Annual Report 2003-2004

Summary of Activities of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research for 2003-2004

AWARDS

Internal Faculty Release Fellows Awarded: 4 Four Release Fellows were awarded a semester's relief from teaching and a $1000 stipend to pursue research projects related to the Glasscock Center's theme for the year. The Fellows met fortnightly during their release semester and then organized a symposium showcasing the research they pursued.

Stipendiary Faculty Fellows Awarded: 23 Stipendiary Fellows are selected each year by departments and interdisciplinary programs affiliated with the Glasscock Center. The Stipendiary Fellows participate in the Glasscock Center’s activities and receive a research stipend of $1500.

Visiting Fellows Awarded: 2 Two visiting fellows were in residence in spring 2004 for a week each. They each presented a public lecture, participated in the works-in-progress colloquium, taught graduate seminars, met with Internal Faculty Release Fellows, and made themselves available to humanities scholars here.

Support of Symposia and Notable Lectures Awarded: 7 Awards of up to $4000 in matching funds are made each year to support symposia, small conferences, and notable lectures on humanities topics.

Co-sponsorship Grants Awarded: 28 Requests for up to $400 in matching funds are considered monthly by the Glasscock Center’s Advisory Committee to co-sponsor a wide range of humanities-related events, from visiting speakers to artistic performances and public readings.

Humanities Working Group Grants Awarded: 8 Up to $1500 in annually renewable support is available for self-constituted groups of faculty and students who are engaged in exploration of thematically related humanities research questions.

Humanities Informatics Grants Awarded: 5 The Glasscock Center makes HI grants at three different levels: 1) up to four grants of $2000 or less, 2) up to three grants of $2000 to $5000 each, and 3) one or two grants of $10,000. These funds may help in ways ranging from the support of initial feasibility studies to the funding of undergraduate or graduate assistance to the provision of software or hardware needed to develop proposals seeking external funding. This program is funded by the Vice President for Research.

Glasscock Graduate Scholars Awarded: 3 Stipends of $3000 each are awarded annually to support graduate student research in the humanities. Nominees who are undertaking research toward the completion of a thesis or dissertation are put forward by departments. This program is supported by gifts from Corey Brown and Layne & Gayle Kruse.

Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Humanities Research Award Awarded: 4 This award supports graduate research projects in the humanities based in the collections of the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. The committee awards funding of up to $1000 for summer research.

Graduate Student Fellows Awarded: 10 Graduate Student Fellows - both M.A. and Ph.D. candidates - are competitively selected each year from affiliated departments. They participate in Glasscock Center activities and receive a $1000 research stipend.

Graduate Student Travel-to-Conference Grants Awarded: 25 Competitive grants of up to $300 ($500 for overseas travel) are annually made to M.A. and Ph.D. students to support presentation of humanities research at conferences in their disciplines.

Glasscock Center Undergraduate Research Awards Awarded: 13 Awards of up to $500 each are made annually in support of research in the humanities by undergraduates at Texas A&M University. They support travel, research-related internships, purchase of materials and the like.

Glasscock Center/Honors Program Awards Awarded: 8 Awards to match funds provided by the University Honors Program are made to University Undergraduate Research Fellows pursuing humanities topics.

ACTIVITIES

Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship Awarded: 1 Number of submissions received: 43

“Definitions of Culture” Lecture Series 3 lectures throughout fall and spring semesters Average attendance: 50 people

“Defining Culture” Conference 1-3 April 2004 Number of registrants: 103 Number of panelists: 22

“Manifestations of Culture” Symposium 12-13 September 2003 Average attendance: 40-50 people

“Citizenship Unbound” Conference Average attendance: 40-50 people

Humanities Informatics Lecture Series 4 lectures throughout fall and spring semesters Average attendance: 55-75 people

Colloquia 14 Presentations Average attendance: 30-35 people Fortnightly meetings of work-in-progress colloquia where Texas A&M University humanities faculty from 7 different departments presented their work.

Glasscock Center Newsletter 8-page full color newsletter created and sent to 1100 people.

