2012-13 Annual Report

2012-2013 Annual Report of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

LIBERAL ARTS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK CENTER FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH

Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

History of the Glasscock Center

305 Glasscock Building Texas A&M University 4214 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4214

Growing from the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical

phone: (979) 845-8328 fax: (979) 458-3681 glasscock@tamu.edu glasscock.tamu.edu

of Texas A&M University in 1999 and received a naming

2012-2013 Staff: Richard J. Golsan, Director, University Distinguished Professor, Department of International Studies

Literary Studies, founded in 1987, the Center for Humanities Research was created by the Board of Regents 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.

Sarah M. Misemer, Associate Director, Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies

Mission of the Glasscock Center

Elsa Escamilla, Administrative Assistant

The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering and

Donna C. Malak, Communications Specialist

celebrating the humanities and humanities research

Hannah Waugh, Program Assistant

among the community of scholars at Texas A&M

Valerie Halsey, Undergraduate Apprentice

University and in the world beyond the academy.

2012-2013 Advisory Committee

The Glasscock Center awards residential fellowships,

Christian Brannstrom, Geography

research fellowships, course development grants, funding

Lynn Burlbaw, Teaching, Learning, and Culture Federica Ciccolella, International Studies Donnalee Dox, Performance Studies

for working groups, publication support, and research matching awards for independent and cross-disciplinary

Marian Eide, English

research in the humanities. Fellows and grant recipients

Elisabeth Ellis, Political Science

are integral to the Center’s ongoing programs and

Kevin Glowacki, Architecture

activities, through their participation in bi-weekly

Tom Green, Anthropology Tazim Jamal, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Sciences Brain Linn, History

coffees, faculty and graduate colloquia, working groups, and seminar series. The Glasscock Center also recognizes

Michael LeBuffe, Philosophy

outstanding scholarship annually with a national book

Les Morey, Psychology

prize, the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize

Maria Irene Moyna, Hispanic Studies

for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, which is accompanied

Harland Prechel, Sociology Randall Sumpter, Communication

by a guest lecture from the recipient and a response from a (inter)nationally recognized scholar in the field. The Mary

2012-2013 Internal Faculty Fellows

Jane and Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics

Daniel Conway, Professor, Philosophy

also supports a roundtable discussions and course grant

Donnalee Dox, Associate Professor, Joseph Oscar Jewell, Associate Professor, Sociology Harland Prechel, Professor, Sociology 2012-2013 Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellows Mark David McGraw, PhD candidate, Hispanic Studies Matthew A. Yokell, PhD candidate, History Vahid Vahdat Zad, PhD candidate, Architecture © 2013 The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

on the investigation of ethical issues coordinated by the Glasscock Center. Finally, the Glasscock Center awards three Brown-Kruse Fellowships to graduate students.

These fellowships are made possible by the generous gift of Maggie and Corey Brown ’92 and of Gayle and Layne Kruse ’73. A primary focus for the Glasscock Center over the next several years will be the development of the “World War II and its Global Legacies” Initiative through guest lectures, seminar series, and faculty, graduate, and undergraduate funding for research opportunities.

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Table of Contents Letter from the Director...................................... 4-5 Glasscock Center Lecture Series...........................6-7 Buttrill Endowed Fund for Ethics............................8

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Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize.......9

he Melbern G. Glasscock

Other Glasscock Center Events..............................10

Center for Humanities

Faculty and Graduate Colloquium Series............. 11

Research is a unit of the College

World War II Initiative...................................... 12-13

of Liberal Arts and is located on

Overview of Grants and Awards...........................14

the third floor of the Glasscock

Internal Faculty Residential Fellows......................15

Building on the Texas A&M

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows......................16

University Campus.

Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellows............................ 17 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows..................18 Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program..........19 Glasscock Scholars Abroad Award........................20 Glasscock Three-Year Seminars.............................21 Other Faculty Grants..............................................22 Other Graduate Student Grants...........................23 Co-sponsored Events....................................... 24-25 Humanities Working Groups........................... 26-27

Photos (L-R): Aggieland Water Tower; Melbern G. Glasscock Building; Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock tABLE OF cONTENTS • 3

From the Director I am delighted to have this opportunity to report on the numerous and wide-ranging activities sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, as well as an important addition to our staff and significant changes to our funding programs. We are confident these developments will enhance the Center’s visibility at the College, University, national, and international levels, while also better serving the needs of our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students.

Let me highlight some of our sponsored and co-sponsored events: In fall 2012 the Glasscock Center launched its two-year-long “World War II and its Global Legacies” Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is not only to explore the history and memory of World War II, but also to examine its seminal role in the development of the concepts of crimes against humanity, genocide, and human rights. In the fall semester, invited speakers included Michael Bess of Vanderbilt University, who gave the Carroll O. Buttrill ‘38 Ethics Lecture on the difficult choices faced by scientists working with technology that can have dangerous consequences for humankind. They also included the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner, who spoke on different perceptions of patriotism in Europe and the United States; Henry Rousso of Yale University, who discussed the 1961 trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann; and Nicolas Werth of the Center for Contemporary History in Paris, who lectured on Stalin and the Soviet Union at War. In the spring of 2013, the Glasscock Center hosted a film festival which featured two recent European films on the Holocaust, The Roundup (La Rafle) and Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern), both shown for the first time in the United States. The Dutch filmmaker Ludi Boeken who directed Saviors in the Night was on hand to discuss the film.

Additionally, Debarati Sanyal of the University of California, Berkeley lectured on the memory of World War II in contemporary North African fiction, and Rebecca Wittmann of the University of Toronto lectured on the trials of former Nazis in Postwar Germany.

To conclude the two-year World War II Initiative, in spring 2014 the Center will host an international conference devoted to Hannah Arendt and her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The conference will take place in January. In April, we welcome Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire (Retired), of Canada, who will discuss his role in saving thousands of lives as the officer in charge of the UN Peace Keeping forces in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in that country.

In addition to events associated with the World War II Initiative, in April 2013 the Glasscock Center was pleased to host the novelist Tim O’Brien, who gave a reading from his novel The Things They Carried. Also in April, the Carroll O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics Roundtable featured a discussion on “Ethics, Athletics, and Academics: Institutions, Coaches, and Players.” Panelists included Lex O. McMillan III, president of Albright College, Jay Smith of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Texas A&M Women’s Softball Coach Jo Evans. The final Glasscock Center event for academic year 2012-2013 was a conference on “The Civil War, its Legacies, and Representations” featuring faculty from Texas A&M as well as other universities nationally.

Thanks to the generosity of the Department of History, in 2012-2013 the Glasscock Center increased its available meeting space such that it can now host larger conferences and professional organization meetings. In November 2012 the Center was pleased to host the annual meeting of the North American Sartre Society and in April 2013, the Center hosted the annual meeting of the Eudora Welty Society.

In September 2012 the Glasscock Center instituted significant changes in its funding programs to increase faculty and student involvement, to expand the intellectual and interdisciplinary scope of Center activities, and to place greater emphasis on academic outcomes. During 2012-2013, the Center funded two new Three-year Seminars.

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These are: Critical Childhood Studies and 1914 and the Making of the 20th Century. The Seminars are funded over a three-year period, at the conclusion of which each will host a conference, launch a website, or publish a volume devoted to the topic of the seminar featuring members of the seminar as well as invited external scholars.

The Glasscock Center also inaugurated the Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship program which funds eight faculty fellows annually to complete research and writing on a major research project. The Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows join five Internal Faculty Residential Fellows in presenting their projects and outcomes in the bi-weekly Faculty Colloquium Series.

In 2012-2013 the Glasscock Center continued to support twenty-two Humanities Working Groups involving faculty and students who meet regularly to discuss a wide range of topics in the humanities. A sampling of the titles of these Working Groups— Queer Studies; South Asia Studies; War, Violence and Society—offers a sense of their scope and diversity. The Glasscock Center also sponsored a Graduate Colloquium Series whose participants included the three recipients of the Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellowships and the ten Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowships.

