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Texas A&M Graduate Students Receive Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Research
Awards
Roger Reeves (English), Linda Jones Black (Teaching, Learning and
Culture), and Jenny Whisenhunt (English) have been named the 2005
recipients of the Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Humanities Research Award.
Co-sponsored by the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives and the
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, this annual award
provides graduate students in the humanities with $1000 to cover
research expenses for projects based in the collections of the Cushing
Memorial Library and Archives.
Reeves's project, titled "Writing the African Body: The Geography
of Identity in European Travel Narratives/Fictions and the
'Remixing' of the African Identity by African-American
Witnesses," examines the construction and re-construction of the
African identity by both European travelers/historians and
African-American writers such as Phyllis Wheatley and Amiri Baraka. His
project will draw heavily upon the Rex B. Gray collection.
Black's project, "Formal and Informal Education in Texas 1870-1920
and the Changing Roles of Women," explores the early education of
women in Texas and how it intersects with beliefs of Progressive
Reforms. Black will utilize a variety of collections including papers
of prominent women, early texts regarding education, and cookbooks.
According to Black, early cookbooks often "gave advice to wives and
mothers in their roles as family nurse and early childhood teacher."
Whisenhunt's project, "Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days: Narrative
Self and Identity in the Letters of Charles Goodnight" will draw upon
the Charles Goodnight Correspondence collection. Specifically,
Whisenhunt will examine how Goodnight constructs the persona of a
"tough-as-nails" rancher and compare that to his persona in
letters and documents exchanged with his first and second wife.
"These projects demonstrate the exciting, diverse, and innovative
research being conducted by graduate students in the humanities as well
as illustrate the wealth of research possibilities afforded by the
growing collections of Cushing Library" said James Rosenheim, Director
of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
The award winners will spend a month this summer in residence at
Cushing Library and present the results of their research in an event
open to everyone during the fall. A new award competition will begin
in the Spring of 2006. For more information, please contact Chris
Morrow at c-morrow@tamu.edu or (979) 845-1951.
Christopher L. Morrow
Curator for Outreach
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Texas A&M University
5000 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-5000
Phone: (979) 845-1951
Fax: (979) 845-1441
c-morrow@tamu.edu