Flyers created publicizing Glasscock Center activities: 8 Average number of flyers distributed: 913 Topics include: Citizenship Unbound, Defining Culture, Humanities Informatics 2004, Manifestations of Culture, Graduate Programs, Aiwha Ong – Visiting Fellow, Joseph Litvak – Visiting Fellow, Lynn Hunt – Visiting Lecturer.

APPENDICES

Internal Faculty Release Fellows

Spring 2004 Theodore George, Department of Philosophy, “The Quickening of Culture: Kant, Nature, and the Ends of the Human” Melanie Hawthorne, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, “ ‘As a Woman, My Country is the Whole World’: National Culture, Gender, and Sexual Identity” Edward Portis, Department of Political Science, “Community, Conflict, and Cultural Democracy” Larson Powell, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, “The Differentiation of Culture”

Stipendiary Faculty Fellows

2003-2004 Shelly Wachsmann, Department of Anthropology, “The Persian War Shipwreck Survey” Frederica Ciccolella, Classical Studies Program, “Studying Classical Languages in the Renaissance” Jennifer Mercieca, Department of Communication, “ ‘We the People,’ The Rhetorics of Republicanism and the American Political Fiction, 1776-1845” Dennis Berthold, Department of English, “Shadowing the Risorgimento in Herman Melville's Clarel” Kimberly Nichele Brown, Department of English, “Reel Identities: Revolutionary Passing and Subversive Masking in Contemporary Film and Literature” Susan B. Egenolf, Department of English, “Varnished Tales: Romantic Women Writers and the Presence of the Past” Marian Eide, Department of English, “The Lure of Violence: Political Brutality in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics” Pamela R. Matthews, Department of English, “Dreaming of Joan: Plath, Rich, and Woman in the 20th Century” Mary Ann O'Farrell, Department of English, “A Rhetoric of Jane Austens” Sally Robinson, Department of English, “Marketing Authenticity: Masculinity, Consumer Culture and the Logic of Feminization” Victoria Rosner, Department of English, “Interior Designs: Modernism and the Reconstruction of Private Life” Manuel Martín Rodriguez, Film Studies Program, “No Kidding: Hispanics in Films for Children” Troy Bickham, Department of History, “The Imagined Frontier: the Impact of American Indians on British Culture During the Eighteenth Century” Rebecca Scholoss, Department of History, “The Distance between the Color White and All Others: The Struggle Over White Identity in the French Colony of Martinique, 1802-1848” Hilaire Kallendorf, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, “The Comedia as Casuistry” Brett Cooke, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, “A New Mimesis: Natural Psychology and the Development of Characterization” Donnalee Dox, Department of Performance Studies, “Somatics and Spirituality” Roger Sansom, Department of Philosophy, “Culture from an Evolutionary Perspective” Lisa Ellis, Department of Political Science, “Provisional Liberalism” Armando Alonzo, Religious Studies Program, “The Origins of a Border Society, Texas and Mexico, 1700-1865” Joseph Jewell, Department of Sociology, “ ‘Bourgeois in Black, White and Brown’: Moral Reform and the Making of Minority Middle Classes in Three Cities, 1870-1900” Virginia Adan-Lifante, Women’s Studies Program, “Hurt but Free: Domestic Violence in America’s Dream and The Women Who Walked Into Doors”

Visiting Fellows

Joseph Litvak, Tufts University In residence 19 April – 23 April 2004.

Dr. Litvak is the author of Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (1992) and Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (1997), which was awarded the Perkins Book Prize of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. His current project, “Svengali in Hollywood: Jews, Victorian Novels, Mass Culture,” is a study of the figure of the Jew in popular culture from the Victorian period to the present. His presentation at the Glasscock Center was entitled “Wonderful Town: The Blacklist Musical.”

Aiwha Ong, University of California, Berkeley In residence 26 April – 29 April 2004.

Dr. Ong received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987), Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999), and the co-editor of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (1992) and Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1995). Her newest book is Buddha in Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New America (University of California Press, Public Anthropology Series). She recently received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to study risk, sustainability, and citizenship in Asian global cities. Her presentation at the Glasscock Center was entitled “Re- engineering Personality in the New Chinese Economy.”

