Professor Rebecca Hankins

The transgender collections housed at the Texas A&M University Libraries' Cushing Memorial Library and Archives are some of our most accessed resources, making it possible for TAMU to become one of the premiere research destinations for scholarship on LGBTQIA+ communities. The collections include the papers of Judge Phyllis Frye (the first elected transgender judge in Houston), the Mark Sieling/John Algor rare transgender and gay materials, the papers of Sharon Stuart/Tom Heitz, who was a journalist and JAG lawyer, and many others.

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

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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.