The Brazos Valley African American Museum is seeking qualified students for internship positions at the museum. Internships are for one semester or 45 clock hours beginning fall semester 2007.
Internship experiences may include research on African Americans in the Brazos Valley, Web site development, educational program development, artifact cataloging, preparing exhibit and displays, computer assisted instruction or assistance with other museum programs and seminars.
Internships will be supervised by museum staff and designated college faculty.
Interns will be paid $15/hour.
For Information Call: Dr. Albert Broussard at: (979) 845-7130 or Dr. LaVerne Young-Hawkins at (979) 691-2902
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Internship Opportunity
Monday, August 27, 2007
Fall 2007 Grant Deadlines
The Melbern G.
Graduate Travel-to-Conference Grant
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 13 September 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 13 September 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 13 September 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 13 September 2007
Cross-Disciplinary Travel Conference Grant
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 4 October 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 4 October 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 7 November 2007
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 7 November 2007
Travel to Archives or Travel for Field Work Grant (faculty) (grad)
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 7 November 2007
Publication Support Grant
5:00 p.m., Thursday, 7 November 2007
Humanities Working Groups Grant
Ongoing Application
All applications must be completed online!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
2007-2008 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship Recipient Named
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair are pleased to announce Dr. Amy Earhart as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship. This fellowship provides $10,000 to support to a project in digital humanities by faculty in any department in the university. The award aims to assist faculty projects that depend on or are fundamentally inflected by information technology, computer-aided research, and the ‘digital revolution.’
Dr. Earhart (Department of English) received this fellowship to continue work on “The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive” (CDA), which is being developed in partnership with the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. The CDA collects the cultural record of nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, in an interactive digital archive useful to a multidisciplinary group of scholars. It may be found here http://www.digitalconcord.org/.
The archive will include texts from canonical figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, along with materials from lesser known figures and groups: free African-Americans, Irish immigrants, the poor, and the criminal class. Literary texts, maps, photographs, music, and newspapers are among the varied records that will be included in the repository. The CDA will offer visual means of addressing information, and given the importance of location, geography, and landscape in shaping life and culture in Concord, this instrumentality should encourage new avenues of research.
The Glasscock Center will make another call for this award in spring 2008. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at 979-845-8328 or j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Glasscock Center’s website at http://www.glasscock.tamu.edu.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Undergraduate Research Awards for Spring 2007
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research has made awards to two undergraduate students for the Spring of 2007 under its Undergraduate Research Award Program. These awards are designed to encourage and support research in the humanities by undergraduate students at Texas A&M University. Audre Honnas and Geraldine Gray have both received awards of $500 for research expenses in order to pursue their current projects.
Audre Honnas, a Communication major, is currently studying the influence of entertainment media on civic culture. Using case studies such as Ronald Reagan’s 1966 gubernatorial campaign and Arnold Schwarzenneger’s 2003 gubernatorial campaign, her project explores the ways entertainment media intersects with American civic culture. She hopes to illustrate the ways in which entertainment media can be said both to debase and to democratize American politics.
Geraldine Gray, a History major, is examining the history of women in Jamaica and Barbados between 1750 and 1838. Specifically, her work investigates the contradictions between women’s lived experiences during the period and the legal structures that sought to legislate gender and sexuality. She also intends to examine the ways women protested against these practices.
Another call for this award will be distributed in fall 2007. For more more information, please contact James Rosenheim, Director, and 979-845-8328 or j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Center’s website at http://glasscock.tamu.edu.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
2007-2008 Glasscock Graduate Scholars Announced
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research has named three Glasscock Graduate Scholars for academic year 2007-2008. The awards are designed to encourage and support research toward completion of a thesis or dissertation in the humanities by graduate students at Texas A&M University. They are made possible by the generosity of Corey C. ’92 and Maggie Brown and of Layne E. ’73 and Gayle Kruse, members of the Glasscock Center’s Development Council. The following students, who will occupy offices in the Glasscock Center, were selected to receive awards of $3000 each:
Zeba Imam, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication, will be studying the relationship between citizenship and women’s identity in India. Relying on the frameworks of citizenship literature and discourse theory, she hopes to articulate the subject positions Hindu and Muslim religious nationalist discourses are offering women. In doing so, she will then be able to assess how the identities inherent in these subject positions are affecting women’s citizenship within the Indian state.