Symposia/Notable Lectures

2004 Spring Event: Symposium - Book History at A&M Workshop, 23-28 May 2004 Organizer: Steven Smith, Cushing Library Award: $1000 Co-sponsors: Texas A&M University Libraries, the Sterling C. Evans Library, the Loran L. Laughlin Printing Arts Endowment, the John H. Hinton Endowment, the C. Clifford Wendler Professorship

Event: Notable Lecture - Ming Cho Lee, “Art, Artists, and A Liberal Arts Education,” 12 April 2004 Organizer: Michael Greenwald, Department of Performance Studies Award: $1000 Co-sponsors: Theater Arts Program of the Department of Performance Studies, Victoria N. and Robert A. Rowland, III ’65 Visiting Artists and Performance Studies Fund, Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts

Event: Symposium - “Walt Whitman at Texas A&M: A Celebration and Symposium,” 1 April 2004 Organizer: M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Department of English Award: $4000 Co-sponsors: Friends of the Evans Library, Department of English, Texas A&M University Libraries, College of Liberal Arts

Event: Symposium - “La Lucha – The Struggle for Hispanic Civil Rights,” 10-11 March 2004 Organizer: Armando Alonzo, Department of History Award: $5000 Co-sponsors: Women’s Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University Libraries, International Studies Program, Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance

Event: Notable Lecture - Elena Poniatowska, “Elena Poniatowska: 50 Anos de Creaction,” 17-18 February 2004 Organizer: Manuel Martin-Rodriguez, Department of Modern and Classical Languages Award: $4000 Co-sponsors: Hispanic Studies Working Group, Hispanic Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Women’s Studies

Event: Notable Lecture - Nikki Giovanni at the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference, 22- 25 January 2004 Organizer: Erika Kelly, Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference Award: $1000 Co-sponsors: College of Liberal Arts, MSC Diversity Council

2003 Fall Event: Notable Lecture - Henry Rousso, École Normale Superiéure in Paris, “History, Memory, and Justice: The Impact of the Trials for Crimes Against Humanity in France,” 15 September 2003 Organizer: Richard Golsan, Department of Modern and Classical Languages Award: $900 Co-sponsor: Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Co-Sponsored Events

Viv Gardner, University of Manchester, “The Three Nobodies: Unpicking Autobiographical Strategies in the Written Accounts of Three British Provincial Performers, Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion and Ina Rozant,” 27 April 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. Victor Manuel Mendiola, Bilingual Poetry Reading and Workshop, 27 April 2004. Co-sponsor: Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Seetha Srinivasan, University Press of Mississippi, “2004: The Year of the University Press,” 26 April 2004. Co-sponsor: Texas A&M University Press. Viv Gardner, University of Manchester, “Butterfly Dances and Braziers: Issues of Class, Gender and Performativity in the Eccentric Theatrical Career of the 5th Marquess of Anglesey,” 26 April 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. George Wright, Department of History and President, Prairie View A&M University, “The Legacies of the Brown Case Mandating Public School Integration in 1954,” 20 April 2004. Co-sponsors: Department of History, History of the Americas Research Project. Katharine Conley, Dartmouth College, “Lee Miller's Surrealistic Egypt,” 14 April 2004. Co-sponsors: Department of English, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, College of Liberal Arts, Comparative Literature Program. Brian Leiter, University of Texas, “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: The Case of Freud,” 25 March 2004. Co-sponsor: Department of Philosophy.