The Fourteenth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship was awarded to Simon Gikandi of Princeton University, whose book, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that, rather than constituting separate entities in the eighteenth century, the world of politeness, manners and aesthetics, and the world of slavery were surprisingly and inextricably entwined. The Chair of the Book Prize Committee, David William Foster of Arizona State University, also gave a lecture on “Guille and Belinda: A Lesbian Arcadian Romance, a Photobook by Allesandra Sanguinetti.”

The Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars program is currently in its second year of existence (summer 2012 Pilot Program, summer 2013 Official Program) and was conceived as a way to more effectively address the Glasscock Center’s mandate for fostering high-impact undergraduate research experiences. For the past two years, the Glasscock Center has collaborated with Honors and Undergraduate Research (HUR) to fund the program. The Glasscock Center funds up to 10 students, and HUR provides two faculty summer salaries. The Glasscock Center has also provided students with a work space at the Center and their own on-site computers. Three to five students participate in a two-week intensive seminar with a tenured faculty member at the beginning of the ten-week summer session. This session taught by the faculty member immerses students in a field of inquiry in a topic from the humanities from which they develop a research question. The remaining eight weeks are then used to craft a proposal and public presentation that form the basis for a year-long project they will begin in the fall as part of the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program through HUR under the mentorship of the same faculty member. In addition to meeting with faculty during the summer session, the Writing Center has participated in eight weekly sessions by engaging students in writing studios to help with different aspects of the research and writing process.

In spring 2013 we were delighted to welcome Hannah Waugh to the Glasscock Center Staff. Hannah has worked with us for several years as an Undergraduate Apprentice, and in her new role as Program Assistant, Hannah handles all activities related to the World War II Initiative as well as a variety of other administrative tasks.

In conclusion, the ongoing success the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research depends entirely on those individuals— faculty, staff, and students—who generously commit their ideas, energy, and passion to that success. I would like to thank all of these people for making the Glasscock Center an exciting and rewarding place to work.

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

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Glasscock Center

Lecture Series “Memorial Patriotism, Paradoxical Patriotism” Pascal Bruckner | Essayist and novelist

“ Adolf Eichmann, despite his apparent ordinariness was an unusual defendant whose active participation in his own defense deeply influenced the course of [his] trial — an aspect overlooked in the historiography — and partly accounts for its success.” ~ Henry Rousso

Pascal Bruckner is a renowned essayist and novelist whose works have been translated in thirty countries. He presented a public lecture about sacrificial patriotism culminating in 1914, memorial patriotism in the current day, and patriotism in the United States and Europe.

“Eichmann in Jerusalem: No Ordinary Defendant” Henry Rousso | Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP, Paris) and Visiting Professor at Yale University Henry Rousso gave a public lecture based on research made for an exhibition, held in Paris, at the Mémorial de la Shoah, in 2011. According to new documents, it shows how Adolf Eichmann, despite his apparent ordinariness, was an unusual defendant whose active participation in his own defense deeply influenced the course of the trial — an aspect overlooked in the historiography — and partly accounts for its success.

“Soviet Society at War” Nicolas Werth | Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Senior Fellow, Institute of Contemporary History (IHTP), Paris Nicolas Werth was the Spring 2013 Glasscock Visiting Scholar and was in residence at the Glasscock Center for one week to meet with faculty and students and give a public lecture and seminar. Werth gave a public lecture exploring the legacy of World War II in the Soviet culture. He also held a seminar for graduate students on the topic of Stalinism.

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“Holocaust Memory and the War on Terror: The Case of Boualem Sansal” Debarati Sanyal | Associate Professor, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley Debarati Sanyal gave a public lecture contextualizing Boualem Sansal’s novel Le Village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller (2008) within the recent theoretical turn to transcultural memory and assessed its politics within the memory wars in France (between the Shoah, slavery and colonialism), and in light of the “war on terror”. She also addressed American and French debates on repentance, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, in an attempt to situate Sansal’s polemical work within a transnational reflection on terror as well as on the politics and ethics of Holocaust memory today.

“Nazism, Terrorism, and Criminal Justice in Postwar Germany” Rebecca Wittmann | Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto In her lecture, Wittmann examined three very different trials of German history and discussed the contradictions in judicial practices during these trials. She argued that “in Germany’s extraordinary transition from dictatorship to democracy, there have been seismic growing pains, which have included both successful and deeply problematic attempts to overcome the legacy of Nazism.” She proposed that although Nazi trials have changed and evolved, they remain as troubled and unsuccessful as ever in the ongoing project of coping with the past.

“The Civil War, its Legacies, and Representations” Adam Arenson | Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso Lorien Foote | Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas

During a roundtable commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, panelists addressed the following topics: – The global aspects of the Civil War and how transnational texts and events during the Age of Revolutions deeply influenced prominent Americans; – A Western perspective on the Civil War and a challenge to the assumption that the Civil War took place in the eastern U.S.; – The Civil War’s relative absence from American literature and American studies; and – Why novelists tend to use certain structural conventions when writing about the war.

Randall Fuller | Chapman Professor of English, The University of Tulsa Larry Reynolds | Distinguished Professor of English, Texas A&M University The Glasscock Center hosted a roundtable to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A panel of historians and literary scholars challenged existing assumptions about how the Civil War has been represented in American culture.

Photos (L-R): Pascal Bruckner, Debarati Sanyal, Nicolas Werth, Rebecca Wittmann, Civil War Roundtable

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Carrol O. Buttrill ’38

Endowed Fund for Ethics

With the goal of fostering discussion in a field of inquiry he valued, Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 established a fund through which the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research promotes on-going investigations into 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 Curriculum Enhancement Grant, introduced in 2007-2008, has now become an annual award to faculty for ethics-related curriculum development. See page 22 for details.

Buttrill Ethics Lecture “Scientists and their Moral Responsibility for their Inventions: The Cases of Leo Szilard and Bill Joy” Michael Bess | Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University On 3 October 2013, Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, addressed the moral responsibilities of scientist for their inventions. He focused on two specific cases: Leo Szilard, one of the creators of the atomic bomb during World War II, and Bill Joy, a prominent computer scientist who publicly called on his fellow scientists to consider the cost of forging ahead blindly, specifically in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics because they held too great a potential for spinning out of human control, threatening the biosphere itself.

Buttrill Ethics Roundtable “Ethics, Athletics, and Academics: Institutions, Coaches, and Players”

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.

Jo Evans | Head Coach, Softball, Texas A&M University Lex O. McMillan III | President, Albright College Jay M. Smith | John Van Seters Distinguished Term Professor and Associate Chair of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill On 4 April 2013, panelists discussed the ethics of athletics and academics.

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Photos (L-R): Michael Bess, Buttrill Ethics Roundtable

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book submissions received

The fourteenth annual nationally competitive interdisciplinary book prize was awarded to Simon Gikandi for Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011). The Glasscock Book Prize, first awarded in 1999, originated by the Texas A&M Center for Humanities Research, was permanently endowed in December 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock ’59 and his wife Susanne M. Glasscock, for whom the prize is now named.

Humanities Book Prize Lecture “Slavery and Modern Identity” Simon Gikandi | Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University Simon Gikandi was the recipient of the Fourteenth Annual Prize for his book, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011). Gikandi gave a public lecture and accepted the book prize on Wednesday, 27 February 2013. In his lecture, Professor Gikandi focused on slavery and modern identity.

In his book, Simon Gikandi demonstrates that the areas of slavery and the culture of taste – the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics – were surprisingly intertwined. Gikandi looks at Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies through the lens of archival portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries in these regions. He illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery’s impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time.

Outside Reader Lecture “Guille and Belinda: A Lesbian Arcadian Romance, a Photobook by Alessandra Sanguinetti”

© Princeton University Press, 2011. Jacket art: Henry Darnall III, by Justus Englehardt Kuhn, ca. 1710. Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society.

