April 30, 2004 - Texas A&M University graduate students Nicole
DuPlessis, Sheila Jordan, Thomas G. Nester and Lowell Mick White have
been awarded this year's Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Research Awards.
With funding from the John H. Hinton Cushing Memorial Library
Endowment and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research,
the $1,000 Cushing/Glasscock Award supports A&M graduate students
working in the humanities whose projects are based in the collections of
the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.
DuPlessis, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is
researching Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, following the convention
of the "intrusive" narrator in his stories by working with the varied
materials in the Rudyard Kipling Collection.
Jordan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Modern and
Classical Languages, will be employing original Spanish documents in "A
Comparative Study and Edition: The Terán-Massanet Expedition into Texas,
1691." Her project will contribute to the creation of an integrated
history of the languages and peoples of the Hispanic Southwest.
Nester, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, will focus
on "Racial Desegregation of the United States Army and the Texas
National Guard." He will use a wide array of sources to assess both the
impact of military desegregation on local Texas communities and the
course of racial integration in the Texas National Guard.
White, a M.A. candidate in the Department of English, will be
conducting research on "The Period of the Texas Centennial with Special
Emphasis on the Reactions of African-American and Hispanic Literature."
His examination of the differences between "Texas Southern" literature
and "Texas Western" literature focus on their political resonances,
specifically in the context of the state centennial of Texas in 1936.
A new award competition will be held in spring 2005. For more
information, contact glasscock@tamu.edu or the Cushing Memorial Library
and Archives at stevensmith@tamu.edu.