Richard Meyer, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, “Gay Power circa 1970: Visual Strategies for a Sexual Revolution,” 22 March 2004. Co-sponsors: Queer Studies Working Group, Department of History, Department of English, Department of Communication, Dean of Faculties. Wendy Shields, University of Montana, “The Challenges and Rewards of Comparative Metacognition Research,” 12 March 2004. Co-sponsors: Brains, Learning, and Animal Behavior Group. Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, seminar “Romantic Women Writers,” 9 March 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, “Anchors Away: British Romanticism in America,” 8 March 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Renaissance Humoral Theories of Race and Their Impact on the History of Racism,” 1 March 2004. Co-sponsors: Department of English, Callalloo. Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, seminar on “Trick Beginnings: Recent Films of the Fantastic,” 27 February 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, “Pictured Reading in Nineteenth-Century Painting,” 26 February 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, College of Liberal Arts, American Studies Program. James H. Justus, Department of English, Indiana University, “Fetching Arkansas: Writings from the Old Southwest,” 24 February 2004. Co-sponsors: Department of English, Jerome Loving. Michelle Masse, Department of English, Lousiania State University, “Constructing Essential Ties Louisa May Alcott's Communities,” 19 February 2004. Co-sponsor: Department of English. Janine Barchas, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin, “The Female Landscape of Robinson Crusoe,” 6 February 2004. Co-sponsors: New Modern British Studies Group, Textual Studies Group, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. Omar Hernández Sotillo, Department of Communication, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, “From Monopoly to Competition: What We Can Learn from Mexican Elections and Television,” 6 February 2004. Co-sponsor: Department of Communication. Maria Teresa Fernandez Rosario, Lecture and poetry reading, February 2004. Co-sponsors: Women’s Studies Program, Women’s Center, Department of Sociology, Department of English. Giuseppe Grilli, Università Orientale (Italy), “La formación de un estilo: La novela caballeresca en la península ibérica,” 8 December 2003. Co-sponsors: Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Hispanic Studies Lecture Series Texas Premier of the film Kiki & Tiger, directed by Alain Gsponer, 1 December 2003. Co-sponsor: Queer Studies Working Group. Javashock Poetry Slam, 20 November 2003. Co-sponsors: MSC Literary Arts Committee, Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Houston A&M Club, Brazos Valley Writers, Mighty Literati. Shirley Mangini, California State University, Long Beach, “La pintora de catroce almas: Maruja Mallo y la Generación del 27,” 28 October 2003. Co-sponsors: Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Terry Belanger, University of Virginia, “English Collectors and American Rare Book Libraries: Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way,” 14 October 2003. Co-sponsors: Department of English, Texas A&M University Libraries, World Shakespeare Bibliography. Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Brown University, “The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies,” 2 October 2003. Co-sponsors: Film Studies, Department of English, Department of Modern and Classical Languages.

Gregory Moses, Marist College, “The Passion for Utopia in America: What They Didn't Teach You in Philosophy,” 25 September 2003. Co-sponsors: Department of Philosophy, John McDermott. Nico Schüler, Texas State University at San Marcos, “From J.S. Bach to the Beatles: On ‘Fame’ in Music,” 18 September 2003. Co-sponsor: Department of Performance Studies.

Humanities Working Groups

Brain, Language, and Animal Behavior (BLAB) BLAB is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students that meets on a bi-weekly basis to discuss current and landmark studies of behavior in nonhuman animals. The group facilitates bridge- building between the Philosophy Department and scientific disciplines and results in an increase of knowledge and a widening of 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. Convenor: Dr. Colin Allen, Department of Philosophy

Cognoscenti Working Group Cognoscenti is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students whose aim is to provide a forum for intellectual exchange on issues concerning mental functioning in humans or 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. Convenor: Dr. Jyotsna Vaid, Department of Psychology

Ethnography/Theory Working Group The Ethnography/Theory Working Group is an organization of scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to address general problems in social and cultural theory. In the past, the group has focused on topics which include the development of practice theory, new writing styles in feminism, approaches to ritual, multi-site ethnography, and canonical works in phenomenology. Convenor: Dr. Harris Berger, Department of Performance Studies