David William Foster | Regents’ Professor of Spanish, and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University David William Foster was the outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee and presented a lecture on Thursday, 28 February 2013. In his lecture, Professor Foster explored how Alessandra Sanguinetti tells the story of a lesbian romance against the stark landscape of the Argentine heartland. Foster explores Sanguinetti’s dossier of photographs titled Las aventuras de Guille y Belinda y el enigmático significado de sus sueños (2007) as a lesbian romance story between Belinda and Guillermina (shortened to the sexually ambiguous Guille).

L-R: Melbern G. Glasscock, Susanne M. Glasscock, Simon Gikandi, Richard J. Golsan, Sarah M. Misemer

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Other

Glasscock Center Events

Glasscock Center Meet and Greet on 5 September 2012. The Meet and Greet provides an opportunity for Glasscock Center faculty fellows, graduate student fellows, and new faculty and staff to interact and become acquainted with the Glasscock Center.

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

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

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F aculty and Graduate

Colloquium Series

Faculty Colloquium Series

GRADUATE Colloquium Series

James Rosenheim | Professor, Department of History “The Financial Records and Memoranda of Edmund Herbert, 1708-1733”

Paul Lee | Department of History “To Join or Not To Join?: Cherokees and Catawbas in the 1758 Fort Duquesne Expedition”

Angela Pulley-Hudson | Assistant Professor, Department of History “‘Real Native Genius’: Okah Tubbee, Laah Ceil, and the Limits of Antebellum Indianness”

Duygu Yenerim | Department of Architecture “The Reflection of Residents’ Cultural and Social Identities on Their Housing Design: Texas Colonias”

Judith Hamera | Professor, Department of Performance Studies “‘Never Can Say Goodbye:’ Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Trouble with Ruins” Federica Ciccolella | Professor, Department of International Studies “When East Meets West: Learning Greek in Venetian Crete” Anne Morey | Associate Professor, Department of English “‘The Gland School:’ Gertrude Atherton and the Two Black Oxen“ Joseph Jewell | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology “Other People’s Children: Social Mothering, Schools, and Racialized Class Boundaries in Late-Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco” Nathan Bracher | Professor, Department of International Studies “Paris Herald Tribune: François Mauriac on Race, War, Religion, and Politics” Harland Prechel | Professor, Department of Sociology “‘Political Capitalism: The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Recession” Daniel Conway | Professor, Department of Philosophy “Frightened by Faith: Kierkegaard’s Modernity” Ruth Larson | Associate Professor, Department of International Studies “‘Of a Monstrous Child:’ Montaigne, Nature and Human Difference” Donnalee Dox | Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies “Visions of an Inner Life” Hoi-eun Kim | Assistant Professor, Department of History “Healing Hands? Reassessing Richard Wunsch, a German Physician to the Korean Court, 1901-05”

Matthew Yokell | Department of History “Teaching the German Empire: Education and Cultural Influence in the German Colony of Qingdao (Tsingtao), 1901-1914” Vahid Vahdat Zad | Department of Architecture “An Occidentalist Image of Modernity: Reimagining the Farangi House in Aminoddowleh’s Travel Memoir” Yeonsik Jung | Department of English “Black Hysteric Melanctha: Race, Sex, and Psychopathology in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives” Jennifer Heth | Department of History “Commemorating Imperialism: TR and the American Museum of Natural History” Claire Cothren | Department of English “Rethinking the ‘Freak Show’: Portrayals of Gender’Deviant’ Children and their African American Caretakers in the 20th Century Southern Gothic Novel” Mark David McGraw | Department of Hispanic Studies “The Universal Quixote: Appropriations of a Literary Icon” Brandy Kelly | Department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences “Picturing Hope: Emergent Adult Women of African Descent and the Transformative Spaces of Hope” David Orta | Department of Sociology “Racial Framing and Ethnically-Based Collective Organizations: Personal Narratives from the Latina/o Fraternity/Sorority Community” Vandhana Ramadurai | Department of Communication “A Humanistic Approach to Understanding Food and Hunger Issues Among Women in an Indian Slum” Brett Lowry | Department of Anthropology “Gimme That Real Old Time Religion: Folk History and the Construction of Neo-Pagan Traditions and Identities in the United States”

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“ World and its

War II

Global Legacies ” Initiative

The “World War II and its Global Legacies” Initiative is a two-year program sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research focusing on World War II, its history and consequences, as well as its global impact on international law, national memory and identity, and the humanities. To that end, the Glasscock Center will host lectures, conferences, workshops and film screenings to help students, faculty, and the general public better understand the events and implications of the conflict.

World War II and its outcomes continue to shape our lives today, particularly through global efforts aimed at recognizing and supporting human rights. Given its past and military traditions, Texas A&M University is an ideal institution to host this initiative, and in the future, to assume a leading, permanent role nationally and internationally in fostering the study and teaching of World War II and its Global Legacies.

Keynote Address by Thomas M. Hatfield “Leadership in War and Peace: Texas A&M in the Life of Earl Rudder” Thomas M. Hatfield | Dean Emeritus and Director, Military History Institute, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin On 26 September 2012, Thomas M. Hatfield addressed a public audience about Earl Rudder’s early life. Hatfield’s biography of James Earl Rudder — Rudder: From Leader to Legend — published by the Texas A&M University Press in 2011, is a study in the development and manifestation of human character. The book traces Rudder from childhood through his extraordinary career as a renowned citizensoldier, ending with his death in 1970 while president of Texas A&M University. In his lecture, Hatfield described how Rudder’s talents and tendencies contributed to his successes in the major challenges of his life: the ordeal of war, the disorder and corruption of the Texas General Land Office, and the challenges of Texas A&M at the time.

His associates would say they “knew of no one who had worn the mantles of leadership and of humility so well at the same time;” and that “He was fair-minded and honorable. He could be trusted and we all believed in him. He was a man you would die for.” (Hatfield).

Photos from the private reception for the Keynote Address by Thomas M. Hatfield.

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Film Festival featuring Two Films on the Holocaust On 20 March 2013, the Glasscock Center held a public film screening of two recent films on the Holocaust.

The director of Saviors in the Night Ludi Boeken held a Q&A session following the screening of the film. French journalist Annette Levy-Willard and Glasscock Center director Richard J. Golsan held a Q&A session following the screening of La Rafle. © Menemsha Films

Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern) Directed by Ludi Boeken Based on the Best-selling Memoir Retter in der Nacht

by Marga Spiegel Saviors in the Night (2011) is based on the best-selling memoirs of Holocaust survivor, Marga Spiegel. In 1965 Spiegel published a narrative of her memories of the courageous farmers in Münsterland, Germany who hid Spiegel and her family during Nazi occupation from 1943-1945. The Aschoff family provided protection and risked everything to protect their neighbors from deportation and certain death. Saviors in the Night honors these silent heroes by telling their story of survival and humanity.

© Menemsha Films

World War II and its outcomes continue to shape our lives today, particularly through global efforts aimed at recognizing and supporting human rights.

La Rafle (The Roundup) Written and Directed by Rose Bosch Starring Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, and Raphäelle Agogué Produced by Ilan Goldman In the summer of 1942, Hitler ordered the French government to round up its Jews to be sent to the extermination camps. La Rafle is a true retelling the events of the 1942 “Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup,” starring Jean Reno and Mélanie Laurent. This film depicts Jewish families living their lives as best they can in Paris amidst the rumors that they will soon be sent east. “With a meticulously constructed script based on extensive research and first-hand accounts, writer/director Rose Bosch brings to the screen one of the most moving dramas of the year.” – Menemsha Films

Photos (L-R): Annette Levy-Willard and Richard J. Golsan, Richard J. Golsan, Ludi Boeken

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Glasscock Center

Grants and Awards

Faculty Grants Ad Hoc Stipendiary Fellowship Awarded: 3 The Glasscock Center offers up to two awards of $1,000 each per academic year to support humanities research projects conducted by lecturers, visiting and adjunct faculty.

Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant Awarded: 1 Up to two awards in the amount of $750 each can be awarded to support interactions between faculty and students focused on investigations of ethical issues or ethics in general.

Glasscock Collaborative Grant Awarded: 1 One grant per academic year of $2,000 is offered to encourage humanities scholars to establish partnerships and conduct preliminary work that will lay the foundation for original expanded collaborative research projects.

Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellowship Awarded: 4 Four internal fellowships are awarded annually and provide a one-course teaching release during the semester of residency, a $1,000 research bursary, and an office in the Glasscock Center for the semester they hold the fellowship.

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship Awarded: 7 Up to eight fellowships of $5,000 each are offered per year.

These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field.

Glasscock Three-Year Seminars Awarded: 2 Two seminars, led by a faculty director may be awarded per year with a $3,000 stipend per year the seminar is in existence (up to three years).

Faculty Directors for Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program Awarded: 2 Two faculty members are selected and awarded a $5,000 stipend (payable from Honors and Undergraduate Research) to coordinate a research project designed to expand undergraduate research in the humanities by providing an intensive summer research experience for undergraduate students. Students are provided $2,000 each for research related expenses.

Publication Support Grant Awarded: 4 Up to two grants per semester of $1,000 each are available to support the costs of publishing a manuscript of humanitiesrelated scholarship.

Graduate Student Grants Brown-Kruse Fellows Awarded: 3 The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually awards up to three grants of $3,000 each in support of graduate research in the humanities.

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Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award Awarded: 2 Up to two awards are made to Texas A&M University graduate students in good standing, to support projects in the humanities that are based on collections housed at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.

Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship Awarded: 10 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.

Graduate Research Matching Grant Awarded: 1 The Glasscock Center will award one grant per semester of $1,000 to supplement competitively awarded humanities research grants of up to $5,000 secured from sources external to Texas A&M University.

Undergraduate Student Grants Glasscock Scholars Abroad Award Awarded: 3 Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program Awarded: 7 Undergraduate students are chosen by faculty directors to work on a research project designed to expand undergraduate research in the humanities and receive a stipend of $2,000. Students are involved in an intensive summer research experience and continue working on a thesis with Honors and Undergraduate Research throughout the year.

Other Grants Co-sponsorship Grants Awarded: 10 The Glasscock Center supports the humanities at Texas A&M University by co-sponsoring public lectures and performances with a scholarly component by visitors from outside the university with a humanities research component. Requests of up to $500 may be made.

Glasscock Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grants Awarded: 1 The Glasscock Center awards up to two grants per semester of $500 each to enhance the campus climate by nurturing collegiality, diversity, pluralism and the uniqueness of individuals through activities which include things like performances and speakers.

Notable Lecture Grants Awarded: 4 Faculty, graduate students and undergraduates are invited to apply for grants of up to $5,000 to support speakers of pre-eminent interdisciplinary reputation for interdisciplinary scholarship, whose presence on campus will both promote the humanities and contribute broadly to the intellectual community.

Symposium and Small Conference Grants Awarded: 7 Faculty, graduate students and undergraduates are invited to apply for awards of up to $5,000 in matching funds to support symposia and small conferences that advance scholarship and research in the humanities.

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

Joseph Oscar Jewell | Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Joseph Oscar Jewell was in residence at the Glasscock Center during the fall 2012 semester.

Professor Jewell pursued the research topic “Troubling Gentility: Race and Middle Class Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America.” He studied the ways in which minority races encountered, negotiated, and contested the inscription of whiteness into middle-class identity. His study centered around three populations: blacks in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, and Chinese Americans in San Francisco, California. He conducted research using a cultural analysis of documentary sources, including census data, tax digests, city directories, and private documents. His research into the formation and defense of middle-class identity will be presented in a book and will form a more complete picture of the American middle-class.

Donnalee Dox | Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University Donnalee Dox was in residence during the spring 2013 semester. During her fellowship, Professor Dox worked toward writing a booklength study entitled Contemplative Practices and the Problem of an ‘Inner Life’ that discusses the ways in which people cultivate a sense of an inner life through the adaptation of biological processes and the meaning of this cultivation. She claims that this cultivation of an inner life increases the capacity for mental flexibility, allowing people to adapt to socially unstable conditions.

This cultivation through contemplative practices allows a person to strengthen their tolerance for silence and solitude, necessary for negotiating the demands of modern culture and is biological and socially necessary. She conducted her research by synthesizing descriptions of interiority from contemplative practices, cultural resources drawn on to cultivate the ‘inner life,’ and physiological parallels to the sense of an ‘inner life,’ combining this practical research with current research on the workings of human physiology. Her findings were presented as a 30-page article on yogic meditation, revealing the interplay between people’s neurological systems and culture through yoga. Her research contributes to the fields of lived religion, contemplative studies, and the philosophy of mind and self.

Daniel Conway | Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University Daniel Conway, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities examined the ways in which the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard critiques modernity in his book Fear and Trembling. This book was published under the pseudonym “Johannes de silentio,” and Professor Conway shows that Johannes embodies a psychological type that Kierkegaard associates with a bourgeois culture (that is, the limiting of spiritual flourishing to attain an advantage over others), while he claims to lead a spiritually rewarding existence. The dual role of Johannes allows him to embody the limitations of any attempt to mount a rational or systematic response to the spiritual crisis that impends late modern European culture. Conway investigated this through the use of archival materials, journal articles, and scholarly books, with the goal to present his findings in book form. His research explains Kierkegaard’s reason for the use of a pseudonym as well as the first comprehensive account of the structure of Fear and Trembling, and interpretation of the religious, psychological, and social facets of Kierkegaard’s critique of modernity. Conway held his fellowship during the spring 2013 semester.

Harland Prechel | Professor in the Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Harland Prechel conducts research on “Political Capitalism: The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Recession” and was in residency in the spring of 2013. He uses historical documents, such as Congressional Records and public and corporate documents allowing him to pursue his topics through three interrelated questions.

In his book, he intends to use these documents to determine if elected officials acted autonomously in order to change public policies, or if they were pressured by groups outside of the government to change their policies. Professor Prechel considered that these changes permitted corporate cultures and structures to emerge and allow managers to manipulate finances, deceive agencies, and mislead the public, and to what extent were the action of these corporations legal.

His research contributes to the field of economic sociology, and his examination of how the economy is embedded in cultural and political arrangements that vary over time will allow scholars and political activists to understand the underlying causes of the economic crisis.

This information will allow the formulation of policies that facilitate stable capitalist growth and development while protecting the public’s interest.

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Glasscock fACULTY Research fELLOWS Up to eight fellowships valued at $5,000 each are given per year. These fellowships are designed to address a need for funding for research that could not be accomplished otherwise in order to complete a book project, major article or series of articles, or other research project that makes an impact in the field. Money can be used for any travel, conference, archival/fieldwork, or other normally reimbursable expenses. Recipients of the fellowship participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series, which functions as a working group for these works-in-progress. Projects are chosen on the basis or their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the candidate’s career and field.

Nathan Bracher, professor in the Department of International Studies, worked on a project entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a Political Pundit: The Case of François Mauriac.” He examined the work of Mauriac in order to highlight Mauriac’s distinctive role in the turmoil of political and cultural controversy heating up the debate in the Parisian press throughout the interwar years, the Occupation, the postwar upheavals, Cold War polarization, and the decolonization period. Professor Bracher’s goal was to complete two book projects making Mauriac’s influential editorials available to an English speaking audience. The first book provides an English edition of a select number of editorials written at critical times in the domains of politics, culture, society, and history. The second book provides an intellectual biography of Mauriac as a journalist.

