutionary Women of Color"

March25-25,2022(AnnenbergPresidentialCenterandTheGeorgeHotel)

OrganizedbyElizabethCobbs,History

"Animals and the American Civil War"

April8,2022(GlasscockBuilding)

OrganizedbyLorienFoote,History

April15-17,2022(YMCABuilding)

OrganizedbyVictoriaGreen,Philosophy

April22,2022(ZoomWebinarandGlasscockBuilding)

OrganizedbyJunLei,InternationalStudies

"Cultural-Moral Governance, Violence, and Masculinities: A Transcultural Perspective"

"2022 Texas A&M University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference"

“It is rare for students to meet women of color who made history--as these three [pioneers] did. Not only did we get attendees from across campus who were eager to meet them, but student contingents also came from Baylor, Rice, and University of Houston... The Glasscock funds helped elevate the conference to a national level of importance. ”

Elizabeth

Cobbs, History

Exploring the Margins of History Conference

Animals and the American Civil War Symposium

The Second Wave Conference

Co-Sponsored Activities

The Glasscock Center supports the humanities at Texas A&M University by cosponsoring public lectures, performances with a humanities research component, and scholarlypresentationsbyvisitorsfromoutsidetheuniversity.

"ReproductiveRightsandGender-BasedViolence"

October20,2021

OrganizedbyVanitaReddy,EnglishandChaitanyaLakkimsetti,Sociology

"MissingandMurdered IndigenousPeople: WhatYouShouldKnowand WhatYouCanDo"

March2,2022

OrganizedbyAngelaHudson,History

"StandinginSolidarityAgainstAnti-AAPIRacism"

March9-10,2022

OrganizedbySoyeonKim,English

BUTTRILL 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 ethical questions of significance to the Texas A&M community. The Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics supports annual lectures, roundtables, special events, and course activities. The Buttrill Ethics Grant, introduced in 2007-2008, has now become an annual award to faculty for ethicsrelateddevelopmentinresearchandteaching.

"Can't Beat the Heat: Extreme Temperatures and the Lack of Air Conditioning in Texas Prisons" | September 8 - 9, 2021

September 8-9 | Mock Cell & Poster Exhibit | Rudder Plaza

September 9 | Panel Discussion |Rudder Tower

Featured Speakers

Carlee Purdum | Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center

Amite Dominic | Texas Prisons Community Advocates

Zulema Alvarez | Breaking Chains & Staying Connected; formerly incarcerated

Additional event sponsors: Race and Ethnic Studies Institute; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Department of Sociology; College of Architecture

RESEARCH LUNCH SERIES

The Glasscock Research Lunch Series is an occasional series which provides the opportunityforstudents,faculty,researchgroups,andotherstogatherinconversation aboutvarioushumanities-relatedtopicsandpromotehumanities-orientedresearch.

“Because Technology” and Other Legal Imaginaries of COVID-19

TheCovid-19pandemicprovidedanopportunitytoexaminehowamedicalemergency–so different in kind from the national security emergencies we are accustomed to thinkingaboutinthispolicyissuearea–affectedinformationpolicyasbroadlydefined. The talk provided an overview of information policy as legal epidemiology, examined the legal imaginaries of the pandemic as they appeared in the first five months, and positioned those imaginaries relative to the longer trajectories of the evolution of informationpolicy.Itconcludedbylookingattherelationshipbetweentheimaginaries andpolicyasitstandstoday,“thecontraileffect.”

Dr.SandraBraman,Professor,Communication TylerChampine,PhDcandidate,Communication

Personal Experience Working for the ADVANCE COVID-19 Research Project

For university faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and Ph.D. students, the COVID-19 epidemic forced a quick shift of work circumstances and work-life balance. Within a week,Ph.D.studentswereworkingfromhomeandinstructingremotely,andformany, their research plans were severely disrupted. The ADVANCE COVID-19 project considersavarietyoftopicsinordertobetterunderstandhowCOVID-19affectswork conditions and work-life balance for Texas A&M scholars. The project demonstrates how gender, race/ethnicity, caregiver status, discipline, and citizenship status are all intersecting layers of vulnerability for Ph.D. students during the pandemic. In this presentation, Aigul Seralinova, a fourth-year cultural anthropology Ph.D. student, shared her experience working as a research assistant on this project. She worked on two important tasks along with other team members: interviewing participants and codingtranscripts.

Dr.CynthiaWerner,DirectorofADVANCE,Professor,Anthropology AigulSeralinova,PhDCandidate,Anthropology

Users Pay? Hunting, Guns and the Shifting Political Economy of Conservation

ThePittman-RobertsonActof1937establishedtheallocationofataxonfirearmsand ammunition, which is put into a fund managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for hunter education and conservation activities. These funds are a substantial portionoftheoverallexpendituresbyFWS,andalargeportionaredistributedtostate wildlife agencies for conservation and restoration programs. In recent years, PittmanRobertson funds have increased substantially due to increasing gun production and sales in the United States. In 2020 alone, FWS distributed $750 million collected throughtheseexcisetaxestostatefishandgameagencies.Thissourceofrevenuehas begun to exceed money generated from hunting licenses in many states. As revenue from excise taxes on guns plays an outsized role in wildlife management, this raises questionsabouttheethicsandsustainabilityoftherelationshipbetweenconservation, hunting, and guns. Lobbyists representing gun producers and sport shooting organizations have increasingly supported efforts to “modernize” the PittmanRobertson Act to both expand the tax base and allow for wider uses of funds which woulddirectlysupporttheexpansionofshootingsports.Weexamineddocumentsfrom an array of conservation, hunting, sport shooting, and gun rights organizations to understand the shifting discourse surrounding guns and conservation and discern how guns—notjusthunting—shapeenvironmentalpolitics.Thistalkhighlightedtheshifting sources of revenue for wildlife agencies and presented the results of our discourse analysis.Finally,wediscussedtheimplicationsforconservationpolicy.