Film Studies Working Group The Film Studies Working Group was initiated to provide a forum for scholars in film and media studies to collaborate with others in their field. The group is looking toward holding discussion events on works- in-progress and eventually to developing collaborative projects. Convenor: Dr. Robert Shandley, Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Hispanic Studies Working Group The Hispanic Studies Working Group was initiated in order to fill a need for cultural programming and intellectual discussion on matters pertaining to Hispanic studies. The group will conduct meetings, host speakers, and work toward conducting mini-conferences. Convenor: Dr. Manuel Martín-Rodriguez, Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Humanities Informatics Working Group The Humanities Informatics 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 developing innovative computing tools, digital library collections, and hypertextual archives of broad and significant academic and educational value to the humanities. The group sponsors a public lecture series and a seed grant program. The group plans on hosting best practices workshops, short courses, and symposia. Convenor: Dr. John Leggett, Department of Computer Science

New Modern British Studies Working Group 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. The group's activities have included a co-sponsored public lecture and a public symposium, and a planned works-in-progress colloquium series featuring visitors from other colleges and universities in the region. The group has also planned a lecture series for 2003-2004 featuring seminars specifically designed to help graduate students consider changes in pedagogy, technology, and archival research in the field as they prepare for dissertation research and the job market. Convenor: Dr. Mary Ann O'Farrell, Department of English

Queer Studies Working Group The Queer Studies Working Group is a research community of faculty and graduate students interested in the emerging 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. Co-Convenors: Dr. Anthony P. Mora, Department of History and Dr. Gregor Kalas, Department of Architecture

Humanities Informatics Grants

Coding, Mapping and Digitizing the Popular Movement Press of El Salvador, 1975-1980 This project will make available a rare collection of publications produced by social movements in El Salvador during the 1970s. This “movement press” documents political events from a grassroots’ perspective; its preservation provides an important resource for study. Project Director: Paul D. Almeida, Department of Sociology. Award: $5000

19th Century Concord: A Historical and Literary Center Website This website offers a multi-faceted picture of 19th-century Concord, Massachusetts, by presenting literary texts, architectural drawings, photographs, video, broadsides, physical artifacts, music, historical records, and period newspaper clippings. It will also provide an on-line repository for these documents. Project Director: Amy E. Earhart, Department of English. Award: $9000

Enhanced Information Composition Through Semantic Clustering This project aims at refining a tool that uses sampling and composition to represent information collections. The tool is a generative agent that collects and composes information samples automatically, based on a model of the user’s interests. Project Director: Andruid Kerne, Department of Computer Science. Award: $8000

The Picasso Project and the Development of Visual Cultures. This on-line digital library of the works of Pablo Ruiz Picasso combines textual commentary and visual images and allows users to create multiple non-linear arrangements of both by organizing the material to suit their own needs. Project Director: Enrique Mallen, Department of Hispanic Studies. Award: $3000

PaleoAmerican Artifact Digital Archive This project will create a three-dimensional image archive of paleolithic artifacts and present on the web a virtual artifact database. This pioneering use of imaging technology has significant implications for the virtual preservation of otherwise endangered materials. Project Director: Michael R. Waters, Department of Anthropology. Award: $3000

Glasscock Graduate Scholars

Boris H.J. M. Brummans, Department of Communication “The Staging of Selves through Textwork in Organizational Communication Studies” Yvonne Davis Frear, Department of History “Battling to End Segregation in Dallas, Texas, 1945-1965: Race, Gender, and Social Mobilization in a Local Civil Rights Movement” Philip M. Smith, Department of History “Freedom and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Florida”

Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Humanities Research Award

Nicole DuPlessis, Department of English “Representations of Literacy and Orality in Kipling's Just So Stories” Sheila Jordan, Department of Modern and Classical Languages “A Comparative Study and Edition: The Teran-Massanet Expedition into Texas, 1691” Thomas J. Nester, Department of History “Racial Desegregation of the United States Army and the Texas National Guard” Lowell M. White, Department of English “The Period of the Texas Centennial with Special Emphasis on the Reactions of African- American and Hispanic Literature”