Federica Ciccolella, associate professor in the Department of International Studies, worked on a project entitled “When East Meets West: Learning Greek in Venetian Crete.” Her research focused on the study of the Greek language, which is an important aspect of Renaissance culture. Her long-term goal is to publish a monograph on the different traditions of Greek studies in the West. Professor Ciccolella’s immediate goal was to analyze the unique case of a homogenous school library transmitted to us and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. This library includes the manuscripts of Andreas Donos, who taught Greek in Crete between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when the island was under Venetian rule. These manuscripts make it possible to evaluate similarities to and differences from the Greek curriculum established in Western Europe. Her research contributes to her monograph on Greek studies and allowed her to complete a thirty-page essay for a book that she is co-editing.

Judith Hamera, professor in the Department of Performance Studies, worked on a project entitled “‘Never Can Say Goodbye:’ Michael Jackson, Tyree Guyton, and the Ruins of American Deindustrialization.” Professor Hamera completed field and archival research for her book which is tentatively titled “‘(De)Industrial Actions: Performance and Social Change in the 1980s.” Her project argues that key American performers provided structures of feeling through which the economic upheavals of this pivotal decade could be understood, embraced , or resisted. She used archival and interview methods to collect data in order to finish three chapters from three key sections of the project.

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Angela Pulley Hudson, assistant professor in the Department of History, worked on a project entitled “Okah Tubbee, Laah Ceil, and the Limits of Antebellum Indianness.” Her project is a historical study of two extraordinary individuals who fashioned “Indian” personas for themselves during the mid-nineteenth century. She employed methods and theories from cultural and social history to use these individuals’ lives as an optic for understanding race, gender, religion, and class in the antebellum era. Ultimately, her project will contribute to our understanding of self-fashioning in the antebellum United States, and also offer a corrective to scholarship on race and representation that has tended to overlook the participation of women and people of color in shaping popular notions of ethnic identity, particularly “Indianness.”

Hoi-eun Kim, assistant professor in the Department of History, researched cultural, social, and political aspects of interracial marriages in the Japanese empire (1895-1945) for his forthcoming article “Between Racial Purity and Assimilation: The Politics of Interracial Marriage in the Japanese Empire.” His research encompasses the ways in which intermarriage and sexual liaison were formulated and discussed in the language of race, focusing his research on relations between Koreans and Japanese, comparing these to the background of European colonial relations with local people. Professor Kim presented the resulting article at the “Everyday Coloniality” conference in Seoul and plans to publish it in a scholarly journal.

Ruth Larson, associate professor in the Department of International Studies, produced an article analyzing the literature of Michel de Montaigne, a sixteenth-century French humanist and writer. Professor Larson interpreted Michel de Montaigne’s essay “D’un enfant mostruex” as an interrogation into what it is to be human in the early-modern period in the context of Montaigne’s writings on cultural difference and relativity. With particular emphasis on Montaigne’s attempt to understand the role of physical difference in relation to religion and nature, Larson related her research back to the consideration of physical alterity.

Anne Morey, associate professor in the Department of English, continued research for a forthcoming book entitled “Women and the Silent Screen,” that assesses the full scope of women’s engagement with movies from the beginnings of cinema until the late nineteenth century.

The book offers a comprehensive account of women’s contributions to silent film culture in United States and will help us rethink conventional ideas about authorship and the archive, emphasizing the hand women had in building the movie culture.

BROWN-KRUSE GRADUATE FELLOWS Three stipends of $3,000 each were awarded to support doctoral graduate student research in the humanities. Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellows are provided offices in the Glasscock Center for the duration of the award year.

These grants are made possible by the generous gift of Maggie and Corey Brown ’92 and of Gayle and Layne Kruse ’73, members of the Glasscock Center Development Council.

Mark David McGraw | Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University Mark David McGraw, (Hispanic Studies) worked on a dissertation entitled “The Universal Quixote: Appropriations of a Literary Icon.” He examined how the literary figure of Don Quixote has been appropriated by institutional, revolutionary, and nationalist movements, transforming the fictional character into a cultural icon by using both text and images to examine visual representations of Don Quixote in their political and historical contexts to ascertain their value and impact as appropriations in a variety of media, from political cartoons to satiric journals. He analyzed the textual and visual representations in their historical, political, and institutional contexts and studied in a comprehensive manner the process of appropriation that has transformed the literary character into a universal cultural icon.

Matthew A. Yokell | Department of History, Texas A&M University Matthew A. Yokell (History) worked on a dissertation focusing on the colony of Qingdao, China in order to examine German ideas about empire at the turn of the twentieth century. The Germans who lived and worked in Qingdao articulated a liberal vision of empire that shaped attitudes at home and abroad about Germany’s imperial mission. He examined the archival records of mid-level state and military officials, businessmen, and religious leaders that helped build Qingdao. He studied the colonial experience as “history from the middle” and explored the networks and ideas moving between Europe and Asia in order to evaluate the critical role Qingdao played in Germany’s emergence as a world power.

Vahid Vahdat Zad | Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University Vahid Vahdat Zad (Architecture) worked on a dissertation exploring the genesis of modernity in a non-Western society. He researched how Western architecture and urbanism were perceived and represented by Iranian travelers visiting European cities in the nineteenth century. He explained how the perception of modernity was transformed by the traveler’s own prejudices, expectations, and ideals in a type of “reverse-Orientalism.”

He intended to show that Persian and Islamic ideals played a major role in the construction of an image of the ‘modern’ West and that the Persian perception of modernity dealt primarily with an internal consistency of the ideas about a preimagined utopia. He used methodological devices known as strategic-location and strategicformation and discourse-analysis, mapping, and diagramming to compare the authors’ descriptions with the architectural spaces they experience.

“Without the assistance provided by this fellowship, I would not have had the ability to take what is an extremely interesting and promising project and make it into a thoroughly engaging study that has the potential to shape our understanding of Germany’s colonial past going forward.” ~ Matthew Yokell (History), Brown-Kruse Graduate Fellow

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Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds up to ten Graduate Research Fellowships at $2,000 each. The outcome should be a dissertation or a thesis, or a significant portion thereof. These students, along with the Brown-Kruse Fellows, make up the community of graduate scholars who populate the Graduate Colloquium Series and use it 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.

Claire Cothren (English) worked on a dissertation entitled “Sexing the American South.” She examined how gender and sexual boundaries in the American South are portrayed through Southern Gothic literature, reasoning that the genre is a useful one for social and political critique.

She examined works such as Percy’s Lancelot and Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina as texts that call attention to the troubling ways the Southern Gothic genre has historically attempted to unify the region by demonizing the sexual “Other,” in turn arguing that the Southern Gothic is not a “genre of helplessness” (Yaeger 13).

Jennifer D. Heth’s (History) research focused on how Theodore Roosevelt is depicted in monuments and memorials. She analyzed how Americans’ changing attitudes concerning western expansion, imperialism, and how Roosevelt himself are displayed in these works of art. Her study illustrated how Roosevelt’s image was tailored by biographers and the monuments’ patrons, and how this representation changed throughout the twentieth century. The dissertation also served as a framework for later studies of how Americans alter and employ the images of historic figures for their own purposes and how these works of art influenced and are influenced by their historical contexts.

Yeonsik Jung (English) investigated how turn-of-the-century white American middle-class anxieties about its shifting community (in the form of socialism, immigrants, the closing of the frontier, etc.) contributed to the formulation of an American identity. Research was conducted using selected American fiction (ranging from popular utopian fiction to modernist and realist texts), psychological theories of anxiety (including the theories of Freud, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger), and Nancy, Agamben, and Anderson’s claims on national community.

The goal was to prove how selected films and works of fiction between 1990 and 1925 affected the public consciousness and national character.

Brandy N. Kelly’s (Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences) dissertation was entitled, “Ripples of Hope: Young Women of African Descent Emerging into Adulthood and the Performance of Hope.”