Dr.JohnPatrickCasellasConnors,AssistantProfessor,Geography ElizabethA.Carlino,PhDCandidate,Geography

ElizabethCarlinoandJohnPatrickCasellasConnors

HUMANITIES WORKING GROUPS

The Glasscock Center encourages innovative interdisciplinary research and scholarship by providing up to $1,500 in annually renewable support to selfconstituted groups of faculty and students engaged in exploration of thematicallyrelatedresearchquestionsinthehumanities.Participantssharethegoalofstimulating intellectual exchange through discussion, writing, film screenings, work-in-progress presentations,fieldtrips,readingandotheractivitiesthatfurthertheirinquiriesinto commonscholarlyconcerns.The2021-22supportedgroupsandtheirconvenorsare listedbelow.

Caribbean and Atlantic Studies

EvanHaefeli,History

Cognoscenti

JosephOrr,Psychology

Community Food Security and Food Justice

SarahN.Gatson,Sociology

Critical Childhood Studies

CharlesCarlson,PublicPartnershipand Outreach

DavidAnderson,Philosophy

Early Modern Studies

KevinO’Sullivan,UniversityLibraries

DorothyTodd,English

Indigenous Studies

AngelaPulleyHudson,History

Jewish Studies

ClaireKatz,PhilosophyandWomen’sand GenderStudies

Language Matters

MaríaIreneMoyna,HispanicStudies

Latinx Cultural Production

JesúsRivera,HispanicStudies

Latinx Studies

MariaValentinaAduenRamirez, Communication

Law and Society

KatherineUnterman,History

Literacy Studies

R.MalateshaJoshi,Teaching,Learningand Culture

Medieval Studies

KathyTorabi,English

NoahPeterson,English

New Modern British Studies

ShawnaRoss,English

HyungjungKim,English

Science and Technology

JonathanCoopersmith,History

MartinPeterson,Philosophy

Science Fiction Studies

JeremyBrett,UniversityLibraries

FrancescaMarini,UniversityLibraries

ApostolosVasilakis,English

Social, Cultural, and Political Theory

DanielConway,Philosophy

FiroozJafari,Philosophy

South Asia Studies

JyotsnaVaid,Psychology

GiseleCardosodeLemos,Sociology

War, Violence and Society

AdamSeipp,History

KaitlynRoss,History

OTHER GRANTS

Archive and Fieldwork Grant

This grant supports travel to archives or to undertake fieldwork in order to further humanities and humanistic social sciences research. Each year, up to two grants of $1,500 each are awarded to faculty and two grants of $,1000 are awarded to graduate students. Projects are chosen on the basis of the significance of the archive visit or fieldwork for successful completion of the research, and on the quality of the project.

FACULTY

Patrick Sullivan, Performance Studies

"TV Sound in the Network Era, 19521984"

Stephen Riegg, History

"Porous Mountains: Transimperial Mobility in Imperial Russia’s Caucasus"

GRADUATESTUDENTS

Haley Burke, Philosophy

“Human Divinity: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Political Ideology”

Megan Crutcher, Anthropology

“Letters of the Diaspora: Jewish Women of 16th-Century Portugal and West Africa in Their Own Worlds”

Jyothis James, Philosophy

“Melanating Aesthetics”

Tanner Olge, History

“The ’45 in 75: Rebellion at the Dawn of Revolution”

Susan Egenolf, English

"Josiah Wedgwood and the Shaping of British Art and Empire"

Karen Cepeda-Rivera, Performance Studies

“The Tente theatre group: Trauma as a creative and collective mobilizer”

Jhommpy Garcia, Hispanic Studies

“The Individual and Border Conflict in Central America: Examining the Case of Belize and Guatemala”

Emma Newman, Anthropology

“Pilot Study: Excavating Necro-rutas: An Ethnographic Pilot Study in Brooks County, Texas”

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,translationcosts,andthelike).

Sarah McNamara, History

Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South

Jocelyn Frelier, InternationalStudies

Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in French, Moroccan and Algeria

Literature of the 21st Century

Heidi Craig, English

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Heather Thakar, Anthropology

Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments

Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Research Award

This award supports research projects in the humanities that are based on the collections oftheCushingMemorialLibraryandArchives.Thecommitteeawardsfundingforuptotwo 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 2021 and presented their research at the CushingGlasscockAwardPresentationslaterthatfall.

Yadira Gamez, English

“ActsofSurvival:CreatingSpaceandDefiningLatinxCultureviaZinesinTexas”

Hai In Jo, English

“ArchivingBeyondEnslavedNarratives:TheoryandPraxisofFeminist Classification”

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