The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is focusing on the theme "How Do We Keep Knowing?" during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years.

This broad question is allowing us to explore the ways in which knowledge is defined, produced, renewed, studied and in other ways made a part of societies and cultures. We have found that conversation about how we keep knowing includes interrogation of any and all those terms by scholars from all the humanities disciplines and from the social sciences that adopt humanities perspectives.

From Fall 2008 through Spring 2010, we will explore the theme of  “Journeys.” We conceive this theme to embrace considerations metaphorical and literal, contemporary and historical - of migration, travel, exile, transportation, exploration, tourism and more.  We anticipate a lecture series, a symposium in spring 2010, and other events that will address everything from space exploration to border crossings, quest myths to cinematic travelogues, farewell rituals to forced marches, dioramas to guide books and travel diaries – and much else besides.

An online undergraduate journal of the humanities.

The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering and celebrating the humanities and humanities research among the community of scholars at Texas A&M University and in the world beyond the academy. In addition to bringing scholars together around a particular theme for lecture series and conferences in alternate years, the Glasscock Center awards annually a national book prize, the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. The Glasscock Center also supports humanities students and faculty at Texas A&M University with a number of funding opportunities, including release fellowships, cross-disciplinary travel grants, stipendiary fellowships, and co-sponsorship grants for lectures and symposia. Fellows and grant recipients are integral to the Center's on-going programs and activities, such as monthly colloquia, humanities working groups, and the Humanities Informatics lecture series. In alternate years, the Center holds a conference and series of events organized during the academic year, where faculty and graduate students present their works-in-progress to gatherings of interested colleagues.

In July 2002, the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University approved the renaming of the Center for Humanities Research as the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. This name change recognizes an extraordinary gift from Melbern G. Glasscock '59 and Susanne M. Glasscock, which constitutes a sustaining endowment for the Center. The funds made available by this endowment are providing for expansion of existing programs and the development of new ones.

The Glasscock Center is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and its offices are located in Suite 310, Glasscock Building (formerly the History Building) on the Texas A&M University Campus.