Fellowships Awarded to 54 Scholars

The Ransom Center has awarded 54 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from a women’s history of modernism told through clothing to the imprisoned writer in the international imagination and more.

Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has supported more than 1,400 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 2024-2025 fellows reflect the global stature of the collections, representing 14 U.S. states and 13 countries.

See the table below for the full list of recipients.

	FIRST	LAST	AFFILIATION	PROJECT
	Alex	Abramovich	Independent Scholar	The Man In The Room
	Rachit	Anand	University at Buffalo	“The Shadow of a Word: Thinking Allegorically with J.M. Coetzee”
	Matteo	Augello	London College of Fashion	Swanson on Fashion
	John E.	Bowlt	University of Southern California, Los Angeles	“Echoes of the Silver Age: Alexandre Benois and the Russian Emigration, 1925-60”
	Elizabeth	Brown	Independent Scholar	Brancusi's Photographs
	Alan	Burnett Valverde	Stanford University	Children of the Revolution: Mexican-American Modernisms in the 1930s
	KJ	Cerankowski	Oberlin College	Roar of Wanting: Touching Trans History
	James	Collins	Classic & Ancient History, University of Sydney	The Enigmatic Chorus: Twentieth Century Approaches and a Living Lab
	Jayme	Collins	Princeton University	Archival Ecologies
	María Gabriela	Colmenares España	Universidad Central de Venezuela	Ruth Robertson and the Media Constellations of the Oil Industry in Venezuela, 1946-1958
	Kathleen	Comerford	Georgia Southern University	Wives, Mothers, Rulers: The Medici (Grand) Duchesses, 1537-1637
	Michael	DeWhatley	The University of Texas at Austin	The Boards Creak: Executive Transition and Governance in Not-for-Profit Theatre Companies (2015-2023)
	Catherine	du Toit	Stellenbosch University, South Africa	Henri Pierre Roché: A Definitive Biography
	Grace	Dutt	University of Manchester	Paper Empire: Literature, the Travelers Cheque, and the Redescription of American Imperialism, 1891-1958
	Daniel	Eltringham	Bath Spa University	Translating Resistance: Latin America and the Poetry of the Transatlantic Avant-garde
	Carrie	Foulkes	University of Glasgow	Embodied Enquiry: Investigating intersections of body, language, movement and perception in Deborah Hay's practice
	Emma	Gagnon	University of California, Santa Barbara	“Picturing Indonesia in Amsterdam: The Printed Images of Johan Nieuhof's Remarkable Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies (1682)”
	Leslie	Geddes	Tulane University	Unknowable Shores: The Art and Science of Early Modern Navigation
	Veronica	Gonzalez Peña	Independent Scholar	Tina Modotti: The Seeing Eye
	Milan	Hain	Palacký University	David O. Selznick's Right-Hand Women: Female Administrative Staff and the Making of Films and Film Stars at Selznick International Pictures
	Cody	Jarman	University of Pikeville	Race Revivals: Whiteness, Politics, and the Human in the Irish Revival and Harlem Renaissance
	Brian	Jarvis	Loughborough University, United Kingdom	Don DeLillo and the Visual
	Michelle	Kelly	King's College London	The Imprisoned Writer in the International Imagination 1960-Present
	Peter C.	Kunze	Tulane University	Unsung: What Unproduced Musicals Tell Us About How Hollywood Operates
	Audrey	Leblanc	EHESS, Paris France	Visual Culture of the 1960s in USA. The New York Journal-American photographic morgue at the HCR and The Black Star Agency Collection
	Gerald R.	Lucas	Middle Georgia State University	“Norman Mailer's Short Fiction”
	Sophie	Maruejouls-Koch	Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès	Tennessee Williams: Poet-Painter, Volume 1: Cruising the Margins: The Mutability of Creation in Tennessee Williams's Paintings
	Paul	Mellenthin	University of Tübingen, DE	Images of the Paris Commune and the Franco Prussian War
	Ruchi	Nagpal	Jamia Millia Islamia	Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspective(s)
	Paul	O'Mahony	Independent Scholar	The Enigmatic Chorus: Twentieth Century Approaches and a Living Lab
	Sophie	Oliver	University of Liverpool	Unbuttoned: A Women's History of Modernism Told Through Clothes
	Dara	Orenstein	George Washington University	The Pope of Gen X: Don DeLillo and the Underworlds of Wall Street
	Ana	Parejo Vadillo	Birkbeck University of London	Poetry in Polygamy: The Fine and Lesser Arts in Michael Field
	R.D.	Perry	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Incompleteness in Chaucer and Lydgate
	Cathryn	Piwinski	Rutgers University	“Border Dwellings: Generic Exchange between Late-Twentieth-Century American Literary and Science Fiction”
	Chavan	Pramod R.	Maharaja Sayajirao University	East-West Encounter and Inter-Culturalism: Performing Shakespeare in Post-Colonial India in the Context of Performance Style and Aesthetics
	Jack	Quirk	Brown University	Sam Selvon's Language of Entitlement
	Luca	Raimondi	King's College London	Indian Ocean imaginaries and archipelagic networks in Indian anglophone fiction, 1950s-1970s
	M. C.	Rast	University of St. Thomas	“Origins and ideology of British and Irish fascism, 1910-1933”
	Nicole	Reinhardt	Leibniz Institut für europäische Geschichte Mainz	Friendship, Faith, and Natural Philosophy. The Accademia degli Oziosi (1563-1567) and the Beginning of the Counter Reformation in Bologna
	Claire	Richie	University of Miami	‘This printing blood’: Reproductive Materialities in Early Modern English Literature
	Ben	Robbins	University of Innsbruck	The Queer Exile Literature of Capri and Tangier from 1900 to 1969
	Joseph	Rosenberg	University of Notre Dame	“Undone: Late Modernism, Incompletion, and the Aesthetics of Failure”
	Lucy	Scholes	Independent Scholar	Kay Dick and Friends: A Biography of Literary Lives
	Oishani	Sengupta	The University of Texas at El Paso	Dark Empire: Racializing Africa in Indian Ocean Print Cultures
	Paul	Smith	University of California, Los Angeles	Reproducing Photography: Gender in the Photo-Secession
	Tim	Sommer	University of Passau / University of Oxford	Contemporary Authors' Papers: Self-Archiving and Institutional Collecting, 1990–2020
	Martin	Stollery	Independent Scholar	Oswell Blakeston, Late Modernism and Queer Cultural Production
	Arya	Sureshbabu	University of California, Berkeley	“Small Officiousnesses”: Minorness and Intimacy in Early Modern English Literature
	Jerrine	Tan	City University Hong Kong	Racial Capitalism and TechnoOrientalism in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun
	Nadeem Omar	Tarar	The University of Texas at Austin	Translating America: The Franklin Book Program in South Asia
	Victoria	Thoms	Coventry University	Discovering the Impact of Theatre Dance in Britain's Age of Catastrophe, 1908-1949
	Timothy	Wade	Pembroke College, University of Oxford	Over the Alps: Italian Books and the Northern Renaissance, c.1490-1550
	Emma	Watkins	The University of Texas at Austin	“My lonely half of a loony maybe-play”: a new play about Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood