The Ransom Center has awarded 52 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from Tennessee Williams’ visual self portraits to 1980s Hollywood Gothic, Deborah Hay and the choreographer as archivist, literary estates and copyright, the Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian contemporary art, and more.
Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has supported more than 1,250 research projects requiring extensive onsite use of the Ransom Center’s collections and resulting in the publication of books, journal articles and doctoral theses. Fellowships are awarded for projects that span the Center’s collections in literature, performing arts, film, photography, and art.
Fellowship types vary, including one- to three-month fellowships, travel stipends and dissertation fellowships. Several individual donors and organizations fund the program.
The 2023-2024 fellows reflect the global stature of the collections, representing 12 U.S. states and 11 countries, with half traveling from abroad.
See the table below for the full list of recipients.
| FIRST | LAST | AFFILIATION | PROJECT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Jonathan | Allen | University of London (Warburg Institute) | Motivated Magic: Conjuring Tricks on an Ideological Stage |
| Kaveh | Askari | Michigan State University | Stripe, Frame, and Reel: Indian Ocean Film Circuits | |
 | John | Bak | Université de Lorraine | “‘[A] picture of my own heart’: Tennessee Williams’s Visual Self-Portraits, 1939” |
 | Nourdin | Bejjit | Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco | The Three Continents Press and Arabic Literature |
| Isabel | Bielat | University of Virginia | Romantic Nationalism and the Transnational Celebrities of British Political Culture, 1789-1905 | |
 | Mattia | Biffis | University of Oslo | The Return of Andrea Casali: Imposture, Identity, and the Power of Images in the Late Renaissance |
 | Susannah | Blair | The Morgan Library and Museum | Constantin Guys and the Modern Newspaper |
| Niall | Carson | University of Liverpool | The Irish Academy of Letters | |
 | Arka | Chattopadhyay | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | Beckett and Coetzee: Mathematical Modernisms |
 | Emily | Cline | Queen's University | Trace Evidence: The Influential Afterlives of Catherine Crowe’s Supernatural Detective Fictions |
 | David | Coates | University of Warwick | Amateur Theatre in Britain, 1779-1914 |
 | Mattia | Corso | University of Verona | Italian Sacred Landscape: Insights into the Relationship Between Religion and Nature in Early Modern Italy from the Ranuzzi Archive |
 | Nancy | Dantas | The Museum of Modern Art | Aspirational Modernisms in the Archives of the Transcription Centre |
 | Maria | De Simone | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Faces of Many Colors: Racial Impersonation in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920 |
 | Nicholas | Duddy | University of Oxford | Arthur Miller's Suicidology of the Stage: Suicide and Dramatic Form in All My Sons and Death of a Salesman |
 | Fergus | Edwards | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Stoppard's Plays and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Ethics |
 | Anne | Etienne | University College Cork | Digging Arnold Wesker |
 | Brice | Ezell | The Lovett School | Tom Stoppard's Theatre of Clarity |
 | Kate | Fortmueller | University of Georgia | Risky Business: Hazards and Risk Management in the U.S. Film Industry |
 | Samuel | Fullerton | University of California, Riverside | The Transformation of Libelous Politics in Seventeenth-Century England |
 | Anna | Girling | Institute of English Studies, SAS, U of London | Nancy Cunard and the Writing of Black Internationalism |
 | Carolyn | Guzski | SUNY, Buffalo State University | Norman Bel Geddes and Indigeneity at the Metropolitan Opera |
 | Kate | Highman | University of Cape Town | The Disciplinary Forces of English Literature |
 | Wendy | Hitchmough | University of Sussex | Buying power: Mary Hutchinson's agency and network as a bi-sexual modernist patron |
 | Tom | Hulme | Queen's University Belfast | Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation |
 | Anna | Jamieson | Birkbeck, University of London | “Mad Mary Lamb” and the English Private Madhouse, 1796-1847 |
 | Dan | Kois | Independent Scholar | The United States v One Book Called "Ulysses" |
 | Eva-Marie | Kröller | University of British Columbia (Professor emerita) | Thomas B. Costain: A Canadian-American Career in Publishing and Authorship |
 | Kristin | Leahey | Boston University, College of Fine Arts | Hellman’s The Little Foxes: A Production and Scholarly Examination of African Americans in a Classic Postbellum Play |
 | Sophie | Levin | Washington University in St. Louis | “Amies des Livres”: Modernist Networks and Women Translators in Interwar Literary Paris |
 | Nicole | Lobdell | Northwestern State University of Louisiana | Bithia Mary Croker: A Life in Letters |
 | K. Bellamy | Mitchell | University of Chicago | A Poetics of Apology |
 | Chris | Mourant | University of Birmingham | Scholarly Edition of E. M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' (1924) |
 | Sorcha | Ní Fhlainn | Manchester Metropolitan University | Warren Skaaren: 1980s Hollywood Gothic |
 | Nigel | O'Hearn | University of Texas at Austin | Writing Between the Scenes: Tracing the Industrial Activity and Rhetorical Genres of American Drama, 1939–1964 |
 | Rachel | O'Nunain | University of Oxford | Locating the 1890s Theatrical Avant-Garde: independent theatre movements and coterie dramatic networks |
 | Daniele | Pascale Guidotti Magnani | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Celebrating Sanctity. The 1712 feasts for Saint Caterina de’ Vigri in Bologna |
 | Giulia | Pellizzato | Harvard University | Blanche Wolf Knopf’s Transatlantic Networks |
| Laurent | Pichaud | Paris 8 University | Deborah Hay – portrait of the choreographer as an archivist | |
 | Alec | Pollak | Cornell University | The Author Is Dead: Literary Estates, Copyright, and the Dissemination of Culture |
 | Michelle | Reynolds | University of Exeter | Women Illustrators and the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Little Magazine |
 | Elsa | Richardson | University of Strathclyde | Sex, Science, and the Simple Life: The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology |
| Joshua | Schulze | University of Michigan | Working Below Below-the-Line: Race, Labor, and Resources in Classical Hollywood | |
 | Adam | Sellen | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | La Sorpresa: Tourism and Archaeology in Mitla, Oaxaca. |
 | Alexander | Sergeant | University of Portsmouth / Fantasy-Animation.org | Discovering "War Brides", Herbert Brenon and the Lewis Selznick Collection |
| David | Vaughan | Northwestern Oklahoma State University | Milton and Catullus: Poetic Allusion and the Commentary Tradition | |
 | Donya K. | Washington | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Hellman’s The Little Foxes: A Production and Scholarly Examination of African Americans in a Classic Postbellum Play |
 | Molly Heather | Watson | University of Nottingham | Motherhood, Children and Loss in the Works of Sara Coleridge and Mary Shelley, 1820-44 |
 | Eleanor | Webb | Department of History, University of Pennsylvania | Between Studium and Accademia: Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Italy |
 | Victoria | Wiet | Depauw University | George Ives and Queer Sociability at the Late Victorian Theatre |
 | Tash | Wilder | Independent Scholar | My Twin Anne |
 | Rebecca | Wolff | Christopher Newport University | Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian Contemporary Art |