Academic Partners

We are proud to have regularly hosted a number of out queer Texas A&M faculty members at our TAMU LGBTQ Professor Panels to speak on coming out in academia and to share their life experiences. Past panels have included:

Dr. Isaac Sabat (Psychology)

• P.I. of the Texas A&M PRIDE Psychology Lab for LGBTQ Identities In the Workplace

Dr. Karan Watson (Electrical Engineering)

• (Tenured) Regents Professor, TAMU Provost between 2010-2017
• Recipient of 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Justin Moscarello (Neuroscience)

• Memory, Learning, and Emotion

Dr. Kris May (English)

• World Shakespeare Bibliography
• The History of Pride Month

Dr. Jesse O’Rear (Performance Studies)

• Trans Theater, Queer Studies

Dr. Sara Raven (Science Education)

• Equity & Diversity, Early-Age Science Learning

Dr. Daniel Humphrey (Film Studies)

• European Art Cinema, Queer Studies

Dr. Matthew Sheldon (Chemistry / Materials Science & Engineering)

• Solar Cells, Nanoscale Materials

Dr. Alicia Harper (Mathematics)

• Logarithmic Geometry, Resolution of Singularities

Dr. Nathanael Rosenheim (Urban Planning)

• Food Security, Community Resilience

Dr. Michael Moore (Computer Science)

• Human-Computer Interactions, Software Design

Dr. Yasha Hartberg (Biomedical Sciences)

• Biomedical Writing, Cultural Inheritance
• Mental Health

We are always looking to host more of these panels. If you are a professor interested in joining an one-and-a-half-hour panel to talk about coming out in academia, or if you’d like to host a seminar/presentation to students on any LGBTQ-oriented research, please get in touch with our Faculty Relations Chair at tamu@chapters.ostem.org.