5/6/09 Liberal Arts Names Four Cornerstone Fellows

Top L-R: Albert Broussard, William Bedford Clark Bottom L-R: Jane Sell, Eduardo Urbina

• Four liberal arts faculty have been named Cornerstone Faculty Fellows for 2009. They are Albert Broussard, professor of history; William Bedford Clark, professor of English; Jane Sell, professor of sociology; and Eduardo Urbina, professor of Hispanic Studies.
  
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• Cornerstone Faculty Fellows are awarded $30,000 for a professional bursary payable over a 4-year period.

Liberal Arts Names Four Cornerstone Fellows

Four liberal arts faculty have been named Cornerstone Faculty Fellows for 2009. The selected recipients are Albert Broussard, professor of history; William Bedford Clark, professor of English; Jane Sell, professor of sociology; and Eduardo Urbina, professor of Hispanic Studies.

The college presents Cornerstone Fellowships yearly to three or four full professors who have developed outstanding professional records. Recipients are chosen based on their professional records of accomplishment that include scholarly work in highly regarded venues, external funding, outstanding classroom contributions, and service in major departmental, college or university committees.

Cornerstone Faculty Fellows receive a $30,000 professional bursary payable over a 4-year period. The funds are to be used to support professional activities, including travel expenses, the purchase of teaching and research material or equipment, the funding of graduate assistants, and the funding of summer research salaries.

Broussard received his Ph.D. from Duke University and came to Texas A&M in 1985. He specializes in African-American history and has received several university awards for distinguished teaching. He is author of Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900–1954; American History: The Early Years to 1877; and African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853–1963, and is a co-author of The American Republic to 1877 and The American Vision.

Clark received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and came to Texas A&M in 1977. He is a leading expert on the major Southern poet, novelist, and critic Robert Penn Warren. Clark is the author of The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren (University Press of Kentucky, 1991) and the general editor of the Warren correspondence project, now in its fifth volume.

Sell received her Ph.D. from Washington State University and came to Texas A&M in 1978. Her specific interest is in social psychology, particularly in the areas of the group processes and experimental methods. She has published articles on expectation states processes, social dilemmas, experimental design and theory construction. She has a co-edited book, Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences; and she has multiple NSF grants supporting her research.

Urbina received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and was recently the 2009 Fallon-Marshall Lecturer. Since 1979, Urbina has researched the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes and has developed a hypertextual edition of the Quixote based on the early editions of the text. Urbina holds the Cervantes Chair at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, is the director for the Cervantes Project at Texas A&M, and directs graduate studies in the Hispanic Studies department.

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Contact: Ashley Leathers txgrl6@libarts.tamu.edu 979-862-4879