Graduate Student Fellows

N. Rochelle Bradley , Department of English “The Influence of Ancient and Medieval Philosophical Texts on Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Writers” Hsin-Chin Chen, Department of Psychology “The Influence of Visuospatial and Linguistic Properties of Writing Systems on Reading Processes and the Influence of Bilingualism/Biculturalism on Aesthetic Perception” Iris Hyejin Park Chu, Department of Sociology “The Construction of Professional Identity Through the Interrelationship of Social Factors, Especially Gender and Race” Jeremy Dyes, Department of History “The Role of Sir James Craig in the Irish Home Rule Crisis of 1911-1914” Matthew Foust, Department of Philosophy “The Riddle of Community” Marie Leonard, Department of Sociology “Social Movements and Womens’ Involvement” Samuel E. Murdock, Department of History “The Experience of North Georgians in Antebellum Politics” Nicholas Rangel Jr., Department of Communication “U.S. Foreign Policy Rhetoric” Christopher A. Sparks, Department of Anthropology “Samurai Cowboys in Middle America” Cassady Yoder, Department of Anthropology “Medieval Dietary Change: The Application of Physical Anthropology to History”

Graduate Student Travel-to-Conference Grants

2004 Spring ($5300) Hassan Bashir, Department of Political Science, $300 Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2004 Corpus Christi, TX Suzanne Boys, Department of Communication, $300 International Communication Association New Orleans, LA Nicole DuPlessis, Department of English, $300 Francis W. Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis and Friends Upland, IN Jane Flaherty, Department of History, $500 Economic History Society Annual Meeting Egham, England Allen S. Gehring, Department of Philosophy, $300 Interdisciplinary Movements in Philosophy Buffalo, NY Erin Hollis, Department of English, $500 Bloomsday 100: International James Joyce Symposium Dublin, Ireland Sheila Pat Jordan, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, $300 37th Congress of Southwest Council of Latin American Studies San Antonio, TX Cherry Levin, Department of English, $300 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Convention San Antonio, TX Heidi Luchsinger, Department of Anthropology, $300 69th Annual Meeting of Society for American Archaeology Montreal, Canada James Pruitt, Department of History, $500 Southern Conference on British Studies Memphis, TN Rosa Elena Saenz, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, $300 Identity and (Auto)Biography Montreal, Canada Lindsay P. Sloan, Department of English, $500 Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture Aberystwyth, Wales Paul J. Springer, Department of History, $300 Society for Military History 2004 College Park, MD Lowell Mick White, Department of English, $300 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Convention San Antonio, TX Dongshin Yi, Department of English, $300 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Convention San Antonio, TX

2003 Fall ($3100) Jayant Anand, Department of Anthropology, $300 102nd AAA Annual Meeting Chicago, IL Sheri Anderson, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, $300 Linguistic Association of the Southwest 2003 Edinburg, TX Priyadarshini Banerjee, Department of English, $300 Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies 2003 Newport Beach, CA Sonjeong Cho, Department of English, $300 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism New York, NY Jaemin Choi, Department of English, $300 Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies 2003 Newport Beach, CA John Churchill, Department of Philosophy, $300 Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy Baltimore, MD Sarah Hart, Department of English, $300 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention Mizzoula, MT David Henderson, Department of Philosophy, $300 REALIA – Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Science Digby, Nova Scotia Rebecca Stout, Department of English, $300 South Central Modern Language Association 2003 Convention Hot Springs, AR Grace Turner, Department of Anthropology, $400 Flowing Through Time: Exploring Archaeology through Humans and Their Aquatic Environment Calgary, Canada

Glasscock Center Undergraduate Research Awards

2004 Spring ($4000) J. Stephen Addcox, Department of English, $500 “Romanticizing Reality: How Political History Translates to Fiction” (Research Project) Rob Altman, Department of History, $500 “Meteorology/Oceanography at Normandy: A Junior Officer’s Experience in World War II” (Research Project) Ashley Chadwick, Department of History, $500 “Maurits C. Escher and Medieval Islam” (Conference Paper) Matthew Coles, Department of History, $500 “The Necessity of Philosophy in Theology” (Directed Studies Paper) Sarah Etheridge, Department of Political Science, $500 “States of Nature: Political Theory Meets Anthropology” (Conference Paper) Larry Falcon, Department of History, $500 “Tejano Rangers in Texas: 1910-1925” (Independent Research) Justin Flint, Department of History, $500 “Tudor Legitimization Through Legend” (University Undergraduate Research Fellows Thesis) Shannon Gallion, Department of History, $500 “Doctrine in Practice: A Study of Hymns in the First Presbyterian Church” (Conference Paper)

