Professor Rebecca Hankins

The importance of the LGBTQ+ collections at the Texas A&M University Libraries' Cushing Memorial Library and Archives has been strategic in pushing for a more inclusive campus. These collections include the Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture, the Arden Eversmeyer’s lesbian literary and media collection, the papers of TAMU Professors Antonio La Pastina/Dale Rice (international LGBTQ+ materials) and Harriette Andreadis (founder of A&M’s Women’s & Gender Studies Program), and the University’s GLBT archive that chronicles the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision.

Professor Hankins will discuss the relevance of these collections and the role they play in making the A&M campus more welcoming and inclusive. This event is free and open to the public.

This is a virtual talk. Please register, and a Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event (registration closes 24 hours before the event). This presentation will be recorded.

Inquiries: Dr. Marini, fmarini@library.tamu.edu

About the Speaker: Rebecca Hankins is the Wendler Endowed Professor and certified archivist/librarian at Texas A&M University. She is an affiliated faculty in the Interdisciplinary Critical Studies Program that includes Africana, Women’s & Gender, and Religious Studies. Her work has appeared in The International Review of African American Art, Critical Muslim, Foundation, American Archivist, and RUSQ; most recently, she published an essay titled “Practicing Islam in the time of COVID-19,” freely available in the Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World eBook (2020), edited by TAMU Communication’s Professor Heidi Campbell.