Her study recognized the complexity and multidimensional nature of identity and leisure, and combines the sociopolitical history of leisure, Black feminist/womanist thought, and performance and social justice youth development theories to investigate the conceptualization and performance of hope. The research contributed to a greater understanding of how narratives of hope in mediated leisure and performance of self generate hope narratives in the lives of young African American women between 18-27 years old.

Brett H. Lowry (Anthropology) examined the strategy employed by Neo-Pagans with a European ethno-religious focus. In his dissertation, Lowry examined questions such as why some choose Neo-Pagan strategies as opposed to other less socially risky strategies, how the Neo-Pagan strategy appropriates the past and ancestors, and how these practices and narratives might revalorize whiteness. The answers came primarily from the collection and analysis of ethnographic data from Texan Neo-Pagan field sites, and they aided in determining how

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notions of ethnic heritage and ancestry bear on theoretical discussions of changing American constructions and performances of racial and religious identities in response to modernity and globalization.

David Orta (Sociology) examined how involvement in ethnic identitybased collective organizations affects members’ attitudes and beliefs about racial inequality. Orta proposed that these organizations develop a culture from a group-based historical racial-ethnic experience, which in turn influences member’s subscription to a racial “counter frame” or anti-racist worldview. He suggests that the “counter frame” is not well formed until after an individual’s experience within the group. Research came primarily from initial and follow-up interviews with members of Latina/o Greek Letter Organizations at two college campuses. The project ultimately yielded insights into the theoretical and practical theories of assimilation and incorporation into American society and add to literature on race and ethnic relations.

Vandhana Ramadurai (Communication) continued research on her dissertation showing the multidimensional nature of food insecurity, by bringing forth the voices of Indian slum women from the Rajendra Nagar slum in Bangalore as they share their experiences and understandings of food insecurity. She aims to help remedy the lack of in-depth research in the health communication field on the topic of food insecurity among women, and includes a richer discussion on the social and cultural aspects affecting hunger in the slum.

Bethany Shockley (Political Science) worked on a dissertation project examining how citizens in Latin America interact with their local officials in light of decentralization reforms that have now made local governments a large part of Latin American’s everyday life. She examined interactions from three perspectives—that of ordinary citizens, elected officials, and intermediary groups or non-government organizations—to supplement research on decentralization with research focusing on both the representatives and the represented.

Duygu Yenerim (Architecture) conducted research on the cultural background of people living in informal settlements developed north of the Mexican border known as colonias. She examined their vernacular building traditions and how their houses reflect social identity in order to propose improvements on housing and increased living standards.

She achieved this by conducting a literature review of the Texan and Mexican populations’ idea of “home,” by interviewing experts on social and cultural issues, and conducting a photographic field survey of the colonias homes, and interviewing the residents Hyun Wu Lee (History) investigated British soldiers’ social, economic, and cultural exchanges with Americans of different backgrounds in a variety of spaces in southeastern North America during the Seven Years’ War. His aim was to understand asymmetrical power relations along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, and gender identities, and endeavors to highlight the experience of commoners such as British rank-andfile, young Indian warriors, and slaves by analyzing various sources to reconstruct both macro and microscopic vignettes of British troops in the Southeast.

Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars Program The objective of the program is to expand undergraduate research in the humanities by providing an intensive summer research experience in which students are introduced to important research questions, trained in methods of research and analysis, and guided in the development of critical thinking, independent learning, and communications skills.

The students enrolled in a two-week intensive seminar taught faculty directors. In the seminar the students were immersed in a focused topic and developed a research question that they continued to investigate under the mentorship of the faculty member for the remaining eight weeks of the summer. Students attended writing studios created especially for this program through the Writing Center on topics including: How to Use the Library; How to Formulate a Research Question and Answer It (methods, research); Writing a Proposal Topic; and Peer Review of Draft.

“After Combat” Summer Seminar

“Biblical Criticism” Summer Seminar

Faculty Director: Marian Eide | Associate Professor, Department of English

Faculty Director: STEVEN OBERHELMAN | Professor, Department of International Studies

Undergraduate Scholars: MARISSA MADSEN | Department of English STEPHEN O’SHEA | Department of English There is much coverage in popular media concerning the numerous soldiers returning to the United States from lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the particular challenges these veterans face in returning to civilian life. This research project seeks to tell the stories of combat and return from the perspective of combat soldiers. Drawing on research from popular accounts to academic studies, a series of interviews were conducted with combat veterans. Their stories were presented providing readers with a context for these anecdotes and accounts.

Student researchers have compiled an archive of popular and academic sources on combat in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001 to the present.

Having completed IRB-required ethics training, these students participated in interviews and produce transcriptions. Additionally they pursued their own research projects drawing on their training in literary studies and addressing combat narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan. Two of Stephen O’Shea’s creative writing pieces were published in Explorations the Texas A&M Undergraduate Journal.

Undergraduate Scholars: VERONICA BUENO | Department of International Studies HALEY CHRISTOFILIS | Department of International Studies GARRETT FLATT | Department of International Studies RYAN KINKADE | Department of International Studies Historical and literary criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament began in the early modem period. This scholarly discipline seeks to recover when and where a particular text originated; how, why, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work in its production; what sources were used in its composition and the message it was intended to convey. The methods used include textual, source, form/tradition, and redaction criticism, postmodernism, gender and feminism, and literary critical tools. The students evaluated the following critical tools: what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what insights can be gained into the text (e.g., was Jesus a peasant who was executed for being a political revolutionary, or was he was put to death for disturbing the religious establishment, or was this part of salvation history?; or how did the transitions between the phases of Israelite social organization—from tribes to kingship to refugee status to recolonization—affect the development of the Pentateuch?); and an assessment of the validity of biblical criticism.

Photos (L-R): Stephen O’Shea, Marissa Madsen, Garrett Flatt, Ryan Kinkade

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Glasscock Scholars Abroad Award “The Glasscock Scholars Abroad Award made it possible for me achieve my dream of studying in Italy”

This award assists eligible students enrolling in humanities courses offered at the Texas A&M University Santa Chiara Study Center during the summer session. The Glasscock Center encourages students to develop a keen understanding of their own and other world cultures. Through humanities courses, students engage in disciplined and responsible studies of intellectual and material culture that deepen their knowledge, broaden their perspectives, and challenge their assumptions. Students from non-humanities disciplines are encouraged to apply for this grant. The Glasscock Scholars Abroad Award gives selected students the opportunity to bring a truly international dimension to their studies by providing funding toward a summer abroad in the summer program in Santa Chiara, Italy.

This scholarship is made possible through the generous gift of Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock ’59.

Summer 2013 Program Hannah Auer | Accounting major Shannon Murray | Mechanical Engineering major Erin Oddo | Biology major

“Traveling abroad widens your lens of the world, and allows you to see things you couldn’t before.”

“I learned I can be friends with people I think are nothing like me...The friendships I have made are the most valuable thing I brought home from Italy.”

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

Critical Childhood Studies Seminar Seminar Co-Directors: Lucia hodgson | Assistant Professor, Department of English CLAUDIA NELSON | Professor, Department of English Critical Childhood Studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on figurations of the child in the humanities. The field embraces the study of social constructions of childhood, children’s literature and culture, the child in legal theory, the social agency of the child, the child’s experience across national and historical boundaries, and child development theories in the social sciences, among other topics.

The Seminar’s ongoing activities include regular meetings of faculty, graduate students, and members of the larger community to discuss topics in childhood studies scholarship, as well as a discussion series aimed primarily at undergraduates and focused on issues relating to childhood in popular culture. Developing projects assisted by the Seminar include a volume of essays growing out of a June 2012 symposium on “The Image of the Child in Chinese and American Children’s Literature” held in Qingdao, China, co-sponsored by various Texas A&M entities (including the Glasscock Center) and Ocean University of China, as well as a symposium and related volume.

1914 and the Making of the Twentieth Century Seminar Seminar Director: Adam Seipp | Associate Professor, Department of History “1914 and the Making of the 20th Century” includes a major international conference which was held in College Station on 18-19 September 2013 and a publication timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I’s outbreak in 2014. The conference intends to move beyond historical studies of the war and offer an assessment of the conflict’s impact on the world of the twentieth century and beyond.