Kiyoon Jang, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is examining American gothic authors and texts in order to trace the pre-modern shift from the autonomous author to the reader-dependent author. In her dissertation, she proposes “ghost writer” as a new critical term to describe nineteenth-century gothic writers from Charles Brockden Brown to Henry James. She considers these writers’ re-configuration of the author as a ghost that comes into being because readers believe in it.
Sudina Paungpetch, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, will be exploring U.S.-Thai relations during the Vietnam War. Specifically, her dissertation will focus on the extent to which the influence of American democratic ideas helped bring about positive changes in Thai society. By connecting the U.S. presence in Thailand to the spread of democratic ideas throughout Thai culture, her work will contribute to the new historiographical trend of cultural diplomatic history. Sudina has also been named as one of the winners of the department’s Charles C. Keeble (’48) Dissertation Fellowship Award.
The Glasscock Center will make another call for these awards in spring 2008. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at 979-845-8328, at
j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Center’s website at http://www.glasscock.tamu.edu.
Zeba Imam, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication, will be studying the relationship between citizenship and women’s identity in India. Relying on the frameworks of citizenship literature and discourse theory, she hopes to articulate the subject positions Hindu and Muslim religious nationalist discourses are offering women. In doing so, she will then be able to assess how the identities inherent in these subject positions are affecting women’s citizenship within the Indian state.
Kiyoon Jang, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is examining American gothic authors and texts in order to trace the pre-modern shift from the autonomous author to the reader-dependent author. In her dissertation, she proposes “ghost writer” as a new critical term to describe nineteenth-century gothic writers from Charles Brockden Brown to Henry James. She considers these writers’ re-configuration of the author as a ghost that comes into being because readers believe in it.
Sudina Paungpetch, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, will be exploring U.S.-Thai relations during the Vietnam War. Specifically, her dissertation will focus on the extent to which the influence of American democratic ideas helped bring about positive changes in Thai society. By connecting the U.S. presence in Thailand to the spread of democratic ideas throughout Thai culture, her work will contribute to the new historiographical trend of cultural diplomatic history. Sudina has also been named as one of the winners of the department’s Charles C. Keeble (’48) Dissertation Fellowship Award.
The Glasscock Center will make another call for these awards in spring 2008. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at 979-845-8328, at
j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Center’s website at http://www.glasscock.tamu.edu.
Publication Support and Travel Grant Recipients Announced for Spring 2007
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research has awarded two Publication Support grants to be used toward the costs of publishing scholarly manuscripts which have been accepted for publication or are currently in press. The following faculty members were selected to receive awards:
Paul Almeida (Department of Sociology), for translation into Spanish of his forthcoming book Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005
Troy Bickham (Department of History), for illustrations in his articles “Eating the Empire: Intersections of Food, Cookery and Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” to appear in Past and Present, and “Defining Good Food: Cookery Book Illustrations in Britain” to appear in the British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies
The Glasscock Center has also awarded grants for travel to archives or to undertake field work to further humanities-related projects. The following faculty members were selected to receive these awards:
Theodore George (Department of Philosophy) for research on his project “Objectivity: Hermeneutics and Philosophy”
Dror Goldberg (Department of Economics) for research on his projects on the beginnings of paper money
Rebecca Schloss (Department of History) for research on her project “France at the Edges: Life in France’s Atlantic Port Cities, 1700-1850”
Adam Seipp (Department of History) for research on his project “In a Foreign Land: GIs, West Germans, and Cold War Future in Franconia, 1950-1980”
The Glasscock Center will make another call for these awards in fall 2007. For more information, contact James Rosenheim, Director, at (979) 845-8328, visit the Center’s website at http://www.glasscock.tamu.edu.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Glasscock Challenge Scholarship Recipients for 2007-2008
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Glasscock Challenge Scholarship, Hannah Jones and Wanjun Zhang. This scholarship provides recipients with $10,000 per year for three years and allows for an additional award of up to $5,000 for serious study-abroad experience. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage adventurous students in technical and scientific disciplines to explore the humanities beyond the requirements of the core curriculum in order to integrate the lessons of the humanities into their life’s work.
Hannah Jones is currently majoring in Biomedical Science, with the future goal of attending the College of Veterinary Medicine. She plans to take additional coursework in Philosophy and History in order to broaden her understanding of the relationship between the humanities and the scientific disciplines that form the core curriculum of her study.
Wanjun Zhang is also majoring in Biomedical Science and plans to pursue a career in Veterinary Medicine. She intends to focus on History in her humanities work, studying both European and Asian cultures.
This scholarship is made possible through the generous gift of Susanne M.and Melbern G. Glasscock ’59.
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