Fellowships Awarded to 46 scholars

The Ransom Center has awarded 46 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation, and independent researchers. The selected projects span a wide breadth of collection materials and include topics such as predigital communication systems in the work of Caroline Herschel, the early Chinese translation and reception of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, forensic approaches to born-digital material, and an interdisciplinary exploration of race and religion through gospel hymns. See the table below for the full list of recipients.

Going on its 36^th year, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has supported more than 1,500 research projects requiring extensive onsite use of the Ransom Center’s collections. Original publications and outputs have included nonfiction books, audio projects, journal articles, doctoral theses, novels, and other creative work.

The Ransom Center fosters a supportive environment and sense of belonging for all researchers exploring and critiquing its collections. We strive for a program that exemplifies a genuine sense of fellowship to honor the community support that has perpetuated the Center’s growth. Fellows and visiting scholars receive opportunities to connect outside of the library/archive at weekly breakfast socials, regularly scheduled author readings, film screenings, and other gatherings. We also coordinate a monthly works-in-progress research series called Familiar Terms, which spotlights the creative process through various stages of work within the fellowship program.

Fellowships are available to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any career level, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists, for a period of one week to two months.

The 2025-26 fellows reflect the international range of the program—about half of whom live overseas—representing 13 countries and 13 US states. We are thrilled to welcome these scholars and learn their approaches to archival research.

	FIRST	LAST	AFFILIATION	PROJECT
	Florencia	Abbate	CONICET	The South American Chapter of Nancy Cunard's Life
	Santiago	Alarcón Tobón	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	The Cinephile Writer: Gabriel García Márquez and His Relationship with Cinema
	Tahoor	Ali	International Islamic University, Islamabad	Literature, Soft Power and the Cold War: A Cultural Study of Selected American Literature through Franklin Book Programs in Pakistan
	Lydia	Barnett	Northwestern University	Earth Work
	Chris M.	Blakley	Coppin State University	Somatic Plunder: Military-Scientific Networks and War Museology
	Veronica	Bremer	Leuphana University Lueneburg	Nancy Wilson Ross and the Bauhaus
	David	Bukszpan	Independent Scholar	True to the Words: The Lives and Times of Margaret and John Farrar
	Philippa	Burt	Goldsmiths, University of London	Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop: Striving for a Socialist Ensemble
	Matthew	Butler	University of Texas at Austin	Priest on the Run: Father Macario, Graham Greene, and Mexico
	Chase	Castle	University of Wisconsin-Madison	“The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Popular Culture in American Hymns”
	Jin-Woo	Choi	Harvard University	“The Dane Brought the Winter with Him”: Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway's Royal Visit to Venice
	Frank J.	Cirillo	Independent Scholar	"The Long Shadow of Abolitionism: The Ideological Legacy of the American Antislavery Movement, 1870-1920"
	Jean-Christophe	Cloutier	University of Pennsylvania	Posthumousness: Recovery and Restoration in American Letters
	Laurence	Cossu-Beaumont	Université Sorbonne Nouvelle	"Women of Letters, Women of Books: Pioneering Mediators & Professional Practices in the Transatlantic & Transamerican Circulations of Texts & Knowledge (1886-1983)"
	Natasha	Farrell	Memorial University	Star-Dust in Hollywood: Jan and Cora Gordon's Interwar Multimedia Portraits of America's Dream Factory
	Briand (Brinni)	Gentry	University of Michigan	Enchanting Otherworld at Empire's Edge: Hawai'i in Early 20th Century U.S. Popular Culture
	Ezra	Gerard	University of Wisconsin, Madison	The Origins of Desire: Childhood and the Birth of Modern Queer Identity in German and British Sexology, 1860-1919
	Mariangela	Giglio	University of Bologna	A Forensic Approach to Born Digital: The Gabriel García Márquez Collection
	Ardel	Haefele-Thomas	City College of San Francisco	"Queer and Trans Britain: Historic Documents, 1785-1918"
	Guy	Hansen	National Library of Australia	Views of the colonies: British Graphic satire in the age of Empire
	Rebecca	Hanssens-Reed	Washington University in St. Louis	Reanimating Translation: Margaret Sayers Peden, the Myth of Understanding, and the Death of a Craft
	Annie	Holt	University of Central Oklahoma	Lucy Barton: Constructing Costume Design
	J	Hughes	University of Toronto	“Into the Hands of Curious, Engaged Readers”: McSweeney's and the Experimental Narrative — Artists’ Book Connection
	Paul	Hutchinson	University of Bristol	A Little Piece of Land in His Head: Masculinities and Environmental Crisis in the Dust Bowl
	Mark Beatrice	Kaethler	Medicine Hat College	Editing Munday and Chettle's Robin Hood Plays
	Sondeep	Kandola	Liverpool John Moores University, UK	Selective Outrage: Censoring Oscar Wilde
	Jennifer	Kenyon	University of Bristol	Sound, Language, and the Self in the Work of Patrick Hamilton
	Amanda	Konkle	Georgia Southern University	The Men Who Adapted Marilyn Monroe
	Anwesha	Kundu	Centre College	"Troubled Loves: Assimilation in Anglophone Diasporas"
	Odile	Lehnen	Durham University and the Royal Society	Celestial Machines: Caroline Herschel, Astronomical Notebooks and the Material Culture of Predigital Communication Systems
	Patti	Loughlin	University of Central Oklahoma	Journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant and Memoir in the Modern American Southwest
	Malvika	Maheshwari	Ashoka University	National Akademies of Art and the Making of India’s Democracy: The Politics of Administering Aesthetics in Postcolonial India
	Brian	Murray	King's College London	Apocryphal Tales: The Victorian Novel of Martyrdom
	Emily	Needham	University of Virginia	A Global History of the Berlin Wall: Decolonization and Contested Discourses of Cold War Freedom and Human Rights
	Jonathan	O'Neill	The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	The Order of Chaeronea: A Secret Audio Drama
	Blake	Oetting	New York University	"Seminal Ink: Jean Cocteau's Erotic Drawing"
	Jessica	Page	The University of Sydney	"Self Insert and the Radical ‘I’: An Inquiry into the Anglophone Autofictional Turn"
	Lara	Palmqvist	Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas at Austin	To Map the Infinite: A Novel
	Ed	Pavlic	University of Georgia	No Time To Rest: James Baldwin's Several Lives
	Yunshu	Qiu 仇韵舒	University of Bristol	Through Eurasia and What Alice Found There: The Early Chinese Translation and Reception of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books
	Ipek	Sahinler	University of Texas at Austin	James Baldwin’s Overlooked Writership in Turkey, or Publishing from “Another Country”
	Josiah	Simon	Independent Scholar / Austin Waldorf School	Translation in Context: Broadening the Pedagogical Reach of the “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection.”
	Keri	Walsh	Fordham University	Shakespeare and Company
	Frans	Weiser	University of Georgia	Paradoxes of Inter-American Indigeneity: The Divergent Receptions of Peter Matthiessen’s and Hector Babenco’s At Play in the Fields of the Lord
	Molly G.	Yarn	Independent Scholar	The Remarkable Type: Women Printers and Revolutionary London
	Eunice	Yu	University of Oxford	Recrafting Mediality: The Networks of the Bertelli Publishing Dynasty