Lindsey Wilkinson, Department of Anthropology, $500 “Bilingualism and Humor Perception: An Exploratory Study” (Independent Research)

2003 Fall ($2350) Margaret Friess, Department of Music, $500 “Luciano Berio: Musical Influences and His Composition Sinfonia” (Conference Paper) Luis Garcia, Department of Music, $500 “Gender and Musique Concréte: Analytical Studies of Works by Pierre Scahaeffer’s Protégés” (Conference Paper) Lindsay Orman, Department of English, $350 “Caught in the Act: The Stage as a Backdrop for Defining Crime in Renaissance England” (University Undergraduate Research Fellows Thesis) Jason Patterson, Department of Music, $500 “An Analysis of Heavy Metal: Duration, Form, and Prolongation in the Music of Metallica 1984- 1988” (Conference Paper ) Norman Stephen Smith, Department of History, $500 “Early Modern European State Formation using the Fiscal-Military State Model” (Academic Journal Paper)

University Undergraduate Research Fellows Logan Boatman, Department of History “Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague: Past and Present Effects and Treatment in Rural Texas” Courtney Brannon, Department of English “Postmodern Film Adaptation as a Language Game” Matthew Hawthorne, Department of History “American Foreign Policy Towards Arab-Israeli Conflicts 1948-1973: A View Through the Speeches of the Secretaries of State” Michael Johnson, Department of History “Skylab: The Forgotten Mission” Erin Miller, Department of Psychology “Away from Home? Constructions of Domestic Identity in Imperial India” Meredith Morgan, Department of English “Action and Agency in Early Modern England” Lindsay Orman, Department of English “Caught in the Act: The Stage as a Backdrop for Defining Crime in Renaissance England” Hannah Peterson, Department of History “From Gumbo to Hot Dogs: How Race and Ethnic Relations Affected the Americanization of Louisiana’s Cajun Culture in the Twentieth Century”

Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

2003 Debbie Lee Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)

“Definitions of Culture” Lecture Series

Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California-Los Angeles, “Bodies and Selves in the Eighteenth Century: Toward a Post-Foucaultian History of Personhood,” 11 February 2004 Joseph Litvak, Department of English at Tufts University, “Wonderful Town: the Blacklist Musical,” 20 April 2004 Aihwa Ong, Department of Anthropology and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, “Re-engineering Personality in the New Chinese Economy,” 27 April 2004

“Defining Culture” Conference

1-3 April, 2004 Conference Director: Antonio La Pastina Keynote Speakers: Marjorie Garber, William J. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Director, Humanities Center, Harvard University Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior and Director, Living Links Center, Emory University John Downing, Director, Center for Global Media Research, Southern Illinois University Ibrahim K. Sundiata, Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University

“Manifestations of Culture” Symposium

12-13 September 2003 Keynote Speakers: Pamela Asquith, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Alberta Debra A. Castillo, Department of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University

“Citizenship Unbound” Symposium

14 November 2003 Keynote Speakers: Roberto Suro, Director of the Pew Hispanic Center David Miller, Department of Political Science, Nuffield College, Oxford University David Gutiérrez, Department of History, University of California-San Diego

Humanities Informatics Lecture Series

Humanities Informatics Initiative, Annual Reception, 20 November 2003 Lisa Spiro, Director of Educational Technology Research & Assessment Cooperative in the Foundren Library at Rice University, “Digital Documentaries: Representing Reality,” 20 November 2003 Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, “Software Aesthetics: Tools and Patterns of Hypertext,” 22 April 2004 Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Corporation, “The Future of Reading, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Screen,” 28 April 2004 Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University, “A Review of Institutional Repository Projects and Technologies,” 6 May 2004