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

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OTHER faculty grants Glasscock Collaborative Grant

Publication Support Grant

In 2012, the Glasscock Center created a grant to encourage humanities scholars to establish partnerships and conduct preliminary work that will lay the foundation for original expanded collaborative research projects. Collaborative research has the potential to bring a new depth and breadth to humanities scholarship. This program is part of a broader Glasscock Center initiative to promote and facilitate collaborative research in the humanities and humanitiesoriented social sciences. The goal is to encourage faculty members conducting humanities-oriented research to stretch beyond the traditional single investigator model and fully engage with at least one partner (either at Texas A&M University or another university) in a collaborative research endeavor.

The Glasscock Center makes available grants to faculty of up to $1,000 each to be used toward 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, subventions, figures, translation costs, and the like).

Craig Kallendorf | Department of International Studies A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil, 1469-1850

Nancy Plankey-Videla | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Oak Knoll Press, October 2012

Collaborators: Maria Cristina Morales and Aurelia Lorena Murga, University of Texas at El Paso

Nadia Flores-Yeffal | Department of Sociology Migration-Trust Networks: Mexican Social Networks of U. S.-Bound Migration

Nancy Plankey-Videla’s project examines the contract services industry at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport in Houston to assess the extent to which wage and hour laws are enforced and the factors that inhibit or encourage compliance with labor and employment laws. The collaborative research includes surveys and in-depth interviews of contract workers, as well as interviews with employers, employer associations, unions, and community groups.

Ad Hoc Faculty Stipendiary Fellowship The Glasscock Center offers awards of $1,000 each per academic year to support humanities research projects conducted by lecturers, visiting and adjunct faculty. These funds may be used to support normally reimbursable research expenses connected to a humanities research project.

Janet Spurgeon | Lecturer, Department of Visualization “Cyborgs in Japanese Anime and Challenging Traditional Notions of Gender Identity” Yuki Waugh | Lecturer, Department of International Studies “Collaborative Second Language Writing: Creating a University Website Project” Joshua Wood | Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy “Nisus in Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume”

Texas A&M University Press, December 2012

Cara Wallis | Department of Communication Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones New York University Press, January 2013

Kristi Sweet | Department of Philosophy Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History Cambridge University Press, August 2013

Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant The Buttrill Ethics Curriculum Enhancement Grant supports interactions between faculty and students focused on investigations of ethical issues or ethics in general. Efforts may be channeled through existing or new courses, freestanding seminars, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, visiting speakers, or other events. Proposed courses and events must directly address and wrestle with ethical questions – past or present – pertinent to contemporary societies, cultures, and individuals.

Jyotsna VaiD | Department of Psychology “Research Method in Psychology: Ethical Issues”

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Other graduate student grants Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award

Graduate Research Matching Grant

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 2013 and presented their research at the Cushing-Glasscock Award Presentations on 25 October 2013.

Research Matching Grants supplement competitively awarded humanities research grants of up to $5,000 secured from sources external to Texas A&M University. The Glasscock Center awards grants of up to $1,000.

Laura Perrings | Department of English Laura Perrings used primary sources in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection, as well as the Rare Book Collection, for her study, which she titled “Detectives in Context: Victorian Sleuths, the Supernatural, and Textual Materiality.”

Bradley Cesario | Department of History Bradley Cesario drew on the Ragan Military Collection and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library for his project, “The Royal Navy and the British Public during Britain’s ‘Navalist Era,’ 1880-1920.”

Rainlilly Elizondo | Department of History “The city that the Civil Rights Movement forgot: The Formation of a Collective Memory through the lens of the US Department of Justice v Texas Education Agency, et al., Lubbock Independent School District”

“I am grateful for the opportunity that I have had to enrich my educational experience and to learn about my theoretical questions first-hand. I believe that I am certainly a better academic because of this experience and that I will continue to reap the benefits of my fieldwork throughout my career.” ~ Bethany Shockley (Political Science), Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow

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co-sponsored events Co-sponsored Symposia and Small Conferences The Glasscock Center supports the humanities at Texas A&M University by providing support for symposia and small conferences that showcase and promote scholarship and research in the humanities.

Philosophy Born of Struggle Annual Conference 26-27 October 2012

Bodies, Inc. Symposium

A Free Symposium on Embodiment, Gender, and Sexuality 2-3 November 2012

(Im)possible Trans-creations: Insights on Literary Translation 8-10 November 2012

North American Sartre Society 19th Bienniel Conference 28-30 November 2012

4th Annual Texas A&M History Conference 22-23 February 2013

Notable Lectures The Glasscock Center supports notable lectures by speakers of pre-eminent interdisciplinary reputation that will both promote the humanities and contribute broadly to the intellectual community.

“Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature” Jorge J.E. Gracia | State University at Buffalo 18 September 2012

“Backlash: From European Populism to the Tea Party”

Ian Buruma | Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College 27 September 2012

“Mandatory Ultrasound Viewing and the Politics of Vision” Rebecca Kukla | Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University 24 January 2013

“The Things They Carried”

Tim O’Brien | National Book Award Winner 2 April 2013

Eudora Welty Society International Conference 4-6 April 2013

Texas A&M Conference in Early Modern Studies 12-13 April 2013

“Glasscock Center support was much appreciated. The opportunity to hold the conference in the Center’s facilities was especially welcome—an ideal space for a smaller-sized conference.” ~ Professor David McWhirter Author and National Book Award Winner Tim O’Brien

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co-sponsored events Cultural Enrichment and Campus Diversity Grant (NEW) The purpose of this grant is to enhance the campus climate by nurturing collegiality, diversity, pluralism and the uniqueness of individuals through activities which include things like performances and speakers. This grant differs from the Co-sponsorship Grant in that the focus is not necessarily strictly a scholarly presentation, but should fulfill the mission of creating learning through activities that foster multicultural enrichment. Active political campaigns are not sponsored.

Communicating Diversity Student Conference Friday, 19 April 2013

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.

“Entangled Tangos: Passionate Displays, Intimate Dialogues” Ana Cara | Oberlin College 9 October 2012

“The Role and Future of Digital Humanities in the Archives: the Experience of the Kentucky Historical Society”

“Philosophy After the Age of the Nation-State”

Darrell Meadows | Kentucky Historical Society 18 February 2013

“Re-Enchanting the Political in the Global Age”

“Competing Claims: The Immediate Needs of Shoah Survivors versus the Memory of Restitution”

Giacomo Marramao | University of Rome 15 October 2012 Giacomo Marramao | University of Rome 16 October 2012

“Prisca Theologia, a Renaissance Theory of World Religion”

John Monfasani | Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany 19 October 2012

“The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder”

Alan Rosen | International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel 30 October 2012

Shannon Fogg | Associate Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology 4 March 2013

“From Sir Eglamour to Old Bangum: The Travels of a Ballad Hero” Richard Firth Green | Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University 18 March 2013

“Athens to Nashville: The Nashville Parthenon” Barbara Tsakirgis | Associate Professor of Classics and History of Art, Vanderbilt University 20 March 2013

“Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz on Real Distinctions” Marleen Rozemond | University of Toronto 15 November 2012

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HUMANITIES WORKING GROUPS The Glasscock Center encourages interdisciplinary research and scholarship by providing up to $1,500 in annually renewable support to self-constituted groups of faculty and students engaged in exploration of thematically-related research questions in the humanities. Participants share the goal of stimulating intellectual exchange through discussion, writing, viewing, reading, and other activities that further their inquiries into common scholarly concerns.

