Professor Richard Delgado has been selected as a faculty fellow for the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Each faculty fellow will partner with one or more of the departments offering graduate degrees housed in Texas A&M’s 16 colleges or schools, or the Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Delgado, the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law, is widely acknowledged as a founder of critical race theory. He has received six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding books on human rights in North America, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is among the most cited legal scholars in the United States with more than 5,000 citations.
Delgado will collaborate with faculty-scholars and law students at the Texas A&M School of Law in Fort Worth. Additionally, he will interact with faculty and graduate students in the Colleges of Education and Liberal Arts on the main campus.
Each year, the institute selects its faculty fellows from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments or significant recognition, including two Nobel laureates, a Wolf Prize recipient, a recipient of the Hubbell Medal in Literature for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, and an awardee of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