Atravesado Convenor: Garrett Nichols and Alma Villanueva, English The Atravesado Working Group derives its name from Gloria Anzaldúa’s path-breaking text, Borderlands/La Frontera, in which she describes all those who exist outside the mainstream, at the borders of gender, racial, sexual, and other social/professional norms as “atravesados.” This group seeks to provide a safe space for discussions of diversity, difference, and equity in the academic workplace, and promote scholarship that intersects with issues of diversity specific to the academy

Brains, Learning, and Animal Behavior (BLAB) Convenor: Gary Varner, Philosophy BLAB is an interdisciplinary group that discusses studies of behavior, cognition, and consciousness in nonhuman animals. The group facilitates bridge-building between philosophy and scientific disciplines, widening the conceptual framework for all participants, particularly by bringing humanistic methods of reflection and analysis to bear on questions that are of broad interest to all.

Cognoscenti Convenor: Jyotsna Vaid, Psychology Cognoscenti is an interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange on issues concerning mental functioning in humans and other species. Among the topics of interest are language and culture, figurative language processing, bilingualism, memory blocking, infant perception, reasoning, philosophy of mind, categorization, aesthetics, creative thought, and the mind-brain interface.

Countercultural Movements Convenors: Chuck Taylor and Christopher Carmona, English This is a research-focused group of faculty and graduate students who are actively involved in scholarship related to, or focused on, the study of counterculture movements prevalent throughout contemporary society from the Beat Generation of Writers to the Hippie Movement of the 1960s and the Punk Movement of the 1970s to the Spoken Word Movement. We hope to facilitate discussion drawn from a variety of different fields such as decolonial studies, and queer studies, popular culture studies, multicultural and transnational studies, performance studies, Art, and religious studies.

Critical Geography Convenor: Wendy Jepson, Geography The Critical Geography Working Group provides a forum to read and discuss classic and contemporary texts that engage with critical approaches to studying space, place, and the environment. The group addresses the philosophical underpinnings of recent scholarship in critical geography, drawing upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives and empirical content.

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Critical Transdisciplinarity Convenors: Alessandra Luiselli and Jose Pablo Villalobos, Hispanic Studies The Critical Transdisciplinarity Working Group seeks to develop a new approach to knowledge by posing questions that would transcend the interdisciplinary approach. Through transdisciplinarity, the group attempts to step beyond interdisciplinarity by developing intellectual pursuits that do not necessarily originate within the boundaries of one’s own discipline, but emerge from intellectual dialogues with specialists in other disciplines throughout the humanities and sciences.

Digital Humanities Convenor: Richard Furuta, Computer Science The Digital Humanities Working Group provides a synergistic, interdisciplinary environment that develops new knowledge through informatics research and prepares the next generation of humanities scholars. It does so by facilitating communications among the campus scholars developing innovative computing tools, digital library collections, and hypertextual archives of broad and significant academic and educational value to the humanities. The group provides support for the public Digital Humanities lecture series, the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate, and works to facilitate creation of an interdisciplinary community on campus centered around the Digital Humanities.

Early Modern Studies Convenors: Nandra Perry and Meghan Parker, English The Early Modern Studies Working Group provides a forum for those working in the literature, culture, and history of Early Modern Europe.

It provides a foundation for new graduate students, a forum for the presentation and discussion of writing, and links between interested graduate students and faculty that promote academic mentorship and further the process of professionalization.

History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture Convenor: Nancy Klein, Architecture The History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture Working Group promotes collaboration and cooperation among faculty and students in fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, arts education, gender studies, history, and visual studies. The working group will serve as a forum for the discussion of current research, as a means to share ideas and receive feedback from participants, and to develop opportunities to engage students.

Indigenous Studies Convenors: Qwo-Li Driskill, English, and Angela Pulley Hudson, History The Indigenous Studies Working Group explores the challenges and rewards of engaging in Indigenous Studies, discovers and analyzes the similarities and differences between academic approaches to the study of Indigenous peoples, investigates trends and changes within the field of Indigenous Studies, supports and assists one another in undertaking innovative research.

Language Matters

Religion and Culture

Convenor: Maria Irene Moyna, Hispanic Studies The Language Matters Working Group explores language issues for a thorough understanding of the human condition. The group brings together faculty and graduate students across different departments in and outside of the College of Liberal Arts whose work is connected with the language broadly understood. The group meets to discuss topics such as the sounds, grammatical structure, and lexicon of human languages, the pragmatics of language use and change across time and space, bilingualism, factors affecting language acquisition, and various other topics of communication through language.

Convenors: Daniel Schwartz, History, and Heidi Campbell, Communication The Religion and Culture Working Group promotes discussion among faculty and graduate students interested in interdisciplinary investigations of the subject of religion both past and present. The group adopts broad-based theoretical approaches to the study of religion, understood in this context to include the material culture, modes of expression, philosophy, institutions, and experiences that are infused with spiritual or transcendent meaning.

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

Convenor: C. Jan Swearingen, English The Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Working Group uses discourse theory to address issues in composition, linguistics, cultural studies and rhetoric. It explores cross-cultural rhetorics, language in diasporic communities, environmental poetics, verbal art and cultural performance, interactional styles in the workplace, multicultural pedagogies, historical dialectology, and the role of gesture in communication.

Medieval Studies

Social, Cultural, and Political Theory

Convenor: Britt Mize, English The Medieval Studies Working Group invites the participation of all faculty and graduate students with academic interests in the Middle Ages, roughly defined as the period 500-1500 CE. The group provides a forum for dialogue about the field of medieval studies and any topic within it; supports participants’ own research with opportunities for constructive feedback; increases awareness of, and access to, interdisciplinary possibilities as we benefit mutually from one another’s more specialized interests and expertise; and continues to develop a sense of community among TAMU’s medievalists.

South Asia Studies

Music, Movement and Cultural Performance Convenor: Emily McManus, Performance Studies The Music, Movement, and Cultural Performance working group is an interdisciplinary group interested in the performance of culture broadly defined. Areas of interest include music, dance, movement, theatre, comedy, poetry, spoken word, and other performative genres. Meetings provide members the opportunity to present new and established research and/or creative endeavors. The group seeks to reinforce collaboration between scholars at Texas A&M and other institutions.

New Modern British Studies Convenor: Katherine Kelly, English The New Modern British Studies Working Group is an informal group of faculty members and graduate students working in British, Irish, and Postcolonial literary, historical, and cultural studies from the eighteenth century to the present.

Queer Studies Convenors: Daniel Humphrey, Film Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Krista May, Associate Editor of World Shakespeare Bibliography The Queer Studies Reading Group is a research community of faculty and graduate students interested in the interdisciplinary field of Queer Studies, which questions the meaning of sexual identities, performances, discourses, practices, and representations. The group is particularly interested in engaging work that rejects and destabilizes essentialized ideas about sexuality, gender and race.

Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

Convenor: Elisabeth Ellis, Political Science The SCPT Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students who are interested in theories of society, broadly understood. The group provides an intellectual center for work in contemporary social thought, intellectual history, cultural theory, and political thought from ancient times to the present day. Members use a variety of research methods including critical theory, ethnography, or textual analysis.

Convenor: Nandini Bhattacharya, English The South Asia Studies Working Group focuses on the interplay and confrontation between dynamics of liberalization, globalization and nationalism in the South Asian region. Precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods of South Asian history will be studied using area, cultural, and women’s studies as well as other disciplinary perspectives on the politics and cultures of South Asia as a region.

War, Violence, and Society Convenors: Aaron Linderman and Adam Seipp, History The War, Violence and Society Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students who employ a variety of disciplines in the study of violence and the ways it impacts society. This working group considers the causes, courses, and consequences of violence, including conventional warfare, insurgencies, and state-directed violence.

It benefits from the perspectives of specialists in the institutional, cultural, social, and gendered study of conflict in the human experience.

Women’s and Gender Studies Convenor: Claire Katz, Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies Program The Women’s and Gender Studies Working Group facilitates intellectual community among faculty and students conducting research on various aspects of gender. Participants include faculty and students connected with the Women’s & Gender Studies Program and the other members of the university community who are interested in this area of scholarship.

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